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Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida favors a more aggressive U.S. military campaign to combat Islamic militants in Iraq. (Associated Press)

ISIL’s rise forces GOP 2016 hopefuls to weigh in on intervention

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

The DOJ has accused four men of stealing $100 million worth of information from Microsoft Corporation and simulator software used to train Apache attack helicopter pilots. (U.S. Army photo by CW4 Daniel McClinton, 1-227th, 1st ACB, 1st Cav. Div. Public Affairs)

Apache attack helicopters deployed to protect U.S. Embassy in Baghdad

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

This undated image posted by the Raqqa Media Center, a Syrian opposition group, on Monday, June 30, 2014, which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting, shows fighters from the al Qaeda linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) during a parade in Raqqa, Syria. (AP Photo/Raqqa Media Center)

ISIL vows conquest of Rome: ‘Soldiers of the Islamic State, fight, fight!’

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki offered amnesty to those who renounce Islamic extremists. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban, File)

Al-Maliki’s mea culpa: Amnesty announced if Sunni tribes ‘return to their senses,’ renounce ISIL

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

Kurdish Peshmerga fighters take their position along the front line with militants from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. Demonstrating their growing independence from the rest of Iraq, the largely autonomous Kurdish regional government is setting up dirt barriers that it hopes ultimately will set the borders of a future state. (Associated Press)

Iraqi Kurds seek independence but with voice in Baghdad

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Hellfire II missiles. (Image: Lockheed Martin)

Obama sells Hellfire: White House hopes to send 4K missiles to Iraq for ISIL fight

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

This undated image posted by the Raqqa Media Center, a Syrian opposition group, on Monday, June 30, 2014, which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting, shows fighters from the al Qaeda linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) during a parade in Raqqa, Syria. (AP Photo/Raqqa Media Center)

ISIL mocks Obama: ‘Did you prepare enough diapers for your soldiers?’

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

US Marine MP Lance Cpl. Joel Swenson attached to 1st Marines 4th Marine Division directs Baghdad citizens away from convoy routes near the Diyala River in Baghdad, Iraq Wednesday, April 9, 2003. ( J.M. Eddins Jr. / The Washington Times )

Ben Rhodes lays out scenarios for U.S. military engagement in Iraq

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Illustration on Iraq chaos by De Angelis, Rome Italy/CartoonArts International

HANSON: Obama wants out of the Middle East

By Victor Davis Hanson

Kurdish Soldier Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

LYONS: A Kurdish opportunity

By James A. Lyons

**FILE** This undated photo released Oct. 31, 2010, by Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Interior purports to show Ibrahim Hassan al-Asiri. (Associated Press/Saudi Arabia Ministry of Interior)

ISIL recruits ‘underwear bomb’ creator: Ibrahim Hassan al-Asiri pledges allegiance to terrorist army

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

**FILE** Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington on June 25, 2014, before the Senate Committee hearing to examine the Financial Stability Oversight Council annual report to Congress. (Associated Press)

Lew: World markets can handle Iraq oil disruptions

By Meghan Drake - The Washington Times

This undated image posted by the Raqqa Media Center, a Syrian opposition group, on Monday, June 30, 2014, which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting, shows fighters from the al Qaeda linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) during a parade in Raqqa, Syria. (AP Photo/Raqqa Media Center)

CIA blamed for Iraq intel failure, ISIS rise

By Bill Gertz - Washington Free Beacon

** FILE ** In this Friday, March 26, 2010, file photo, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki speaks to the press in Baghdad, Iraq. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban, File)

Iraq convenes lawmakers to forge unity government to fight caliphate

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

President Barack Obama walks from the Oval Office to the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Monday, June 30, 2014, to make a statement on immigration reform. The president said he's done waiting for House Republicans to act on immigration. He says he now plans to act on his own. Obama announced his intention Monday to take executive action. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Obama sends more troops to Baghdad for embassy protection

By Maggie Ybarra and Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Israelis light candles as they gather in Jerusalem after the announcement that the bodies of the three missing teenagers were found near the West Bank town of Hebron, late Monday, June 30, 2014. The Israeli military found the bodies of three missing teenagers on Monday, just over two weeks after they were abducted in the West Bank, allegedly by Hamas militants. The grisly discovery culminated a feverish search that led to Israel's largest ground operation in the Palestinian territory in nearly a decade and raised fears of renewed fighting with Hamas. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was huddling with his Security Cabinet late Monday to discuss a response. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

CROWLEY: The ‘gates of hell’ ajar in the Middle East between Israel and Hamas

By Monica Crowley - The Washington Times

Exiled Iranians gathered in Villepinte, France, to listen to Maryam Rajavi, the leader of the National Council of Resistance of Iran. (Associated Press)

Rally of strange bedfellows : To change Iran, U.S. group backs former ‘terrorists’

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Al-Baghdadi

ISIL declares Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi its jihadist ‘caliph’

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

FILE - In this July 19, 2004 file photo USMC Cpl. Wassef Ali Hassoun prepares himself as he waits to make a statement to a large crowd of media outside the gates to USMC Base Quantico, Va. Nearly 10 years ago Hassoun was declared a deserter after allegedly faking his own kidnapping in Iraq, then reappeared and was to face charges. But he disappeared again in 2005, has now turned himself in to U.S. authorities, and is being flown to the U.S. Sunday, June 29, 2014, from an undisclosed Mideast location. Once at Camp Lejeune, the commander of the 2nd Marine Expeditionary Force will determine whether to court-martial him. (AP Photo/Dylan Moore, File)

Marine who disappeared in Iraq in 2004 back in U.S.

By ROBERT BURNS - Associated Press

This undated file image posted on a militant website on Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2014, which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting, shows fighters from the al Qaeda-linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) marching in Raqqa, Syria. (AP Photo/Militant Website, File)

Iraq sends in helicopter gunships, launches operation to take back Tikrit from ISIL

By Qassim Abdul-Zahra and Sameer N. Yacoub - Associated Press