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** FILE ** Sgt. Theresa Lynn Flannery sprints during an attack in April, 2004 near Najaf, Iraq. Her fellow soldiers used a wall for cover. (Associated Press)

VA failing to meet female veterans’ needs despite $1.3B investment since 2008

By Garance Burke - Associated Press

Defending: An Iraqi Shiite tribal fighter deploys outside Najaf on Sunday as Sunni militants capture towns and border crossings with Jordan and Syria. (Associated Press)

Obama feels heat of combusting Iraq

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Inside the Beltway: Still no winner in the Iraq blame game

By Jennifer Harper - The Washington Times

This Friday, June 20, 2014, file photo shows Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., speaking at the Faith and Freedom Coalition's Road to Majority event in Washington. (AP Photo/Molly Riley, File)

Rand Paul: We will make Hillary Clinton answer for Benghazi

By Jennifer Pompi - The Washington Times

** FILE ** President Obama speaks on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, June 13, 2014. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

Obama rejects ‘whack-a-mole’ strategy to counter extremists in Middle East

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Former Vice President Dick Cheney speaks on "Fox News Sunday" on June 16, 2013. (Associated Press/Fox News) **FILE**

Cheney on Middle East: ‘We’ve got a hell of a problem’

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Iraqi federal policemen stand guard at a checkpoint in Baghdad, Iraq. Tensions in the country have heated up as the extremist ISIL group has allied with more moderate, secular Sunni militant groups, many of whom are not even targets of U.S. operations. (associated press)

Sunni secularists blur picture of ISIL; targets for airstrikes hard to see

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

U.S. Senator John McCain, R-Ariz., responds to a reporter's question on Iraq during a media availability after he delivered an evening lecture at the U.S. Naval War College Thursday, June 12, 2014 in Newport, RI. McCain delivered a blistering assessment of the U.S response to the developing military situation in Iraq from the Senate floor earlier today. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia)

McCain: Todd’s hot mic comments ‘should be embarrassing for MSNBC’

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

Members of the Iraqi security forces who have never left their positions stand guard at the entrance checkpoint of the Bansher district, 15 kilometers (9.3 miles) south of the oil-rich city of Kirkuk, Iraq, Friday, June 20, 2014. The poster at left shows Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Malik. Iraqi army and police forces battling them for months have been unable to take most areas back, and over the past week or so the militants have also taken over the cities of Mosul and Tikrit. (AP Photo/Emad Matti)

Top Shiite cleric calls for new government in Iraq

Associated Press

** FILE ** President Obama speaks on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, June 13, 2014. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

Obama: ‘We gave Iraq the chance to have an inclusive democracy’

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

President Barack Obama pauses while speaking about the situation in Iraq, Thursday, June 19, 2014, in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington. Obama said the US will send up to 300 military advisers to Iraq, set up joint operation centers. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

GOP-led House backs limits on Obama’s authority

By Donna Cassata - Associated Press

Sen. John McCain has suggested David Petraeus be put in charge of a new national security team to deal with Islamic militants in Iraq. (associated press)

White House reporters caught on tape mocking John McCain

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

An al-Qaida-inspired militant stand guard at a checkpoint captured from the Iraqi Army outside Beiji refinery, some 250 kilometers (155 miles) north of Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, June 19, 2014. The fighting at Beiji comes as Iraq has asked the U.S. for airstrikes targeting the militants from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. While U.S. President Barack Obama has not fully ruled out the possibility of launching airstrikes, such action is not imminent in part because intelligence agencies have been unable to identify clear targets on the ground, officials said.(AP Photo)(AP Photo)

Obama to address Iraq situation on Thursday

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

A column of smoke rises from an oil refinery in Baiji, 155 miles north of Baghdad, on Thursday. Sunni Muslim extremists who have taken over large portions of northern Iraq have shown their willingness to use oil supplies as a weapon. (Associated Press)

U.S. oil flow helps keep prices in check as threats rise overseas

By Patrice Hill - The Washington Times

Iraqi Army soldiers parade inside the main army recruiting center during a recruiting drive for men to volunteer for military service in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, June 19, 2014, after authorities urged Iraqis to help battle insurgents. The campaign by the al-Qaida-inspired Islamic State militants has raised the specter of the sectarian warfare that nearly tore the country apart in 2006 and 2007, with the popular mobilization to fight the insurgents taking an increasingly sectarian slant, particularly after Iraq's top Shiite cleric made a call to arms on Friday. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)y the country's top Shiite cleric to join the fight against Sunni militants advancing in the north. (AP Photo/ Karim Kadim)

Talking about Iraq? Why you should say ‘ISIL’ - not “ISIS’

By Jennifer Harper - The Washington Times

During a commencement address to West Point cadets last month, Mr. Obama called on Congress to fund a new $5 billion counterterrorism plan to "train, build capacity and facilitate partner countries on the front lines" of the war on terror. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)

Congress in dark on counterterror plan before Obama speech at West Point

By Kelly Riddell - The Washington Times

Volunteers in the newly formed "Peace Brigades" participate in a parade near the Imam Ali shrine in the southern holy Shiite city of Najaf, Iraq, Thursday, June 19, 2014, after called for by the radical Shiite cleric Muqtatda al-Sadr to form brigades to protect Shiite holy shrines against possible attacks by Sunni militants. (AP Photo/Jaber al-Helo)

Obama to send 300 special ops forces to Iraq

By Dave Boyer and Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Thursday, Dec. 5, 2013 file photo, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki meets with Iran's former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani in Tehran, Iran. Iraqi security forces battled insurgents targeting the country's main oil refinery and claimed to regain partial control of a city near the Syrian border Wednesday, trying to blunt a weeklong offensive by militants who diplomats fear may have abducted some 100 foreign workers. Al-Maliki, meanwhile, struck an optimistic tone after soldiers abandoned their posts in the wake of the initial offensive, promising his nation would teach the attackers a "lesson." "We have now started our counteroffensive, regaining the initiative and striking back," al-Maliki said. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)

U.S. lawmakers growing weary of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

Former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney. (AP Photo/Olivia Harris, Pool, File)

Cheney rips Obama’s foreign policy, blames him for mess in Iraq

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times