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Feds: 2 Texas men arrested on terrorism charges

By Nomaan Merchant - Associated Press

NAPOLITANO: When another Iraq war is pointless

By Andrew P. Napolitano

Supporters of anti-U.S. Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr wave Iraqi flags as they destroy a symbolic model of a U.S. Army tank during a rally marking the seventh anniversary of the fall of the Iraqi capital to American troops in the holy Shiite city of Najaf, Iraq, Friday, April 9, 2010.(AP Photo/Karim Kadim)

HARPER: In Iraq, truth is the first casualty of war

By Christopher Harper

FILE - In this Dec. 7, 2006 file photo reviewed by the U.S. Military, a U.S. soldier keeps watch from a guard tower overlooking Camp Delta detention center on Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base in Cuba. Lawyers for Guantanamo prisoners charged in the Sept. 11 attack say the FBI has questioned more people who work as support staff on their legal teams than previously disclosed, a development that may prompt a new detour in an already snarled case when the war crimes tribunal reconvenes Monday at the U.S. base in Cuba. A judge will consider a delay in the proceedings in a hearing on Monday, June 16, 2014. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File)

Al Qaeda suspect arraigned at Guantanamo Bay; Iraqi faces life in prison

By Ben Fox - Associated Press

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani gestures as speaks during a session of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Thursday, Jan. 23, 2014. Leaders gathered in the Swiss ski resort of Davos have made it a top priority to push to reshape the global economy and cut global warming by shifting to cleaner energy sources. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

O’DONNELL: Seeking Iran’s help in Iraq is a dangerous, foolish move

By Christine O'Donnell

TYRRELL: Dithering in Iraq

By R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: No Iraq aid that helps Iran

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

** FILE ** President Barack Obama walks across the South Lawn after exiting the Marine One helicopter on his return to the White House from a trip to Pittsburgh and New York City, Tuesday, June 17, 2014 in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Obama’s foreign policy favor with America falters: ‘This is a bad poll’ for him

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey listens on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, March 5, 2014, while testifying before the Senate Armed Services Committee hearing focusing on the Defense Department’s budget request for fiscal year 2015. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Two Iraqi divisions dissolved, Gen. Dempsey tells Senate panel

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

A U.S. Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcon takes off on a mission at dawn from Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, Feb. 11, 2014. The aircraft and crews at Bagram are prepared to fly 24 hours a day. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Master Sgt. Gary J. Rihn/Released) ** FILE **

Iraq formally asks U.S. for airstrikes against ISIL

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

File - In this Monday, Oct. 6, 2003 file photo, an abandoned watchtower and lines of barbed wire are seen surrounding Iraq's largest oil refinery as smoke rises from a petroleum gas flare, in the city of Beiji, north of Baghdad. On Wednesday, June 18, 2014, a top Iraqi security official said Islamic militants of the al-Qaida-inspired Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant laid siege to Iraq's largest oil refinery late Tuesday night, threatening a facility key to the country's domestic supplies as part of their ongoing lightning offensive across the country. The Beiji refinery accounts for a little more than a quarter of the country's entire refining capacity and any lengthy outage at Beiji risks long lines at the gas pump and electricity shortages, adding to the chaos already facing Iraq. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev, File)

ISIL fails to capture Iraq’s largest oil refinery

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

** FILE ** In this June 23, 2011, file photo, then-CIA Director-designate Gen. David Petraeus testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. Petraeus has resigned because of an extramarital affair. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)

Petraeus issues warning on Iraq: U.S. can not be ‘the air force for Shia militias’

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

** FILE ** In this Dec. 17, 2013, file photo, Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Sen. Tom Coburn says Obama missed chance to lead in fight against terrorists

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

In this Tuesday, June 17, 2014, image taken from video obtained from British Broadcaster Sky, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, Kurdish pehsmerga forces leave a vehicle, near Jalula, Iraq. (AP Photo/Sky via AP video)

DNC: Dick Cheney’s criticism of Obama foreign policy needs dose of reality

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

** FILE ** This May 14, 2014, file photo shows former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaking in Washington. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)

Hillary Clinton faults Iraq, not Obama, for U.S. troop pullout in 2011

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

President Barack Obama meets with, from left, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif., and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nev., in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, June 18, 2014. Obama briefed leaders of Congress on US options for blunting an Islamic insurgency in Iraq. US officials say Obama is not yet prepared to move forward with strikes and is instead focused on increased training for Iraq's security forces, boosting Iraqi intelligence capacities and upgrading equipment. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Obama, Congress mull Iraq options; GOP slams president’s waffling

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

FILE - In this May 28, 2014, file photo, Gen. Joseph Dunford, points during a news conference at the ISAF Headquarters in Kabul, Afghanistan. The top U.S. military commander in Afghanistan said the U.S. has increased its surveillance over the Afghan-Pakistani border, as Pakistan pounds a militant stronghold with airstrikes. (AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini, File)

General: U.S. hikes surveillance on Pakistan border

By LOLITA C. BALDOR - Associated Press

Photo illustration/The Washington Times

LAMBRO: Golfing while the world burns

By Donald Lambro