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SALHANI: Countering Muslim extremists in Iraq

By Claude Salhani

Security forces patrol on Tahrir Square in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, June 16, 2014. Sunni militants captured a key northern Iraqi town along the highway to Syria early on Monday, compounding the woes of Iraq's Shiite-led government a week after it lost a vast swath of territory to the insurgents in the country's north. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

Sunni militants capture Iraqi city near Syria

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA and SAMEER N. YACOUB - Associated Press

Iraqis who have fled the violence in their hometown of Mosul unload their car at Khazir refugee camp outside of Irbil, 217 miles north of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday. (associated press)

Obama administration hints at alliance with Iran on Iraqi militants in policy reversal

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Demonstrators chant pro-al-Qaida-inspired Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) as they wave al-Qaida flags in front of the provincial government headquarters in Mosul, 225 miles (360 kilometers) northwest of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, June 16, 2014. Sunni militants captured a key northern Iraqi town along the highway to Syria early on Monday, compounding the woes of Iraq's Shiite-led government a week after it lost a vast swath of territory to the insurgents in the country's north. (AP Photo)

HUSAIN: Facebook refuses to take down ISIS terror group fan page

By Rahat Husain

** FILE ** The guided-missile destroyer USS Sterett (DDG 104) successfully launches its second Tomahawk missile during weapons testing. (U.S. Navy photo)

Rep. Ed Royce calls for drone strikes against Iraqi militants

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

This image posted on a militant website on Saturday, June 14, 2014, which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting, appears to show militants from the al-Qaida-inspired Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) taking aim at captured Iraqi soldiers wearing plain clothes after taking over a base in Tikrit, Iraq. The Islamic militant group that seized much of northern Iraq has posted photos that appear to show its fighters shooting dead dozens of captured Iraqi soldiers in a province north of the capital Baghdad. Iraq's top military spokesman Lt. Gen. Qassim al-Moussawi confirmed the photos’ authenticity on Sunday and said he was aware of cases of mass murder of Iraqi soldiers. (AP Photo via militant website)

ISIL militants slaughter 1,700 Iraqis in mass execution

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Shiite tribal fighters raise their weapons and chant slogans against the al-Qaida-inspired Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Basra, Iraq's second-largest city, 340 miles (550 kilometers) southeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, As the U.S. masses air power on Iraq's doorstep, analysts are warning that missiles and bombs will have limited impact on Islamic militants unless the Iraqi army stops running and starts fighting. (AP Photo/ Nabil Al-Jurani)

For any U.S. airstrike to succeed, the Iraqi army must stand and fight, experts say

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Rep. Mike Rogers, Michigan Republican. (Associated Press)

Mike Rogers: Iraqi terrorists could hit America: ‘This is as dangerous as it gets’

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

This image posted on a militant website on Saturday, June 14, 2014, which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting, appears to show militants from the al-Qaida-inspired Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) with truckloads of captured Iraqi soldiers after taking over a base in Tikrit, Iraq. (AP Photo via militant website)

Obama ignored general’s pleas to keep American forces in Iraq

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

Sen. Lindsey Graham said Sunday that the decision to withdraw U.S. forces from Iraq has made the chances for another 9/11-like attack on American soil "inevitable." (CBS News)

Sen. Lindsey Graham says a new 9/11 is ‘inevitable’

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

This image posted on a militant website on Saturday, June 14, 2014, which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting, appears to show militants from the al-Qaida-inspired Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) leading away captured Iraqi soldiers in plain clothes after taking over a base in Tikrit, Iraq. (AP Photo via militant website)

Criticism of Obama mounts as Islamists sweep through Iraq

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

** FILE ** This March 15, 2013, file photo shows former Massachusetts Gov., and 2012 Republican presidential candidate, Mitt Romney at the 40th annual Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, Md. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Romney on Iraq: ‘Bad things happen as a result of inaction’

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi

‘I’ll see you guys in New York’: Abu Bakr al Baghdadi’s parting words to U.S. troops in 2009

By Kellan Howell - The Washington Times

** FILE ** The USS George H.W. Bush aircraft carrier was commissioned on January 10, 2009. (U.S. Navy)

Hagel orders aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush to Persian Gulf

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**FILE** Sen. John McCain, Arizona Republican (Associated Press)

McCain calls for entire Obama national security team to be fired

By Jacqueline Klimas - The Washington Times

*FILE** A Predator B unmanned aircraft taxis at the Naval Air Station in Corpus Christi, Texas, on Nov. 8, 2011. (Associated Press)

U.S. upping drone missions in Iraq to combat insurgency

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

FILE - In this April 7, 2011, file photo, Rep. Michael Grimm, R-N.Y., center, accompanied by Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., left, House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy of Calif., speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. Grimm’s attorney stated on Friday, April 25, 2014, that federal prosecutors in New York plan on filing criminal charges against the lawmaker. Lawyer William McGinley said Grimm is innocent and called the federal probe into the former FBI agent-turned-politician “a politically driven vendetta.” (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

ISTOOK: Marine veteran Rep. Hunter says Obama squandered America’s victory in Iraq

By Ernest Istook