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Iraqi soldiers donate blood for victims of military operations in Anbar Province at the journalists syndicate Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2014. Iraqi security forces and allies from Sunni tribes have been battling militants to recapture two key cities in Iraq's western Anbar province. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)

Iraqi army clashes with militants near Fallujah

By Qassim Abdul-Zahra - Associated Press

FILE - In this Wednesday, March 31, 2004 file photo, people chant anti-American slogans as charred bodies hang from a bridge over the Euphrates River in Fallujah, Iraq, west of Baghdad. Enraged Iraqis in this hotbed of anti-Americanism killed four foreigners Wednesday, and took the charred bodies from a burning SUV, dragged them through the streets, and hung them from the bridge. In 2014, the city's fall to al-Qaida-linked forces has touched a nerve for the service members who fought and bled there. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

Iraq War veterans mourn losses of hard-fought gains in Fallujah

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

White House press secretary Jay Carney listens at left, as White House National Economic Council Chairman Gene Sperling speaks during the daily briefing at the White House in Washington, Monday, Jan. 6, 2014. With Congress back, the Senate is expected to work on a three-month extension of benefits for the long-term unemployed. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

U.S. walks tightrope by handing arms to Shiite-led Iraq

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry speaks during a press conference at the David Citadel Hotel in Jerusalem on Sunday, Jan. 5, 2014. Kerry is heading to Jordan and Saudi Arabia to discuss his effort to broker peace between Israel and the Palestinians, yet his conversations with the U.S. allies will undoubtedly turn to other Mideast trouble spots. Kerry said Saturday that progress is being made in the Israeli-Palestinian talks, yet key hurdles are yet to be overcome. (AP Photo/Brendan Smialowski, Pool)

Report blames rising Iraqi unrest on Prime Minister al-Maliki

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

In this Sunday, Jan. 5, 2014 picture, a gunman holds a rocket-propelled grenade during clashes with Iraqi security forces in Fallujah, Iraq. Clashes continued late Sunday and early morning Monday between al-Qaida and Iraqi troops on the main highway that links the capital, Baghdad, to neighboring Syria and Jordan. Al-Qaida fighters and allied tribes are still controlling the center of the city where they are deployed in streets and around government buildings. (AP Photo)

GORDON: Al Qaeda retakes Fallujah; Obama frees cohorts from Gitmo

By J.D. Gordon

Old Ways: Iraqis have posted checkpoints along roads rather than adopting counterinsurgency practices as taught by U.S. forces, says an architect of the U.S. troop surge that reduced violence in Iraq by 90 percent and led to the military exodus ordered by President Obama in 2011. Trained Iraqi defense forces have since been unable to contain al Qaeda. (Associated Press photographs)

U.S. troops prevented from helping even as al Qaeda overruns Iraqi cities

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

Iraqi federal policemen search a car at a checkpoint in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Dec. 31, 2013. The Iraqi government has tightened its security measures after Iraqi police took down tents and cleared a Sunni sit-in in a flashpoint western city after protesters there agreed to end their months-long demonstration following talks with the Shiite-led government, an official said Monday. Clashes nearby that reportedly left almost a dozen dead, however, were a reminder of how the protest movement has often fueled armed campaigns by insurgent groups against the authorities. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)

U.N.: Iraq sees highest annual death toll in years

By Sinan Salaheddin - Associated Press

This undated photo released Thursday, May 30, 2013 by aerospace technology company Northrop Grumman shows the RQ-4 Block 20 Global Hawk unmanned aircraft that students in the University of North Dakota aviation program will learn to fly. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Northrup Grumman)

Iraq requests U.S. drones, missiles to thwart al Qaeda attacks

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

This undated photo provided by Iraqi government intelligence officials on Wednesday, Dec. 25, 2013 shows Nusra Front leader Abu Mohammed al-Golani. Iraqi intelligence officials that the shadowy leader of the powerful al-Qaida group fighting in Syria has sought to kidnap United Nations workers. The officials say they obtained the information about al-Golani, after capturing members of another al-Qaida group and that men gave them the first known photograph of al-Golani and letters written by the militant leader. (AP Photo/Iraqi Government)

Al Qaeda leader targeting U.N. workers in Syria

By Qassim Abdul-Zahra - Associated Press

An Iraqi Christian woman lights candles before a Christmas mass at the Mother Teresa Catholic Church in Basra, Iraq's second-largest city, 340 miles (550 kilometers) southeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, Dec 25, 2013. Militants on Wednesday launched two separate attacks against Christians in Baghdad, killing more than a dozen people, officials said. (AP Photo/Nabil al-Jurani))

Christmas Day bombings in Iraq’s capital kill 37

By Sinan Salaheddin - Associated Press

A Syrian government solider aims his weapon during clashes with Free Syrian Army fighters (not pictured) in the ancient, predominantly Christian village of Maaloula, Syria, northeast of the capital, Damascus, on Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2013. Heavy fighting flared as government troops tried to flush out rebel units, including two that are linked to al Qaeda, from the hilltop enclave that they broke into last week. (AP Photo/SANA)

U.S. adds al Qaeda-linked Lebanon militant leader to global terrorist list

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Syria has become a focal point for the State Department in the war on terrorism as al Qaeda-linked groups operating there — specifically the al-Nusrah Front — have expansionist aspirations. (Aleppo Media Center AMC via Associated Press)

State Department adds two to terrorist list, notes al Qaeda splits

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

An Iraqi man inspects vehicles damaged in a car bomb attack in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Dec. 16, 2013. Iraqi officials say bombings in and around Baghdad have killed and wounded tens of people. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)

Wave of attacks kill 65 people in Iraq

By Sameer N. Yacoub - Associated Press

** File ** Syrian rebels attend a training session in Maaret Ikhwan, near Idlib, Syria, Dec 17, 2012. (Associated Press)

Suicide central: Syria a magnet for youth seeking ‘death as a path to life’

By Karin Laub and Mohammed Daraghmeh - Associated Press

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Embassy Row: Hostage location classified

By James Morrison - The Washington Times

BOOK REVIEW: ‘Civilian Warriors’

By Gary Anderson - Special to The Washington Times