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LIVINGSTON: The high cost of ‘leading from behind’

By James E. Livingston and Michael S. Smith II

A woman inspects the site of a car bomb attack in front of the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research in central Baghdad on Sept. 18, 2013. More than 4,000 people have been killed since April, including more than 800 just in August, according to U.N. figures. (Associated Press)

Al Qaeda pushing Iraq toward civil war, ambassador says

By Ashish Kumar Sen - The Washington Times

Inside the Ring: Syria, Iraq and weapons of mass destruction

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

An Iraqi policeman stands guard outside the Sunni Al-Hassan Mosque in Basra, 340 miles (550 kilometers) southeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2013. Gunmen have shot dead over a dozen Sunnis in Iraq's Shiite-majority city of Basra over the past two weeks, following threats to retaliate against them for attacks on Shiites in other parts of Iraq, police and a Sunni community leader said. (AP Photo/ Nabil al-Jurani)

Wave of car bombs kills 23 in Baghdad

By Sameer N. Yacoub - Associated Press

Refugees from Syria entering Iraq at Peshkhabour, August 19,2013 Associated Press photo

SAUERBREY: Syria’s humanitarian crisis

By Ellen Sauerbrey

A police officer stands atop the wreckage of cars as citizens and security forces gather at the site of a car-bomb attack in Basra, Iraw, 340 miles southeast of Baghdad, on Sunday, Sept. 15, 2013. A new wave of insurgent attacks, mostly car bombings targeting Shiite-dominated cities in central and southern Iraq, killed and wounded scores of people, officials said. (AP Photo/Nabil al-Jurani)

Bombings kill 48 in south and central Iraq

By Sinan Salaheddin - Associated Press

** FILE ** Mourners grieve for a loss of a man killed Wednesday in a double bomb attack on a Shiite mosque while attending his funeral procession in Kasra neighborhood in northern Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Sept. 12, 2013. A suicide attacker staged a double bombing near a Shiite mosque in northern Baghdad as worshippers were leaving after evening prayers on Wednesday, according to Iraqi authorities. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

Funeral bomber kills 11 in Iraq with explosive belt

Associated Press

Members of a U.N. investigation team take samples from sand near a part of a missile that is likely to be a chemical-weapons rocket, according to activists, in the Damascus countryside of Ain Terma, Syria, on Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2013. (AP Photo/United Media Office of Arbeen) ** FILE **

Lack of mutual trust could kill Syria talks on chemical weapons

By Ashish Kumar Sen - The Washington Times

Mourners carry a coffin draped with an Iraqi flag of a man killed Wednesday in a double bomb attack on a Shiite mosque during a funeral procession in Kasra neighborhood in northern Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Sept. 12, 2013. A suicide attacker staged a double bombing near a Shiite mosque in northern Baghdad as worshippers were leaving after evening prayers on Wednesday, according to Iraqi authorities. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

Embassy Row: Spectator to slaughter in Iraq

By James Morrison - The Washington Times

Illustration by Linas Garsys for The Washington Times

DUNCAN: The courage to stay out of war

By John J. Duncan Jr.

Christopher Harper

HARPER: In Syria war debate, media are missing in action

By Christopher Harper

Rep. Tammy Duckworth, Illinois Democrat: "It's my responsibility as a member of Congress to make sure we don't commit resources, the most precious of which are our men and women in uniform, with no comprehensive plan for our involvement."

Majority of veterans in Congress leaning against Syria strike

By Jacqueline Klimas - The Washington Times

President Obama gestures while speaking during a Civil Society Roundtable with Russian gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender activists on Friday, Sept. 6, 2013, in St. Petersburg. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

What U.N.? Obama runs Bush playbook by assembling coalition of the willing

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

EDITORIAL: Code red, with embarrassment

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

** FILE ** Iraqi security forces enter through the main gate of Camp Ashraf in Khalis, northeast of Baghdad, Iraq, on Friday, Feb. 17, 2012. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

Embassy Row: Another massacre in Iraq?

By James Morrison - The Washington Times

In this photo released by the semiofficial Iranian Fars News Agency, a Saegheh ground-to-sea missile is launched by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards during a maneuver at the eastern part of Strait of Hormuz, a strategic oil route in southern Iran, on Sunday, April 25, 2010. Iran's state television says the country has fired a series of missiles as part of an ongoing large-scale military maneuvers in the Persian Gulf and Strait of Hormuz. (AP Photo/Fars News Agency, Mehdi Marizad)

Proxy war: A U.S. strike on Syria is a haymaker at Iran

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

James Carville (Associated Press) ** FILE **

James Carville: It’s Bush’s fault liberals aren’t backing Syria strike

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

HOLMES: Sorry history of the war powers debate

By Kim R. Holmes

Code Pink protesters bring their anti-war message to the Capitol before Wednesday's House hearing on President Obama's request for military intervention in Syria. (Associated Press)

Code Pink has a morale problem: It’s called Democrats

By Jacqueline Klimas - The Washington Times

GOP’s libertarian wing sees opportunity to push for less intervention

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times