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Moderator Lester Holt, anchor of NBC Nightly News, asks a question of Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton during the presidential debate Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump at Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y., Monday, Sept. 26, 2016. (Joe Raedle/Pool via AP)

Lester Holt the Media Molester and Hillary’s ever-evolving ‘convictions’

By Charles Hurt

The helicopter carrying U.S. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter arrives on the French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle in the Persian Gulf Saturday, Dec. 19, 2015. The American airstrike that may have killed a number of Iraqi soldiers on Friday seems to be &quot;a mistake that involved both sides,&quot; Carter said Saturday. He called Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi to express condolences. (AP Photo/Lolita Baldor)

Officials: US to send more troops to Iraq to help with Mosul

By JOSH LEDERMAN and ROBERT BURNS - Associated Press

Defense Secretary Ashton Carter. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

U.S. deploys more troops to Iraq for showdown with ISIS

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

Iraqi Muslims pray at a mosque in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2015. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)

Iraq opens new antiquities museum in Basra

By SINAN SALAHEDDIN - Associated Press

First responders work near the scene of an explosion in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood on Sept. 17 in New York. Although the pressure cooker bomb that wounded over two dozen people on the street went off in front of an apartment building for the blind, none of the building's residents were hurt in the blast. (Associated Press)

Homegrown terrorists to target concerts, sporting events, DHS warns

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

President Barack Obama speaks at the 2016 White House Tribal Nations Conference held in the Mellon Auditorium in Washington, Monday, Sept. 26, 2016. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Another useless Iraq surge

By Jed Babbin

FILE - The sun sets as women visit a Yazidi shrine overlooking at Kankhe Camp for the internally displaced in Dahuk, northern Iraq, in this Wednesday, May 18, 2016 file photo. Lawyers in Europe investigating the Islamic State’s elaborate operation to kidnap thousands of women as sex slaves say they have enough evidence to try IS leaders with crimes against humanity, but two years after the IS onslaught against the Yazidi people, the Obama administration has made little effort to pursue prosecution. Current and former U.S. State Department officials say that a push for a legal finding of genocide in late 2014 was quashed by the Defense Department. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo, File)

War crimes tribunal for IS detainees lacks support

By DESMOND BUTLER and LORI HINNANT - Associated Press

FILE - The sun sets as women visit a Yazidi shrine overlooking at Kankhe Camp for the internally displaced in Dahuk, northern Iraq, in this Wednesday, May 18, 2016 file photo. Lawyers in Europe investigating the Islamic State’s elaborate operation to kidnap thousands of women as sex slaves say they have enough evidence to try IS leaders with crimes against humanity, but two years after the IS onslaught against the Yazidi people, the Obama administration has made little effort to pursue prosecution. Current and former U.S. State Department officials say that a push for a legal finding of genocide in late 2014 was quashed by the Defense Department. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo, File)

War crimes tribunal for IS detainees lacks support

By DESMOND BUTLER and LORI HINNANT - Associated Press

Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Joseph Dunford testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 22, 2016, before the Senate Armed Services Committee hearing. Dunford and Defense Secretary Ash Carter faced sharp questions from Republicans angry that the Obama administration is not taking more aggressive steps to end the 5-year-old-civil war in Syria. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Islamic State launches chemical attack against U.S., Iraqi forces, Pentagon confirms

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally, Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2016, in Toledo, Ohio. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

Why neoconservatives don’t like Donald Trump

By Daniel Gallington

Donald Trump advocates "extreme vetting" of immigrants from predominantly Muslim nations to weed out potential terrorists, coupled with aggressive coalition military operations in the Middle East. (Associated Press)

Donald Trump vows to ramp up aggression in ISIS fight, ‘bomb the s—-‘ out of extremists

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

"This is something that's new in this war, not something you would've seen back in the Gulf War, but it's an important new capability, and it is an important use of our Cyber Command and the reason that Cyber Command was established in the first place," Defense Secretary Ashton Carter told reporters about fighting the Islamic State. (Associated Press)

Obama launches first cyberwar against ISIS, cuts recruiting by 75 percent

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

Confusion remains amid sectarian, ethnic and religious rivalries as to who will take control of Mosul after Iraqi and American forces liberate the city from Islamic State. (Associated Press)

Mosul campaign crucial in ISIS fight with Obama set to leave behind unfinished war

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

Former mayor of New York CIty Rudy Giuliani, wears a "Make Mexico Great Again Also" hat prior to Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's speech during a campaign rally at the Phoenix Convention Center, Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2016, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Matt York)

Ex-NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani on securing Iraqi oil: ‘Of course it’s legal, it’s a war’

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

U.S. and Iraqi officials cast Ramadi as proof that coalition training efforts have paid off and the Iraqi military has improved since its catastrophic collapse in the summer of 2014. But some analysts say the fight that wrested the city from the Islamic State group highlights the military's lingering shortcomings and isn't a model for trying to retake Mosul. (Associated Press)

U.S. special operations troops in ISIS fight frustrated with limited role

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

Donald Trump reiterated that he has his own plan to defeat the Islamic State, but will listen to the advice of generals once elected. Those generals, he added, have been marginalized by the Obama administration. (Associated Press)

Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton declare each other unfit to serve as commander in chief

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

The Islamic State group received bomb-making supplies from private Turkish companies, a former counterterrorism official said. (Associated Press/File)

IS loss of border area with Turkey sharply harms group

By BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick (7) stands on the sideline during the second half of an NFL football game against the Green Bay Packers in Santa Clara, Calif., Sunday, Oct. 4, 2015. The Packers won 17-3. (AP Photo/Ben Margot) **FILE**

Colin Kaepernick’s point in sitting during anthem deserves consideration

By Deron Snyder