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President Barack Obama, center, arrives with Maj. Gen. Bradley A. Becker, right, for the wreath laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknowns, on Memorial Day, Monday, May 30, 2016, at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Obama says the U.S. must do more to care for its veterans and their families

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Smoke rises from Islamic State group positions after an airstrike by U.S.-led coalition warplanes in Fallujah, as Iraqi security forces and allied Shiite Popular Mobilization Forces and Sunni tribal fighters, take combat positions outside Fallujah, 40 miles (65 kilometers) west of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, May 23, 2016. Iraqi government forces on Monday pushed Islamic State militants out of some agricultural areas outside Fallujah as they launched a military offensive to recapture the city from the extremists, officials said. (AP Photo/Rwa Faisal)

Iraqi forces in place for final assault on Fallujah

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

Demonstrators chant pro-Islamic State group slogans as they wave the group's flags in front of the provincial government headquarters in Mosul, Iraq, on June 16, 2014. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

ISIS seeks to destroy Israel, ‘liberate’ Jerusalem with Sinai Peninsula terrorist force

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

Illustration on Iran's history of orchestrating Iraqi affairs by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

WESLEY MARTIN: Stopping Iran’s meddling in the Middle East

By Wesley Martin

In the near term, President Obama's move to add 250 U.S. troops to the 50 inserted in Syria should result in an accelerated process to assemble, train and advise a coalition of democratic forces fighting the Islamic State group. (Associated Press)

Bob Gates blasts Obama for deceiving public on role of combat troops in Iraq and Syria

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Iraqi counterterrorism soldiers raise an Iraqi flag on the ruins of a building near the provincial council headquarters in Ramadi on Dec. 27, 2015, during the offensive that freed the Iraqi city from nearly a year of rule by the Islamic State group. (Associated Press) **FILE**

U.S. airstrike in Iraq takes out pair of senior ISIS commanders

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

In this Feb. 17, 2016, file photo, former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden, center, speaks via video conference to people in the Johns Hopkins University auditorium in Baltimore. (AP Photo/Juliet Linderman, File)

Newsletters released from secretive National Security Agency

By Deb Riechmann - Associated Press

Iraqi flag

Sherzad Mamsani, Iraq leader: ‘I am a Kurd and a Jew’

By Loredana Vuoto - Catholic News Agency

Municipality workers clean up debris a day after a car bomb explosion in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, May 12, 2016. In the deadliest violence in Baghdad this year, three car bombs claimed by the Islamic State group killed and wounded dozens of civilians across the Iraqi capital Wednesday, demonstrating the extremists' ability to mount significant attacks despite major battlefield losses. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)

Strikes raise concern in U.S. fight against Islamic State

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

U.S. airstrike takes out ISIS ‘emir’ in Iraq

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

Iraq routed ISIS from Ramadi at a high cost: A city destroyed

By Susannah George, Desmond Butler and Maya Alleruzzo - Associated Press

President Barack Obama pauses as he speaks during a mock news conference with college students in the Brady Press Briefing Room in Washington, Thursday, April 28, 2016. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

PETE HEGSETH: Obama’s slow-drip Iraq strategy

By Pete Hegseth

In this April 28, 2016, file photo, Defense Secretary Ashton Carter testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Ashton Carter, defense secretary, says American killed in combat in Iraq

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

BOOK REVIEW: ‘The Envoy: From Kabul to the White House, My Journey Through a Turbulent World’

By Jacob Heilbrunn

This image made from video released by militants in Libya claiming loyalty to the Islamic State group purportedly shows Egyptian Coptic Christians in orange jumpsuits being led along a beach, each accompanied by a masked militant. Libyan officials found a mass grave on Dec. 23, 2018, with 34 Ethiopian Christians slain by ISIS terrorists in 2015. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Religious freedom under threat worldwide: U.S. report

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Civilians inspect the scene of car bombing at an open-air market selling fruit, vegetables and meat in Baghdad's southeast suburb of Nahrawan, Iraq, Saturday, April 30, 2016. (AP Photo/Ali Abdul Hassan)

Islamic State claims responsibility for Baghdad bombing that killed 21

By Susannah George - Associated Press

A man carries a child after airstrikes hit Aleppo, Syria, on Thursday. A Syrian monitoring group and a first-responders team say new airstrikes on the rebel-held part of the contested city of Aleppo have killed over a dozen people and brought down at least one residential building. (Associated Press)

Iran touts Israel invasion to recruit teenage boys to fight in Syria

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times