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In this Thursday, April 7, 2016, file photo, Vice President Joe Biden speaks at an event in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher) ** FILE **

Joe Biden makes unannounced visit to Iraq

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Defense Secretary Ashton Carter, testifying on Capitol Hill, was taken to task over the administration's characterization of anti-Islamic State operations in Syria and Iraq as a noncombat mission.

Ashton Carter, lawmakers clash over Iraq ‘war’ rhetoric

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Tuesday, July 8, 2014 file photo, an Iraqi refugee man who left his hometown of Mosul walks towards Irbil as he crosses a berm that separates Kurdish fighters and militants of the Islamic State group outside the northern city of Mosul, Iraq. An Iraqi military spokesman says the long-awaited military operation to recapture the northern city of Mosul from Islamic State militants &quot;has begun.&quot; The spokesman for the Joint Military Command, Brig. Gen. Yahya Rasool, says Iraqi forces retook several villages on the outskirts of the town of Makhmour, east of Mosul, on Thursday, March 24, 2016. (AP Photo, File)

Iraqis, Kurds nearly ready for fight to reclaim Mosul from ISIS: Pentagon

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

In this Thursday, April 14, 2016 photo, Smoke rises above a controlled land mine, which was detonated by Russian experts, in the ancient town of Palmyra in the central Homs province, Syria. Cluster munitions, land mines, and other unexploded ordinances are killing Syria's civil defense volunteers as they work to make battle-torn areas safe for civilians to return. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Russia ratchets up airstrikes against Syrian rebels

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Monday, April 4, 2016 file photo, people flee their homes during clashes between Iraqi security forces and Islamic State group in Hit, 85 miles (140 kilometers) west of Baghdad, Iraq. Families, many with small children and elderly relatives say they walked for hours Monday through desert littered with roadside bombs to escape airstrikes and clashes. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed, File)

U.S. airstrikes cost ISIS nearly $800M

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

Iraqi Security Forces guard the heavily fortified Green Zone on Tuesday as followers of Iraq's influential Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr demonstrate. (Associated Press)

Muqtada al-Sadr, Iraqi cleric, pressures Haider al-Abadi to reshuffle Cabinet

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Iraqi Christians pray during New Year's mass at the Chaldean Mar Gorges Church in Baghdad, Iraq. In Iraq's war-scarred capital, authorities closed commercial streets to vehicles in the city's center as a precaution against possible suicide bombings by militants of the Islamic State terror. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

French bishops travel to Iraq in support of Christian students

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U.S. President Barack Obama gestures during a press conference in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Thursday, April 21, 2016. Obama met with Saudi King Salman and attended a meeting of Gulf Arab heads of state of the six Gulf Cooperation Council countries during his two-day visit to the kingdom. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali)

Problems mount for Obama in Syria, Iraq

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Demonstrators chant pro-Islamic State 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**

U.S. offensive against ISIS costing $12M a day: Pentagon

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

U.S. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter reviews troops as he arrives for the closing ceremony of the 11-day joint U.S.-Philippines military exercise at Camp Aguinaldo in suburban Quezon city, Philippines, in this April 15, 2016, file photo. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez, File)

Ashton Carter arrives in Iraq for talks on how to beef up ISIS fight

By Lolita C. Baldor - Associated Press

In this April 14, 2016, file-pool photo, Defense Secretary Ashton Carter gestures during a news conference in Manila, Philippines. Carter said he will talk with his commanders in the coming days to identify more ways the U.S. can intensify the fight against Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria, including more airstrikes, cyberattacks, and American troops on the ground. (Romeo Ranoco/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Ashton Carter, Pentagon chief: U.S. eyes ways to step up Islamic State fight

By Lolita C. Baldor - Associated Press

President Obama was criticized for standing behind a podium instead of being seated behind the Resolute desk while addressing the nation from the Oval Office on Sunday night. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Obama to visit CIA as US weighs next steps on Islamic State

By JOSH LEDERMAN - Associated Press

In this April 9, 2016 photo, Kurdish peshmerga soldiers stand guard at a check point in Rabia, northwestern Iraq. When Iraqi Kurdish forces retook Rabia last year it was a major advance against the Islamic State group, which had swept across northern and western Iraq in the summer of 2014 and declared its caliphate across its territory in Iraq and Syria. Now 18 months later, the town demonstrates the difficulties of returning to the way things were before the IS rampage. (AP Photo/Alice Martins)

Pentagon: Successful military campaign against ISIS moving to ‘phase two’

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

"We have momentum, and we intend to keep that momentum," President Obama said of the Islamic State terrorist group, which also is known as ISIL and ISIS. "The ISIL core in Syria and Iraq continues to shrink. We are focused, and we are going to win." (Associated Press)

Obama hails ‘momentum’ in ISIS fight in Iraq, Syria

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Mums the word on Genocide Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

DOUGLAS BURTON: John Kerry silent on genocide in Iraq

By Douglas Burton

White House press secretary Josh Earnest on Monday said that the aftermath of the ouster of Libya's Moammar Ghadhafi informed President Obama's military decision-making on Syria. (Associated Press)

Obama learned lessons from Libya ‘mistake,’ White House says

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

A U.S. Air Force B-52 Stratofortress aircraft from Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana, arrive at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar, Saturday, April 9, 2016. The U.S. Air Force says it has deployed the bombers to take part in the U.S.-led bombing campaign against the Islamic State group. It is the first time the Cold War-era heavy bombers will be based in the region since the 1991 Gulf War, when they operated from neighboring Saudi Arabia. (Staff Sgt. Corey Hook/U.S. Air Force via AP)

U.S. deploys B-52 bombers to Middle East for the first time in 25 years

By Kellan Howell - The Washington Times

Secretary of State John Kerry acknowledges applause from U.S. Embassy staff members as he arrives to speak in Baghdad, Friday, April 8, 2016. (Jonathan Ernst/Pool Photo via AP)

John Kerry backs Iraqi leader; no planned increase in U.S. troops

By Bradley Klapper - Associated Press