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U.S. soldiers (left) participate in a training mission with Iraqi army soldiers outside Baghdad on May 27, 2015. (Associated Press) **FILE**

As army rebuilds, Iraqi assault to retake Mosul months away

By SUSANNAH GEORGE and QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA - Associated Press

In this undated photo released online in the summer of 2014 on a militant social media account, which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting, militants of the Islamic State group hold up their weapons and wave its flags on their vehicles in a convoy on a road leading to Iraq, in Raqqa, Syria. (Militant photo via AP, File)

Special Ops forces capture first ISIS operative in Iraq

By Kellan Howell - The Washington Times

Donald Trump: ‘I don’t know’ if George W. Bush lied in run-up to Iraq

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

Illustration on the reasons behind Saddam Hussien's WMD deception by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

RONALD KESSLER: Behind Saddam Hussein’s deception

By Ronald Kessler

U.S. Sen Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., speaks to the media before the CBS News Republican presidential debate at the Peace Center, Saturday, Feb. 13, 2016, in Greenville, S.C. Graham spoke about the death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia who died today at 79. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)

Lindsey Graham dubs Donald Trump a ‘Michael Moore Republican’ over George W. Bush criticism

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg speaks during a media conference at NATO headquarters in Brussels on Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2016. NATO and the European Union have signed an agreement to improve cooperation in cyberdefense, which NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg called a concrete example of the two Brussels-based organizations joining forces to counter modern forms of hybrid warfare. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

BRUCE FEIN: Military-industrial-terrorism complex turning failure into triumphs

By Bruce Fein

Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau answers a question as he is joined by Minister of National Defense Harjit Sajjan, left to right, Minister of International Development and La Francophonie Marie-Claude Bibeau and Minister of Foreign Affairs Stephane Dion during a news conference at the National Press Theatre in Ottawa on Monday, Feb. 8, 2016. (Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press via AP) MANDATORY CREDIT

Canada to end airstrikes against Islamic State group shortly

By CHARMAINE NORONHA - Associated Press

People carry a body of one of the migrants that drowned as they were trying to reach Greece, at a port in Bakilesir, Turkey, on Feb. 8, 2016. Turkey's state-run news agency says dozens of migrants attempting to reach Greece have drowned after their boat sank off the Turkish coast. The boat capsized in the Bay of Edremit, which is just a short distance away from the Greek island of Lesbos. The drownings came as Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel is visiting Ankara to discuss the migrant crisis with Turkish officials. (Ayhan Avci/Cihan News Agency via AP)

At least 35 migrants die as boats capsize off Turkey

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

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 **

U.S. struggling to build anti-Islamic State strategy in Libya

By ROBERT BURNS and JOSH LEDERMAN - Associated Press

In this Sunday, Jan. 24, 2016, photo, a malnourished child lies in a bed waiting to receive treatment at a therapeutic feeding center in a hospital in Sanaa, Yemen. This child is one of millions of people across countries like Syria, Yemen and Iraq are gripped by hunger, struggling to survive with little help from the outside world. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)

In Mideast wars, hunger grips millions across the region

By Zeina Karam - Associated Press

Ras Lanuf is home to oil refineries and storage facilities in Libya. Islamic State militants on Monday set a storage tank ablaze as they pushed eastward into the "oil crescent." (Associated Press)

BRUCE FEIN: Architects of Libya fiasco should be pilloried

By Bruce Fein

FILE - In this Sunday, Jan. 24, 2016 file photo, American and Spanish trainers use live ammunition in training exercises at Basmaya base, 40 kilometers southeast of Baghdad, Iraq. 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 analysts and former US trainers 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 the bigger prize, the IS-held city of Mosul. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim, File)

Iraq’s military is still struggling despite U.S. training

By SUSANNAH GEORGE - Associated Press

A worker walks on the rubble of a food factory destroyed by Saudi-led airstrikes in Sanaa, Yemen, Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2016. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed) ** FILE **

Pentagon to admit 15 civilian casualties, 14 injuries in ISIS airstrikes: report

By Kellan Howell - The Washington Times

FILE - This undated file image posted on a militant website on Jan. 14, 2014, which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting, shows fighters from the al-Qaida linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) marching in Raqqa, Syria. slamic State militants are barricading down for a possible assault on their de facto capital Raqqa, hiding among civilian homes and preventing anyone from fleeing, as international airstrikes intensify on the Syrian city in the wake of the Paris attacks. For many, the threat of missiles and bombs from the enemies of Islamic State is more of an immediate threat than the vicious oppression of the jihadis&#8217; themselves. (AP Photo/Militant Website, File)

Islamic State cuts its fighters’ pay in half: Report

By Kellan Howell - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Nov. 7, 2008, file photo, U.S. Army soldiers tour St. Elijah's Monastery on Forward Operating Base Marez in Mosul, Iraq, about 360 kilometers (225 miles) northwest of Baghdad. St. Elijah&#8217;s has officially joined a growing list of more than 100 demolished religious and historic sites, including mosques, tombs, shrines and churches. The Islamic State group has defaced or ruined ancient monuments in Nineveh, Palmyra and Hatra. Museums and libraries have been looted, books burned, artwork crushed. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo, File)

U.S. airstrike on Mosul banks kills Iraqi civilians

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

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

U.N. report: Iraqi civilians dying at a ‘staggering’ rate

By SUSANNAH GEORGE - Associated Press

In this Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2016 file photo, a wounded civilian is treated by Iraqi security forces after he was shot by Islamic State group fighters as he was trying to cross from neighborhoods under control of Islamic State group to neighborhoods under control of Iraqi security forces in Ramadi, 70 miles (115 kilometers) west of Baghdad, Iraq. (AP Photo)

U.N. report says nearly 19,000 civilians in Iraq were killed in under 2 years

Associated Press

This still image made from video released by the U.S. Central Command on Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2014, shows a structure in Tall Al Qitar, Syria moments after a U.S. airstrike. In three waves of nighttime attacks launched over four hours early on Tuesday, the U.S. and its Arab partners made more than 200 airstrikes against roughly a dozen militant targets in Syria. (AP Photo/US Central Command)

Obama too cautious in bombing ISIS, former war planners say

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times