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Smoke believed to be from an airstrike billows over the northern Iraqi town of Sinjar on Thursday, Nov. 12, 2015. Kurdish Iraqi fighters, backed by the U.S.-led air campaign, launched an assault Thursday aiming to retake the strategic town of Sinjar, which the Islamic State overran last year in an onslaught that caused the flight of tens of thousands of Yazidis and first prompted the U.S. to launch airstrikes against the militants. (AP Photo/Bram Janssen)

Iraqi Kurds reach Sinjar road, cutting Islamic State supply line

By Bram Janssen and Susannah George - Associated Press

Smoke believed to be from an airstrike billows over the northern Iraqi town of Sinjar on Thursday, Nov. 12. Kurdish Iraqi fighters, backed by the U.S.-led air campaign, launched an assault Thursday aiming to retake the strategic town of Sinjar, which the Islamic State overran last year in an onslaught that caused the flight of tens of thousands of Yazidis and first prompted the U.S. to launch airstrikes against the militants. (Associated Press)

Kurds seize Sinjar, city in northern Iraq, from Islamic State’s clutches

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

Yazidis are asking for the Russian military to liberate more than 3,500 Yazidis held captive by the Islamic State, including children in jihadi training camps. They say the young hostages are subjected to "mental conditioning" and being trained as Islamists. (Saad Barkash)

Iraqi Yazidis turn to Russia as West fails to stop Islamic State

By Douglas Burton — Special to The Washington Times

Syrian President Bashar Assad is keeping his hold on power with the help of Russia, with various factions fighting to overthrow him. (Associated Press)

Moderate Democrats pleading with Obama for decisive plan to beat Islamic State

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

In this photo released on March 7, 2015 by a militant website, which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting, a member of the Islamic State group holds the IS flag as he dismantles a cross on the top of a church in Mosul, Iraq. (Militant website via AP)

Christians in fight against ISIS blocked from weapons, equipment by D.C. lobbyists

By Barbara Boland

American Pastor Bill Devlin (far right) sits with three Yazidi girls who retold the terrible ordeal of the killing and raping of their family and Iraqi village. The girls were rescued.

FAITH UNDER FIRE: Sinjar, Iraq,Yazidi teens escape ISIS

By Bill Devlin

Sunni volunteer fighters parade through Khalidiya, Iraq, as they prepare to support Iraqi security forces in liberating the city of Ramadi from Islamic State militants on Oct. 10, 2015. (Associated Press)

Obama administration maintains hope for ‘Sunni Awakening 2.0’ in Islamic State fight

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Illustration on ISIS persecution of Christians in Iraq by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

For Christians in Syria and Iraq, what now?

By Elise Harris and Kevin Jones - Catholic News Agency

Tech Sgt. Aaron D. Allmon II, an award-winning combat photographer, stands accused of trying to pick up women in the public affairs office at Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota. For that, prosecutors wanted to put him in prison for 130 years. (Associated Press)

Aaron Allmon case makes Minot Air Force Base ground zero in military’s new gender wars

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

Polls suggest American voters are increasingly wary of the Obama administration's response to the wars in Syria, Iraq and Libya, which have killed more than a quarter-million people and spawned a vast refugee crisis stretching into Europe during recent years. (Associated Press)

Obama pushes military frustration to highest level in decades

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Rafale jet fighters of the French navy sit on the deck of the French nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle in the Mediterranean Sea on Wednesday, March 23, 2011. The international military operation against the forces of Col. Moammar Gadhafi, Libya's leader, may last days or weeks — but not months, French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe said Thursday. (AP Photo/French navy, Raphael Martinez)

France to send aircraft carrier to aid U.S.-led coalition against Islamic State

By Kellan Howell - The Washington Times

Kurdish peshmerga forces have proved to be the most formidable fighters against the Islamic State group. (Associated Press/File)

Kurds seek supplies for peshmerga winter fight against Islamic State

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

In this Oct. 27, 2015, photo, President Barack Obama speaks at the 122nd International Association of Chiefs of Police Annual Conference in Chicago. Even as Obama sent U.S. troops back to Iraq and ordered the military to stay in Afghanistan, he insisted Syria would remain off limits for American ground forces. Now the president has crossed his own red line. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Obama says Special Forces in Syria won’t be ‘on the front lines’

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

President Barack Obama addresses troops at Bagram Air Field, Afghanistan, Wednesday, May 2, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) **FILE**

BRUCE FEIN: Congress: Order troops home under war powers resolution

By Bruce Fein

Members of the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq organization chant slogans and hold banners during a tour organized by the Iraqi government for foreign diplomats in Baghdad, Iraq, on Sept. 11, 2012. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Iran responsible for deadly rocket attack on Camp Liberty in Iraq, dissidents say

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Kurdistan Regional President Masoud Barzani. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

HEMIN QAZI: Kurds: Subjugated, the struggle for self-determination

By Hemin Qazi

President Barack Obama, flanked by Vice President Joe Biden, right, and Defense Secretary Ash Carter, speaks about Afghanistan, Thursday, Oct. 15, 2015, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington. Obama announced that he will keep U.S. troops in Afghanistan when he leaves office in 2017, casting aside his promise to end the war on his watch and instead ensuring he hands the conflict off to his successor. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Obama weighing Pentagon suggestions for more ground troops in Iraq and Syria

By Kellan Howell - The Washington Times

This undated file image posted on a militant website on Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2014, which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting, shows fighters from the al Qaeda-linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) or Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), now called the Islamic State group, marching in Raqqa, Syria. (AP Photo/Militant Website, File)

Islamic State earns $50 million per month on oil sales

By Kellan Howell - The Washington Times

President Barack Obama speaks in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, in this Oct. 15, 2015, file photo. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) ** FILE **

Obama appoints Brett McGurk as new envoy to lead coalition against Islamic State

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times