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This image provided by U.S. CENTCOM shows al-Nuri mosque destroyed by the Islamic State group, in Mosul, Iraq, Wednesday, June 21, 2017. The Islamic State group destroyed the mosque and its iconic leaning minaret known as al-Hadba when fighters detonated explosives inside the structures Wednesday night, Iraq's Ministry of Defense said. Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi tweeted early Thursday, June 22, 2017 that the destruction was an admission by the militants that they are losing the fight for Iraq's second-largest city. (U.S. CENTCOM via AP)

ISIS militants destroy 12th century mosque in Iraq’s Mosul

By Balint Szlanko - Associated Press

Protesters stage die-in with a banner reading "Stop the killings" during a rally near the Presidential Palace to denounce the Martial Law declaration of President Rodrigo Duterte after Muslim militants laid a siege of Marawi city in southern Philippines for three weeks, Monday, June 12, 2017 in Manila, Philippines. The protesters also denounced the killings by Duterte's bloody anti-drug crackdown. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)

ISIS kills ‘belligerent’ Christians, as delusional pols decry ‘drug’ war

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

An Army carry team places a transfer case containing the remains of Army Sgt. Cameron Thomas, 23, of Kettering, Ohio, into the transfer vehicle, Friday, April 28, 2017, at Dover Air Force Base, Del. Thomas and Sgt. Joshua P. Rodgers, 22, of Bloomington, Ill, killed during a raid on an Islamic State compound in eastern Afghanistan, may have died as a result of friendly fire during the opening minutes of the fierce, three-hour firefight, the Pentagon said Friday. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

Abdul Hasib, head of ISIS in Afghanistan, killed by U.S., Afghan special forces

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

In this Wednesday, March 22, 2017 photograph, an F-18 is launched off the USS George H.W. Bush as it travels through the Persian Gulf. The carrier soon will begin launching airstrikes targeting the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria. (AP Photo/Jon Gambrell)

U.S. bombing in Syria seen as a ‘clean strike’ says coalition commander

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson speaks at the Meeting of the Ministers of the Global Coalition on the Defeat of ISIS, Wednesday, March 22, 2017, at the State Department in Washington. Top officials from the 68-nation coalition fighting the Islamic State group are looking to increase pressure on the group as U.S.-backed forces move closer to retaking Mosul. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

US tells allies to do more amid new offensive against IS

By MATTHEW LEE - Associated Press

President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, center, and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Joseph Dunford, left, listen as Defense Secretary Ash Carter speaks during an Armed Forces Full Honor Farewell Review for the president, Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2017, at Conmy Hall, Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall, Va. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Terrorism made easy when nobody’s looking

By Wesley Pruden - The Washington Times

In this Dec. 2, 2016 photo, a pair of Daesh, or ISIS, patches, a wrist band featuring Syrian government markings and a bayonet collected from the battlefield in Syria are arranged atop on of Freeman Stevenson's YPG camouflage uniforms arranged for a photograph in Saratoga Springs, Utah. Stevenson volunteered for combat alongside the Kurdish militia and said he wanted to fight the Islamic State. (Spenser Heaps/The Deseret News via AP)

Utahns volunteer for combat alongside Kurdish militia

By DAPHNE CHEN - Associated Press

A B-52 bomber flies over the Pacific Ocean. (Image: U.S. Air Force) ** FILE **

U.S. bombed Mosul terrorists every 8 minutes for 3 days at battle’s start, official says

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

Nearly a half-year after the U.S. boasted of Libyan militias closing in on the Islamic State-held city of Sirte, the campaign has largely stalled out. (Associated Press)

U.S. pulled deeper into Libya’s ISIS conflict as Sirte offensive stalls

By Carlo Muñoz and Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

This file image made from video posted on a militant website Saturday, July 5, 2014, purports to show the leader of the Islamic State group, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, delivering a sermon at a mosque in Iraq during his first public appearance. Al-Baghdadi released a new message late on Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2016, encouraging his followers to keep up the fight for the city of Mosul, which they are defending against Iraqi government forces, the SITE Intelligence Group, a U.S. organization that monitors militant activity online said Thursday. (Militant video via AP, File)

Pentagon won’t verify recording by Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, ISIS leader

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Saturday, Aug. 13, 2016 file photo, a soldier from the 1st Battalion of the Iraqi Special Operations Forces listens to an address by his commander after a training exercise to prepare for the operation to re-take Mosul from Islamic State militants, in Baghdad, Iraq. The disparate groups that make up Iraq's security forces are converging on the city of Mosul, lining up for a battle on the historic plains of northern Iraq that is likely to be decisive in the war against the Islamic State group(AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo, File)

Defeating jihadists with force works every time

By Ernie Audino

Amal Alamuddin Clooney, writer, human rights activist, 3rd left, listens to the national anthem during the opening ceremony of the International Government Communications Forum in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, Sunday, March 20, 2016. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)

Amal Clooney, George’s wife, takes on U.N. and ISIS

By Elise Harris - Catholic News Agency

Illustration on the dangers in failing to identify Islamist terrorism as such by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Calling Islamist terrorism by its name

By Bruce M. Lawlor

Visiting U.S. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter, left, shakes hands with Iraqi Defense Minister Khaled al-Obeidi at the Ministry of Defense, Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, July 11, 2016. (AP Photo)

Islamic State rapidly losing ground in Iraq and Syria: report

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

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

200 Marines helping Iraqi forces near Mosul to head back home; U.S. Army unit to step in

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times