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Australian police arrest 3 over alleged Sydney terror plot

By ROD McGUIRK - Associated Press

Armed and dangerous: Pro-Iran Popular Mobilization Forces militants say it’s time for U.S. troops to leave Iraq and are said to be spreading conspiracy theories that the Trump administration is helping the Islamic State. (Associated Press)

Iran backed Popular Mobilization Forces pressures U.S. to leave Iraq

By Adam Lucente — Special to The Washington Times

In this Sunday, Feb. 10, 2019 image from video provided by Hawar News Agency, ANHA, an online Kurdish news service, civilians flee fighting near Baghouz, Syria. Fierce fighting was underway Monday between U.S.-backed Syrian forces and the Islamic State group around the extremists' last foothold in eastern Syria. The capture of the IS-held village of Baghouz and nearby areas would mark the end of a four-year global war to end IS' territorial hold over large parts of Syria and Iraq, where the group established its self-proclaimed &quot;caliphate&quot; in 2014. (ANHA via AP) **FILE**

Fierce fighting over last Islamic State foothold in Syria

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

In this photo released on Monday, Oct. 1, 2018, by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, missiles are fired from city of Kermanshah in western Iran targeting the Islamic State group in Syria. Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard said Monday it launched ballistic missiles into eastern Syria targeting militants it blamed for a recent attack on a military parade. (Sepahnews via AP)

U.S. forces in no danger during Iranian missile strikes into Syria

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

An Iraqi Special Forces vehicle displays a Shiite flag bearing the likeness of Imam Hussein and Imam Ali with Arabic words reading "At your service Hussein" in Mosul, Iraq. State-sanctioned Shiite militias are positioning themselves to control areas liberated from Islamic State militants in northern Iraq, opening the door to fresh domestic and regional conflict and raising concerns among religious and ethnic minorities. (Associated Press/File)

Mosul draws Iran-backed Shiite militias

By Seth J. Frantzman

"It is essential to cut the financial links between ISIS leadership and operations in the so-called 'caliphate,'" said Juan Zarate, who was a national security adviser for President George W. Bush. (Associated Press)

Islamic State financing needs a crackdown, U.S. expert says

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Brett McGurk, President Obama's envoy to members of the anti-Islamic State coalition, told a Capitol Hill hearing that Islamic State officials are telling recruits in the West to stay put and conduct attacks at home rather than travel to the Salafist group's base in Syria, where its control is increasingly under threat. (Associated Press)

ISIS tells recruits in West to stay put, conduct attacks

By Jessie Fox - The Washington Times

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

A civilian fighter in Benghazi has the Libyan flag in one hand and a weapon in the other. Army units, backed by civilian fighters, cleared a major part of the city of Islamic extremists last week. (Associated Press)

Libyans debate West’s help against ISIS as nation crumbles

By Reda Elhadi Fhelboom and Jacob Wirtschafter - Special to The Washington Times

In a strategic and symbolic victory, soldiers raise Iraqi national flags at the government complex in central Ramadi on Monday after retaking it from the Islamic State. Militants occupied the capital of Anbar province since May. (Associated Press)

Islamic State driven from Ramadi by Iraq with U.S. help

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Sen. Lindsey Graham, South Carolina Republican and presidential candidate, is a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee. (Associated Press/File)

Lindsey Graham wants Congress to grant war authorization against ISIS in Mideast

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

People gather near the site of a twin suicide attack in Burj al-Barajneh, southern Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, Nov. 12, 2015 that struck a Shiite suburb killed and wounded dozens, a Lebanese official said. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Islamic State claims responsibility for twin suicide bombs in Beirut

By Kellan Howell - The Washington Times

This screen grab made Monday, Jan. 12, 2015, show the front page of the U.S. Central Command Twitter account after is was hacked. (AP Photo) ** FILE **

Activists to Congress: Twitter does not do enough to combat Islamic extremist propaganda

By Kellan Howell - The Washington Times

A deadly attack on a Tunisian beach was just one of three from Europe to the Middle East on June 26 after an Islamic State call to violence. Some attacks by far-flung affiliates have targeted Westerners, while others are aimed at Shiite Muslims living in Sunni-majority nations. (Associated Press)

Islamic State attacks beyond Syria, Iraq prompt U.S. concern

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Chief Executive of Afghanistan Abdullah Abdullah, speaks while State Secretary John Kerry, right and Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, left, listen, during a dinner reception at the Department of State, in Washington, Tuesday, March 24, 2015. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Abdullah Abdullah of Afghanistan worries about Islamic State’s presence in his nation

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

In this photo taken on Monday, Feb. 9, 2015, Seema Kassab, in front, of The Muslim Liberty Project (MLP) holds a candlelight vigil in honor of victims of the Islamic State group at the Hayden Lawn, Arizona State University Tempe, Ariz., Campus. The vigil recognized IS hostage Kayla Mueller, an aid worker from Prescott, Ariz., who was taken in Aleppo on Aug. 4, 2013. (AP Photo/The Arizona Republic, Nick Oza) MARICOPA COUNTY OUT; MAGS OUT; NO SALES

White House: At least one more U.S. hostage in Middle East

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

FILE - in this July 8, 2014, file photo, Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington. Inhofe, who will take over the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee in January, said in a statement late Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2104, that a stricter standard to be announced Wednesday by the Obama administration on smog-forming pollution allowed in the air "will lower our nation's economic competitiveness and stifle job creation for decades." He vowed "vigorous oversight" of the proposal in his new position. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Republicans back Obama on Islamic State military action, push for broad war powers

By Jacqueline Klimas - The Washington Times

In this May 30, 2013, photo, Kayla Mueller is shown after speaking to a group in Prescott, Ariz. A statement that appeared on a militant website commonly used by the Islamic State group claimed that Mueller was killed in a Jordanian airstrike on Friday, Feb. 6, 2015, on the outskirts of the northern Syrian city of Raqqa, the militant group's main stronghold. The IS statement could not be independently verified. (AP Photo/The Daily Courier, Matt Hinshaw) MANDATORY CREDIT

Kayla Mueller, U.S. ISIS hostage, is dead, family says

By Deb Riechmann and Julie Pace - Associated Press

A Predator drone flies over Kandahar Air Field in Afghanistan. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Mullah Abdul Rauf, former Gitmo detainee, killed by drone in Afghanistan

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

This undated file image posted on a militant website Jan. 14, 2014 shows fighters from the al Qaeda-linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) marching through Raqqa, Syria. (AP Photo/Militant Website, File)

New sanctions proposed for Islamic State group oil trading

By Edith M. Lederer - Associated Press