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This image released by NBC shows Amanda Knox during an interview on the "Today" show in New York on Sept. 20, 2013. Knox defended her decision not to return to Italy for a new appeals trial over the 2007 killing of her British roommate, even as she acknowledged that "everything is at stake," insisting she is innocent. In March, Italy's supreme court ordered a new trial for Knox and her former Italian boyfriend. An appeals court in 2011 had acquitted both, overturning convictions by a lower court. Italian law cannot compel Knox to return for the new legal proceeding. (Associated Press/NBC, Peter Kramer) **FILE**

Amanda Knox murder conviction reversed by Italian court

By Jeffrey Scott Shapiro - The Washington Times

The Islamic State may be looking to turn more of Rome into ruins. (AP Photo)

Inside the Ring: Islamic State likely to attack Italy with stolen Libyan airliners

By Bill Gertz

Amanda Knox's Italian ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, right, arrives at Italy's highest court building, in Rome, Wednesday, March 25, 2015. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Italy high court deciding fate of ‘very worried’ Amanda Knox

By Colleen Barry and Frances D'Emilio - Associated Press

Dolce & Gabbana, Elton John hashtags do battle over gay rights

By Colleen Barry - Associated Press

ANOTHER WAVE: Migrants are being rescued in the harbor of the island of Lampedusa, Italy. With Libya's security rapidly deteriorating, the number of people setting out in smugglers' boats to cross the Mediterranean Sea toward Italy has surged. (Associated Press)

Lampedusa, Italy, becomes symbol of Europe’s migrant crisis as refugees crowd tiny island

By Eric J. Lyman - Special to The Washington Times

Migrants wait to disembark from an Italian Coast Guard vessel after being rescued in Porto Empedocle, Sicily, southern Italy, Wednesday, March 4, 2015. In a dramatic sea rescue north of Libya, a flotilla of rescue ships saved nearly 1,000 migrants and refugees, while 10 migrants perished in the southern Mediterranean, Italian officials said Wednesday. The rescue vessels, including from Italy's coast guard and navy, and three cargo ships, saved 941 people in seven separate operations that began Tuesday, Italy's coast guard said. The survivors were being ferried to southern Italian ports. The migrants had been aboard five motorized dinghies and two larger vessels. One of the larger boats capsized, and 10 bodies were spotted or plucked from the sea. According to Interior Ministry figures, 7,882 migrants arrived on Italian coasts in the first two months of this year, compared to 5,506 in that period in 2014. The coast guard said the migrants saved in the latest rescues claimed to be Syrians, Palestinians, Libyans, Tunisians or from sub-Saharan Africa. (AP Photo/Francesco Malavolta)

FRANK GAFFNEY: Islamic State’s continuing threat to Italy

By Sean MacCormac

Libyan followers of Ansar al-Shariah Brigades chant anti-U.S. slogans during a protest in front of the Tibesti Hotel, in Benghazi, Libya, Sept. 14, 2012. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Italian coast guard, humiliated, demands weapons for Islamic State defense

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

In this Wednesday, June 23, 2010 photo, Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd announces in Canberra, Australia, that his party has called a leadership vote just months away from national elections. Australia will have its first woman prime minister on Thursday, as Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard has enough support to beat incumbent Kevin Rudd in a Labor Party ballot, several media outlets have reported. (AP Photo/AAP Image, Alan Porritt) **FILE**

DAVID KREUTZER: Australia’s wind-power market deflates

By David W. Kreutzer

Italian Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni listens to opposition lawmakers at the Lower Chamber in Rome, Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2015. Italy pressed for swifter action Wednesday by the United Nations to find a political solution to Libya's rapidly deteriorating security situation. Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni, speaking in Parliament, urged the world to "quicken its pace before it is too late." Egypt this week launched airstrikes in neighboring Libya after the Islamic State group posted a video of the beheadings of 21 Egyptian Coptic Christians there. (AP Photo/Angelo Carconi, Ansa)

FRANK GAFFNEY: Islamic State threatens Italy

By Sean MacCormac

FILE - In this Friday, Sept. 21, 2012 file photo, Libyan followers of Ansar al-Shariah Brigades and other Islamic militias, hold a demonstration against a film and a cartoon denigrating the Prophet Muhammad in Benghazi. Libya, virtually a failed state the past years, has provided a perfect opportuni(...)

Islamic State aims to flood Europe with 500K migrants

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

A young girl looks on at French soldiers patrolling at the Roissy Charles de Gaulle airport, in Roissy, north of Paris, Saturday, Jan. 17, 2015. France ordered 10,000 troops into the streets Monday to protect sensitive sites — nearly half of them to guard Jewish schools — as it hunted for accomplices to the Islamic militants who left 17 people dead as they terrorized the nation. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

Police release 3 suspects arrested in French terror probe

By GREG KELLER - Associated Press