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Tiananmen Square's famous gate is being repainted for what will be Chinese President Xi Jinping's first military parade since taking power in 2012. (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: China drops a money bomb

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

In this Aug. 15, 2015, file photo, President Barack Obama smiles as he sits in a cart while golfing at Farm Neck Golf Club, in Oak Bluffs, Mass., on the island of Martha's Vineyard. So far, one rainy day is the only thing that has dampened Obama’s two-week summer vacation on Martha’s Vineyard. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)

Obama: No U.S. drones for ally Jordan

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

Late Edition with Tim Constantine (August 19, 2015)

Late Edition with Tim Constantine (August 19, 2015)

By Tim Constantine

Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina is escorted by Tom Stone from Gardnerville, Nevada, after arriving at the Inaugural Basque Fry at Corley Ranch in Gardnerville on Aug. 15, 2015. (Associated Press)

Carly Fiorina: Unlike Hillary Clinton, I didn’t do ‘photo ops’ with world leaders

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

This image made from a video released Feb. 15, 2015, by militants in Libya claiming loyalty to the Islamic State purportedly shows Egyptian Coptic Christians in orange jumpsuits being led along a beach before being executed. (Associated Press)

Islamic State takes hold in Libya; Arab League weighs airstrikes in emergency meeting

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Officials told The Washington Times that American investigators led by the FBI were scrambling to piece together what contacts Mohammad Youssef Abdulazeez — a 24-year-old Kuwait-born American citizen who was killed in a shootout with police — may have made during various visits to the Middle East in recent years. (Associated Press)

Chattanooga gunman’s uncle detained in Jordan as investigators seek terror link

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Lisa Camp holds a cross in the rain near the Armed Forces Career Center on Lee Highway, Sunday, July 19, 2015, in Chattanooga, Tenn. Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez attacked two military facilities, including the career center, last week in a shooting rampage that killed a U.S. Navy sailor and four Marines. (John Rawlston/Chattanooga Times Free Press via AP)

Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez’s family spokesman: Depression may have led to Tenn. killings

By Jay Reeves and Michael Biesecker - Associated Press

This April 2015 booking photo released by the Hamilton County Sheriffs Office shows a man identified as Mohammad Youssduf Adbulazeer after being detained for a driving offense. A U.S. official speaking on condition of anonymity identified the gunman in shootings at two Chattanooga military facilities as Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez, who shares the same age and address as the man in the photo. (Hamilton County Sheriffs Office via AP) ** FILE **

FBI examining foreign travel of Mohammod Youssuf Abdulazeez, Chattanooga shooting suspect

By John Solomon - The Washington Times

In this July 6, 2015 photo, a Christian visitor pours water from the Jordan River over the head of another at the baptismal area on the eastern bank of the river in South Shuna, Jordan, as people, background, gather for their baptism on the western bank at the Israeli-run site located in a part of the West Bank. UNESCO recently designated Jordan's baptismal area a World Heritage site, over the Israeli-run site of Qasr al-Yahud in the West Bank, which is one of three territories captured by Israel in the 1967 Mideast war. Qasr al-Yahud remains under full Israeli military occupation. (AP Photo/Raad Adayleh)

UNESCO backs Jordan waterside as Jesus’ baptism site, but debate continues

By Karin Laub and Sam McNeil - Associated Press

FILE - In this Saturday, April 11, 2015 file photo, Los Angeles Clippers' DeAndre Jordan brings in a rebound in front of Memphis Grizzlies' Zach Randolph, left, and JaMychal Green, right, during the second half of an NBA basketball game in Los Angeles. DeAndre Jordan has chosen the Mavericks over the Los Angeles Clippers in what turned into a tense boom-or-bust wait for Dallas in pursuit of the free-agent center. Two people familiar with the deal tell The Associated Press that Jordan agreed to terms Friday, July 3, 2015. (AP Photo/Danny Moloshok, File)

AP sources: Mavericks, DeAndre Jordan agree to 4-year deal

By Schuyler Dixon and Jon Krawczynski - Associated Press

In this picture taken, Wednesday, May 6, 2015, Syrian refugee Fatmeh Ahmed, 20, holds her 10-month-old son, Hassan, in their shack on a peach farm near the northern Jordanian community of Salhiyeh. Ahmed, and her husband live on $9-a-day jobs on the farm, after they lost $100 a month in food vouchers due to cuts by the cash-strapped World Food Program. (AP Photo/Raad Adayleh)

Syrian refugees struggle amid aid cuts, lack of labor rights

By Karin Laub - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 31, 2010 file photo, an unmanned U.S. Predator drone flies over Kandahar Air Field, southern Afghanistan, on a moon-lit night. The deaths of an Italian and an American in a covert CIA drone strike in Pakistan have breathed new urgency into a long-stalled plan to give the Pentagon primacy over targeted killing of terrorists overseas. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File)

China to sell Jordan missile-firing drones after Obama says no to helping ally

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

Military chief of Libya's internationally recognized government, Gen. Khalifa Hifter, speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Amman, Jordan, Tuesday, April 14, 2015. Hifter said in an interview that he is &quot;betting on a military solution&quot; if U.N.-led talks fail to end a conflict that has split the country in half. (AP Photo/Raad Adayleh)

AP Interview: Libya army chief bets on military solution

By KARIN LAUB - Associated Press

In this photo taken Friday, March 6, 2015, Syrian refugee children play in the backyard of the Al-Rama Public School that has become home to 22 Syrian families int the Lebanese-Syrian border village of Al-Rama, north Lebanon. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

4 years of Syria war leave families uprooted, separated

By Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

Two Jordanian men walk past graffiti depicting the flag of the Islamic State group with Arabic that reads, "There is only one God and Muhammad is his prophet," in the city of Ma'an, Jordan. (Associated Press)

Obama pushed by House members to OK drones for Jordan in ISIS fight

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

Jordanians chant slogans to show their support for the government's campaign against terror during a rally in Amman, Jordan. (Associated Press)

Jordan expands Islamic State bombing raids into Iraq after pilot burning death

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

Peace in the Middle East Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

DANIEL PIPES: Like-to-like ethnic migration in the Middle East

By Daniel Pipes

"I was ... mind-boggled and didn't understand at all how this could be part of a strategic plan in what they're talking about," Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, a captain in the Hawaii Army National Guard and Iraq War veteran, said on CNN. "That you're not only outlining the timeline — which is troubling, but you're also talking about specifically how many troops, how many brigades, where they're coming from, and what they're going to be doing." (Associated Press)

Jordan training camp for Islamic State fight leaked by Pentagon in latest gaffe

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

In this May 30, 2013, photo, Kayla Mueller is shown after speaking to a group in Prescott, Ariz. The parents of an American woman held by Islamic State militants say they have been notified of her death. Carl and Marsha Mueller, the parents of Kayla Jean Mueller, released a statement on Tuesday saying they have been told that she has died. The White House also issued a statement confirming her death.The Islamic State group said Friday that the 26-year-old Mueller from Prescott, Arizona, died in a Jordanian airstrike. (AP Photo/The Daily Courier, Matt Hinshaw)

Obama vows retribution against Islamic State for Kayla Mueller death

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times