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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

A Russian-made MiG-29 jet performs stunts outside Moscow, Aug. 21, 2009. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Islamist faction in Libya repairs Russian-made MIGs, conducts first airstrike

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

A man mourns over Egyptian Coptic Christians who were captured in Libya and killed by militants affiliated with the Islamic State group, inside the Virgin Mary Church in the village of el-Aour, near Minya, 220 kilometers (135 miles) south of Cairo, Egypt, Monday, Feb. 16, 2015. Egyptian warplanes struck Islamic State targets in Libya on Monday in swift retribution for the extremists' beheading of a group of Egyptian Christian hostages on a beach, shown in a grisly online video released hours earlier. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Libyan chaos prompts call for emergency U.N. Security Council meeting

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

Good Apples and Bad of Islam Illustration by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

CLIFFORD MAY: Telling the truth about radical Islam won’t offend peaceful Muslims

By Clifford D. May

Egypt strikes Islamic State group in Libya after video of mass killing

By Maggie Michael - Associated Press

In this image made from video broadcast on Egyptian state television on Monday, Feb. 16, 2015, a fighter jet leaves the hangar in preparation to launch airstrikes against Islamic State targets in Libya after the extremist group released a grisly video showing the beheading of several Egyptian Coptic Christians it had held hostage for weeks. (AP Photo/Egyptian State Television via AP video)

Egypt strikes IS group in Libya after video of mass killing

By HAMZA HENDAWI and MAGGIE MICHAEL - Associated Press

Pope Francis denounces slaying of Egyptian Copts by Islamic State

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FILE - In this June 21, 2001 file photo, a French Air Force Rafale manufactured by France's Dassault Aviation speeds above Le Bourget airport, north of Paris, France, during the 44th Paris Air Show. Egypt will become the first foreign buyer of Rafale fighter jets, French officials said Thursday, purchasing 24 of the multi-role French-made aircraft as part of a 5.2 billion-euro (US$5.93 billion) defense deal that will strengthen Cairo's military might in a tense and violent region. (AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere, File)

Egypt signs agreements to purchase advanced French warplanes

By BRIAN ROHAN - Associated Press

Egypt's government said its fighter jets pounded Islamic State camps and arms depots across the border in Libya, in the morning and in the afternoon, in response to a horrific video the terrorist group posted showing the beheadings of 21 Egyptian Coptic Christians. (Associated Press)

Islamic State announces expansion into Libya with Egyptian Christians beheading video

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

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

Al Qaeda-inspired gunmen seize radio, TV stations in central Libya

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MIKE ROGERS: Libya does not have to be the next Afghanistan

By Mike Rogers

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., speaks in Washington in this Jan. 13, 2015, file photo. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

Rand Paul: ‘Hillary’s war’ in Libya contributed to rise of Islamic State

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

In this Jan. 17, 2015 file photo, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe attends a joint meeting of the Japan-Egypt business committee in Cairo, Egypt. Behind the sympathy Japanese are voicing over their two countrymen purportedly slain by the Islamic State group is a widespread view that they were "troublemakers." (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)

FRANK GAFFNEY: DIA chief warns of expanding jihadist threat in ever-dangerous world

By Sean MacCormac

President Obama's Secretary of Defense nominee Ashton Carter is signaling to lawmakers that instability in such countries as Libya and Yemen may require additional counterterrorism operations similar to the ones being conducted by the U.S. military on the Pakistan and Afghanistan border. (Associated Press)

Ashton Carter will prioritize terrorist safe havens, foreign fighters

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

President Barack Obama delivers remarks during a meeting with people that wrote him letters explaining how they benefited from the Affordable Care Act in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, on Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2015, in Washington. Obama also condemned the execution of Jordanian Air Force pilot First Lt. Moaz al-Kasasbeh by the Islamic State group. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Obama, U.S. blind to Islamic State Libya threat, top official warns

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

The chairman of a special House committee created to investigate the 2012 Benghazi tragedy on Monday instructed his staff to review secretly recorded tapes and intelligence reports that detail Hillary Clinton's role in advocating and executing the war in Libya, opening the door for a possible expansion of his probe. (Associated Press)

Hillary Clinton Libya tapes set for House Benghazi committee review

By Jeffrey Scott Shapiro and Kelly Riddell - The Washington Times

"U.S. policymakers refuse to accurately name the movement as radical Islam. We further choose not to define it nor explain its ideology, and most critical, we have no comprehensive strategy to stop it or defeat it," said retired Army Gen. John Keane. (Associated Press)

Obama lacks strategy to stop Islamic State expansion

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

Hillary Rodham Clinton is likely to face questions over whether she had an adequate plan for Libya in 2011 and whether her efforts led to the Benghazi tragedy a year later. (Associated Press)

Hillary Clinton’s Libya war push armed Benghazi rebels with suspected al Qaeda ties

By Jeffrey Scott Shapiro - The Washington Times