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In this Sunday, May 29, 2016 file photo, Iraqi security forces and allied Popular Mobilization forces fire artillery during a fight against Islamic State militants in Fallujah, Iraq. Iraq's mostly Shiite militia forces say they will participate in the next major battle against IS in Iraq after victory was declared in Mosul last month. (AP Photo/Anmar Khalil, File)

Thousands flee as Iraq steps up airstrikes on IS-held town

By BALINT SZLANKO and QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA - Associated Press

Iraqi Special Forces soldiers walk to the frontline as Iraqi forces continue their advance against Islamic State militants in the Old City of Mosul, Iraq, Wednesday, July 5, 2017. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

IS attack underscores fragility of Iraqi security forces

By SUSANNAH GEORGE - Associated Press

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

Kurdish peshmerga troops are taking back territory in northern Iraq in a survivalist fight against Islamic State invaders who have commandeered hundreds of American vehicles. The Kurdish forces say they are outgunned and need armor-piercing projectiles. (Associated Press photographs)

Islamic State stalemates provoke Kurds to ask for more weapons

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

U.S. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter pauses as he speaks with media on a military aircraft after departing Jiddah, Saudi Arabia, Wednesday, July 22, 2015, en route Amman, Jordan. While in Jiddah Carter met with Saudi Arabian King Salman bin Abdul Aziz and other Saudi officials. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, Pool)

Ashton Carter arrives in Iraqi capital on unannounced visit

By Robert Burns - Associated Press

In this photo released on May 20, 2015, provided by the Kurdish fighters of the People's Protection Units (YPG), which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, Kurdish fighters of the YPG, flash victory signs as they sit on their pickup on their way to battle against the Islamic State, near Kezwan mountain, northeast Syria. In contrast to the failures of the Iraqi army, in Syria Kurdish fighters are on the march against the Islamic State group, capturing towns and villages in an oil-rich swath of the country's northeast in recent days, under the cover of U.S.-led airstrikes. (The Kurdish fighters of the People's Protection Units via AP)

Kurdish fighters in Syria on the march against IS militants

By BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi arrived last week to distribute weapons and support security forces and Sunni volunteers at a camp in Habaniyah, west of Baghdad. After victory against Islamic State militants in the city of Tikrit, Iraq set sights on western Anbar province for its second major counteroffensive against the Islamic State. (Associated Press)

Iraq may follow U.S. Marines’ blueprint to defeat Islamic State in Anbar

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

The offensive to retake Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit from Islamic State jihadis is being closely monitored by those in nearby Mosul, as Tikrit's fate may determine Mosul's destiny as well. (Associated Press)

Mosul waits for battle against Islamic State with hope and anxiety

By Ammar Al Shamary and Gilgamesh Nabeel — Special to The Washington Times

FILE - In this Saturday, Oct. 11, 2014 file photo, Kurdish Ali Mehmud mourns at the grave of his brother Seydo Mehmud 'Curo', a Kurdish fighter, who was killed in the fighting with the militants of the Islamic State group in Kobani, Syria, and was buried at a cemetery in Suruc, Turkey. No one contests that the U.S.-led coalition has conducted more than 40 airstrikes against the militants besieging Kobani, nor that Turkey has granted refuge to more than 200,000 people who have flooded across the border to escape the offensive. But Kurds say that both countries - and the international community in general - should be doing more to help save Kobani from the fanatical militants who have massacred and beheaded their enemies across Syria and Iraq. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis, File)

BAKIR: Congress should equip and train the Kurds

By Falah Mustafa Bakir

U.S. Sen. John McCain campaigns for GOP senate candidate Ed Gillespie, right, at VFW Post 4809 in Norfolk, Va. on Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2014. (AP Photo/The Virginian-Pilot, Stephen M. Katz)

McCain: Strategy to confront Islamic State ‘not working’

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

Casey Stengel (right) won seven World Series titles as manager of the Yankees, but none with the Mets. Bruce Fein compares those losing seasons with the CIA: "The intelligence community's chronic blunders bring to mind Casey Stengel's exasperation with the New York Mets: 'Can't anybody here play this game?' "

FEIN: Intelligence community blunders

By Bruce Fein

President Obama addresses the nation from the Cross Hall in the White House in Washington. (Associated Press)

Obama: Offensive against Islamic State ‘will be different’ from Iraq, Afghanistan

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

President Barack Obama walks from the Oval Office to the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Monday, June 30, 2014, to make a statement on immigration reform. The president said he's done waiting for House Republicans to act on immigration. He says he now plans to act on his own. Obama announced his intention Monday to take executive action. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Obama sends more troops to Baghdad for embassy protection

By Maggie Ybarra and Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

A destroyed Iraqi army humvee is left behind outside of the northern city of Mosul, Iraq, Wednesday, June 25, 2014, more than two weeks after the al-Qaida-inspired Islamic Sate of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) took over the country's second largest city. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry warned Mideast nations on Wednesday against taking new military action in Iraq that might heighten already-tense sectarian divisions, as reports surfaced that Syria launched airstrikes across the border and Iran has been flying surveillance drones over the neighboring country. (AP Photo)

Additional U.S. forces arriving in Iraq

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

Shiite tribal fighters raise their weapons and chant slogans against the al-Qaida-inspired Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Basra, Iraq's second-largest city, 340 miles (550 kilometers) southeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, As the U.S. masses air power on Iraq's doorstep, analysts are warning that missiles and bombs will have limited impact on Islamic militants unless the Iraqi army stops running and starts fighting. (AP Photo/ Nabil Al-Jurani)

For any U.S. airstrike to succeed, the Iraqi army must stand and fight, experts say

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Obama’s neglect emboldens enemy in Iraq

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

BOOK REVIEW: ‘The Snake Eaters’

By Gary Anderson - Special to The Washington Times

25 killed in attacks targeting Iraqi police

By Rebecca Santana and Sameer N. Yacoub - Associated Press