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In this Friday, May 27, 2016, file photo, U.S. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter delivers remarks during the U.S. Naval Academy's graduation and commissioning ceremony in Annapolis, Md. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Ashton Carter seeks faster tempo in fight on Islamic State

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

Iraqi forces repelled a four-hour attack by the Islamic State group in Fallujah on Tuesday, a day after moving into the southern edges of the militant-held city with the help of U.S.-led coalition airstrikes. This image was posted on a photo sharing website by an Islamic State militant media arm. (Associated Press)

Haider al-Abadi’s political pressures driving Fallujah campaign as much as strategy

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Tuesday, July 8, 2014 file photo, an Iraqi refugee man who left his hometown of Mosul walks towards Irbil as he crosses a berm that separates Kurdish fighters and militants of the Islamic State group outside the northern city of Mosul, Iraq. An Iraqi military spokesman says the long-awaited military operation to recapture the northern city of Mosul from Islamic State militants &quot;has begun.&quot; The spokesman for the Joint Military Command, Brig. Gen. Yahya Rasool, says Iraqi forces retook several villages on the outskirts of the town of Makhmour, east of Mosul, on Thursday, March 24, 2016. (AP Photo, File)

Pentagon: Mosul battle plan in the hands of Iraq, not U.S.

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

In this April 28, 2016, file photo, Defense Secretary Ashton Carter testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Ashton Carter, defense secretary, says American killed in combat in Iraq

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

U.S. soldiers (left) participate in a training mission with Iraqi army soldiers outside Baghdad on May 27, 2015. (Associated Press) **FILE**

200 Marines helping Iraqi forces near Mosul to head back home; U.S. Army unit to step in

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Tuesday, July 8, 2014 file photo, an Iraqi refugee man who left his hometown of Mosul walks towards Irbil as he crosses a berm that separates Kurdish fighters and militants of the Islamic State group outside the northern city of Mosul, Iraq. An Iraqi military spokesman says the long-awaited military operation to recapture the northern city of Mosul from Islamic State militants &quot;has begun.&quot; The spokesman for the Joint Military Command, Brig. Gen. Yahya Rasool, says Iraqi forces retook several villages on the outskirts of the town of Makhmour, east of Mosul, on Thursday, March 24, 2016. (AP Photo, File)

Iraqis, Kurds nearly ready for fight to reclaim Mosul from ISIS: Pentagon

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

U.S. soldiers (left) participate in a training mission with Iraqi army soldiers outside Baghdad on May 27, 2015. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Obama: Iraq to retake Mosul from ISIS by end of year

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

U.S. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter reviews troops as he arrives for the closing ceremony of the 11-day joint U.S.-Philippines military exercise at Camp Aguinaldo in suburban Quezon city, Philippines, in this April 15, 2016, file photo. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez, File)

Ashton Carter arrives in Iraq for talks on how to beef up ISIS fight

By Lolita C. Baldor - Associated Press

"We have momentum, and we intend to keep that momentum," President Obama said of the Islamic State terrorist group, which also is known as ISIL and ISIS. "The ISIL core in Syria and Iraq continues to shrink. We are focused, and we are going to win." (Associated Press)

Obama hails ‘momentum’ in ISIS fight in Iraq, Syria

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

U.S. Marines carry the casket of fallen Marine Staff Sgt. Louis F. Cardinto as hundreds of area residents gather to pay their last respects during a public viewing on the steps of the Temecula Civic Center in Temecula, Calif., on Friday, April 1, 2016. Cardin was killed in a rocket attack in Iraq last month. (Frank Bellino/The Press-Enterprise via AP) MAGS OUT; MANDATORY CREDIT; LOS ANGELES TIMES OUT

Marines in Iraq are ‘temporary,’ but no end date in sight: Pentagon

By Carlo Munoz - Special to TheWashington Times

A war planner at the Pentagon said Islamic State fighters are losing land and are restricted in maneuvers on the battlefield as coalition precision airstrikes destroy vehicles, locations and munitions. (U.S. Navy)

ISIS unleashes suicide bombers on Iraq, but Pentagon remains upbeat

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

This file photo released on Sunday, May 17, 2015, by the Syrian official news agency SANA, shows the general view of the ancient Roman city of Palmyra, northeast of Damascus, Syria. (SANA via AP, File)

Syrian forces enter ISIS-held Palmyra; intense clashes with militants

By Albert Aji and Sinan Salaheddin - Associated Press

Iraq says it’s launched offensive to recapture ISIS-held Mosul

By Sinan Salaheddin - Associated Press

This photo posted online by PUK shows the Virginia driver's license found on a man who turned himself in to Kurdish forces in northern Iraq on Monday, March 14, 2016. The American Islamic State group fighter who handed himself over to Kurdish forces in Iraq’s north earlier this week says he made “a bad decision” joining IS and traveling to Mosul, according to a heavily edited interview he gave to an Iraqi Kurdish television station that aired late Thursday night, March 17, 2016. (PUK Media via AP, File)

Mohamad Khweis, American ISIS fighter: I made a bad decision

By Kellan Howell - The Washington Times

U.S. soldiers (left) participate in a training mission with Iraqi army soldiers outside Baghdad on May 27, 2015. (Associated Press) **FILE**

As army rebuilds, Iraqi assault to retake Mosul months away

By SUSANNAH GEORGE and QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 7, 2008, file photo, U.S. Army soldiers tour St. Elijah's Monastery on Forward Operating Base Marez in Mosul, Iraq, about 360 kilometers (225 miles) northwest of Baghdad. St. Elijah&#8217;s has officially joined a growing list of more than 100 demolished religious and historic sites, including mosques, tombs, shrines and churches. The Islamic State group has defaced or ruined ancient monuments in Nineveh, Palmyra and Hatra. Museums and libraries have been looted, books burned, artwork crushed. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo, File)

U.S. airstrike on Mosul banks kills Iraqi civilians

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

Yazidis are asking for the Russian military to liberate more than 3,500 Yazidis held captive by the Islamic State, including children in jihadi training camps. They say the young hostages are subjected to "mental conditioning" and being trained as Islamists. (Saad Barkash)

Iraqi Yazidis turn to Russia as West fails to stop Islamic State

By Douglas Burton — Special to The Washington Times