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Iraqi woman activist killed by Islamic State

By Vivian Salama - Associated Press

President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden meet with members of the National Security Council in the Situation Room of the White House, Sept. 10, 2014. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)

President Obama’s war advisers not instilling confidence on Islamic State strategy

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

This Monday, Sept. 15, 2014, photo shows bas-relief inscriptions at the Iraqi National Museum in Baghdad. When the Islamic State group overran the northern city of Mosul and surrounding Ninevah province in June, they captured a region were nearly 1,800 of Iraq’s 12,000 registered archaeological sites are located. They snapped up even more as they pushed south toward Baghdad. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

Militants threaten ancient sites in Iraq, Syria

By Sinan Salaheddin - Associated Press

Fighters from the Islamic State group parade in a commandeered Iraqi security forces armored vehicle down a main road at the northern city of Mosul, Iraq, in this Monday, June 23, 2014. (AP Photo, File)

Islamic State group issues new school curriculum omitting history, literature, art

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, leader of the al Qaeda splinter group the Islamic State, has rarely been photographed. (Associated Press)

Islamic State terrorist group expanded power gradually: report

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

desperation: Displaced Yazidi Iraqis gather for food at the Nowruz camp in Derike, Syria. While the U.S. and Iraqi militaries have given food and water, the Kurds took it on themselves to rescue them, a sign of how Syria's Kurds are using the conflict to establish their own rule. (Associated Press)

U.S. Yazidis wary of arming Kurdish fighters in northern Iraq

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Displaced Iraqi Christian girls who fled with their parents from the Christian village near Mosul province in Iraq, play by their balloons at a temporary shelter for the displaced Christian families in Ankawa, a suburb of Irbil, with a majority Christian population, Iraq. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

HUSAIN: Fleeing Iraqi Christians find safe haven at the Shrine of Imam Ali

By Rahat Husain

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: No U.S. support for Christian peril

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

** FILE ** This undated file image posted on a militant website on Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2014, which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting, shows fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) marching in Raqqa, Syria. (AP Photo/Militant Website, File)

Islamic State orders female genital mutilation for Mosul girls, U.N. says

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times