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Sunni radicals with the Islamic State of Iraq have demanded that Iraqi shopkeepers in Mosul cover the faces of all mannequins. (Associated Press)

ISIL now forcing Iraqi shopkeepers to veil mannequins in Mosul

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

An Iraqi nun speaks with a Christian man who fled with his family from the Christian villages near Mosul at a school that was turned into a shelter for displaced Christian families, in Ainkawa, a suburb of Irbil, Iraq. The Islamic State group gave Mosul's Christians until midday Saturday to convert to Islam, pay a tax or face death. (Associated Press)

Islamic State’s threats on Christians used to win support of Muslims

By Meredith Somers - The Washington Times

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. (AP Photo, Hadi Mizban, File)

Iraqi PM condemns jihadis’ targeting of Christians

Associated Press

** FILE ** Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the shadowy leader of the Islamic State, delivers a sermon posted on social media outlets that the militants use. (Associated Press)

Elusive target: U.S. believed Iraq terror mastermind al-Baghdadi killed 3 times

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is shown in a video delivering a sermon Friday at the Grand Mosque in Mosul, Iraq. His sudden public appearance after years of building and running his militant operations from hideouts suggests growing confidence in his security. (Associated Press)

Christians flee Mosul after ISIL threat: Convert to Islam or die

By Phillip Swarts - The Washington Times

This image taken with a mobile phone camera shows people passing a black flag used by Islamic militants and a police cruiser belonging to the Islamic State group in front of the provincial government headquarters in Mosul, 225 miles (360 kilometers) northwest of Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, July 15, 2014. The panic that initially gripped Iraq after Sunni militants led by the Islamic State extremist group seized the country's second-largest city, Mosul, and swept across northern and western Iraq has largely subsided.(AP Photo)

ISIL ratchets siege of Christians by starving those in Mosul

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is shown in a video delivering a sermon Friday at the Grand Mosque in Mosul, Iraq. His sudden public appearance after years of building and running his militant operations from hideouts suggests growing confidence in his security. (Associated Press)

ISIL leader emerges in sign of bravado as Iraqi government flounders

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the shadowy leader of the Islamic State, delivers a sermon posted on social media outlets that the militants use. (Associated Press)

ISIL shows increasing strength and structure, takes war where al Qaeda couldn’t

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi (Image: ISIL video screen shot)

Islamic State ‘caliph’ calls on all Muslims to ‘obey’ him during Ramadan prayer service

By Kellan Howell - The Washington Times

This undated image posted by the Raqqa Media Center, a Syrian opposition group, on Monday, June 30, 2014, which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting, shows fighters from the al Qaeda linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) during a parade in Raqqa, Syria. (AP Photo/Raqqa Media Center)

ISIL destroying Shiite mosques, holy sites in seized territory

Associated Press

Iraqi security forces celebrate after clashes with followers of Shiite cleric Mahmoud al-Sarkhi, in front of his home in the Shiite holy city of Karbala, 50 miles (80 kilometers) south of Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, July 2, 2014. (AP Photo/Ahmed al-Husseini)

Indian nurses who were kidnapped cross into Iraqi Kurdish region

By Qassim Abdul-Zahra and Muneeza Naqvi - Associated Press

Security forces patrol on Tahrir Square in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, June 16, 2014. Sunni militants captured a key northern Iraqi town along the highway to Syria early on Monday, compounding the woes of Iraq's Shiite-led government a week after it lost a vast swath of territory to the insurgents in the country's north. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

Sunni militants capture Iraqi city near Syria

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA and SAMEER N. YACOUB - Associated Press

This image posted on a militant website on Saturday, June 14, 2014, which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting, appears to show militants from the al-Qaida-inspired Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) with truckloads of captured Iraqi soldiers after taking over a base in Tikrit, Iraq. (AP Photo via militant website)

Obama ignored general’s pleas to keep American forces in Iraq

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

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

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi

Al-Baghdadi, a brutal contender for bin Laden’s mantle, emerges in Iraq

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times