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Demonstrators chant pro-al-Qaida-inspired Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) as they wave al-Qaida flags in front of the provincial government headquarters in Mosul, 225 miles (360 kilometers) northwest of 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)

Islamic State claims Israeli spy captured in Syria

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

This undated file image posted on a militant website on Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2014 shows fighters from the al Qaeda-linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) marching in Raqqa, Syria. (AP Photo/Militant Website, File)

Iraqi air base used by Marines attacked after Islamic State takes over nearby town

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Friday, May 9, 2014 file photo Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a parade marking the Victory Day in Sevastopol, Crimea. With hundreds of new aircraft, tanks and missiles rolling off assembly lines and Russian jets buzzing European skies under NATO&#8217;s wary eye, it doesn&#8217;t look like Russia&#8217;s economic woes have had any impact on the Kremlin&#8217;s ambitious military modernization program. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev, File)

Vladimir Putin: ‘We are not going to wage war on anyone’

By Kellan Howell - The Washington Times

In this Thursday Jan. 29, 2015 photo, fighters of the Turkey-based Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) walk in the damaged streets of Sinjar, Iraq. Kurdish forces in recent weeks have retaken parts of the strategic Iraqi town of Sinjar, whose Yazidi population was driven out in a humanitarian disaster last year that triggered U.S. intervention. But disagreements among Kurdish factions makes the hold on the town seem shaky and is threatening the wider fight against Islamic state militants. (AP Photo/Bram Janssen)

Pentagon blasts rare Islamic State attack on Kirkuk

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

Iraqi Army soldiers stand guard as Shiite as Shiite faithful pilgrims march to Karbala for Arbaeen in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, Dec. 6, 2014. The holiday marks the end of the forty day mourning period after the anniversary of the 7th century martyrdom of Imam Hussein, the Prophet Muhammad's grandson. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)

Iraqi forces cry as Shiite militias allegedly massacre 72 ‘like domino pieces’: report

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

Ryan Bundy, son of the Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy, rides an ATV into Recapture Canyon north of Blanding, Utah, on Saturday, May 10, 2014, in a protest against what demonstrators call the federal government's overreaching control of public lands. (AP Photo/The Salt Lake Tribune, Trent Nelson) ** FILE **

Ryan Bundy, son of rancher Cliven Bundy, arrested after fight with police

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Yemeni soldiers guard convicted al Qaeda militants in San'a, Yemen, on July 11, 2010. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Saddiq Al-Abbadi, Ali Alvi interrogations ignite Republican ire

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

Edward Snowden, a former contractor who fled the United States after exposing NSA spy secrets, shared documents with German magazine Der Spiegel that appear to show that China stole sensitive data about U.S. warplanes, including engine schematics and radar design. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Edward Snowden China warplane data theft claim rebutted by U.S. military

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

In this May 28, 1963, file photograph, a group of whites poured sugar, ketchup and mustard over the heads of Tougaloo College student demonstrators at a sit-in demonstration at a Woolworth's lunch counter in downtown Jackson, Miss. (AP Photo/Jackson Daily News, Fred Blackwell, File) ** FILE **

‘Friendship Nine’ to be cleared of 1961 lunch counter sit-in crimes

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

Acting Secret Service Director Joseph Clancy testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington in this Nov. 19, 2014, file photo. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Secret Service reassigns four from protections detail in wake of agency scandals

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

An Iraqi soldier stand guard after a military operation to regain control of villages around the town of Beiji, some 250 kilometers (155 miles) north of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Dec. 8, 2014. The commander of U.S. forces fighting the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, Army Lt. Gen. James Terry says the extremist group has been thrown on the defensive, because coalition airstrikes and other measures are taking a toll on IS ability to communicate. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

Iraq complains: Obama coalition not doing enough to stop Islamic State

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

This booking photo provided by the Seminole County Public Affairs shows George Zimmerman on Saturday, Jan. 10, 2015. The Seminole County Sheriff's Office says Zimmerman, 31,was arrested on an aggravated assault charge in Lake Mary about 10 p.m. Friday and is being held at the John E. Polk Correctional Facility. Zimmerman was acquitted in 2013 of a second-degree murder charge for shooting an unarmed teenager, Trayvon Martin. (AP Photo/Seminole County Public Affairs)

George Zimmerman charged with aggravated assault in domestic dispute

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

Flowers adorn the fresh grave of slain 18-year-old Antonio Sanchez Valencia as mourners bury another victim from the same shooting in Apatzingan, Michoacan state, Mexico, Thursday, Jan. 8, 2015. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell) ** FILE **

Mexican cartel recruits eat human hearts in cannibalistic initiation ceremonies

By Kellan Howell - The Washington Times

Burnsville Police Department Sgt. Chris Wicklund wears a camera beneath his microphone in this Nov. 5, 2014, file photo. (AP Photo/Jim Mone, File)

Los Angeles police order Tasers that activate body cameras

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

Free Syrian Army members train outside Idlib, Syria, Feb. 7, 2012. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Syrian rebels to begin joint U.S.-Turkey training in March

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

This undated photo provided by Christie's shows Andy Warhol's &quot;Triple Elvis (Ferus Type),&quot; which is going on the auction block at Christie's in New York this November. The Elvis, executed in ink and silver paint in 1963, depicts the rock 'n' roll heartthrob as a cowboy, armed and shooting from the hip. (AP Photo/Christie's)

Elvis Presley’s personal jets for sale; ‘Lisa Marie,’ ‘Hound Dog II’ expected to fetch over $10M

By Kellan Howell - The Washington Times

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Venezuela’s milk shortage forces Guinness World Records ice cream shop to close

By Kellan Howell - The Washington Times