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Iraqi fighters chant slogans against extremists at the front line during a battle against Islamic State militants in Tikrit, 130 kilometers (80 miles) north of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, March 16, 2015. The offensive to retake Saddam Hussein&#8217;s hometown of Tikrit began March 2. The city is one of the largest held by the Islamic State militants on the road connected Baghdad and Mosul. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

Kurds probe 2 possible Islamic State chemical weapon attacks

By Maeva Bambuck and Sinan Salaheddin - Associated Press

Iraqi forces clashed with Islamic State militants in the Qadisiyah neighborhood of Tikrit on Thursday. Iraq's defense minister said the operation to retake Tikrit is "essential to opening a corridor" for Baghdad-aligned forces to move north toward Mosul. (Associated Press)

Tikrit offensive vital in reversing Islamic State gains in Iraq and Syria, analysts say

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

FILE - In this July 27, 2005 file photo, a temple to the Shamash sun god still stands over 1,750 years after the Sassanian empire razed the Mesopotamian city of Hatra, 320 kilometers (200 miles) north of Baghdad, Iraq. Iraq's minister of tourism and antiquities told The Associated Press, Saturday, March 7, 2015, that the government is investigating reports that the ancient archaeological site of Hatra in northwestern Iraq is being demolished by militants from the Islamic State group. The group has already looted artifacts from Nimrud, another ancient archaeological site, on Friday and bulldozed it in a move UNESCO deemed &quot;a war crime.&quot; (AP Photo/Antonio Castaneda, File)

IS destroying another ancient archaeological site in Iraq

By SAMEER N. YACOUB and VIVIAN SALAMA - Associated Press

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu waves as he speaks before a joint meeting of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 3, 2015. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

BRUCE FEIN: Benjamin Netanyahu wrong on Iran

By Bruce Fein

In this image made from video, smoke rises from an explosion as Iraqi forces, Shiite militiamen and Sunni tribal fighters battle Islamic State militants for control of Tikrit, Iraq, Tuesday, March 3, 2015. Backed by Shiite militias and Sunni tribal fighters as well as Iranian advisers, the government forces made little progress on the second day of a large-scale military operation to recapture Tikrit, which fell to the Islamic State group last summer, two local officials said. (AP Photo via AP video)

Mines, bombs slow Iraqi advance on Islamic State-held Tikrit

By Sinan Salaheddin and Sameer N. Yacoub - Associated Press

Iraqi Hezbollah fighters carry the coffin of their comrade, Ali Mansour, who his family says was killed in Tikrit fighting Islamic militants, during his funeral procession, in the Shiite holy city of Najaf, 100 miles (160 kilometers) south of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, March 2, 2015. (AP Photo/Jaber al-Helo)

Iraq launches operation to retake Tikrit from Islamic State

By Sinan Salaheddin - Associated Press

Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

EDITORIAL: Nicolas Maduro’s incompetence breeds disaster in Venezuela

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Jon Stewart Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

EMMETT TYRRELL: Jon Stewart lied about Iraq war

By R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr.

BRUCE FEIN: Foreign policy midwifery

By Bruce Fein

The late Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Rope used in Saddam Hussein execution up for auction: source

By Kellan Howell - The Washington Times

MQ-9 Reaper drone fires a missile. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Abu Malik, Islamic State chemical weapons expert, killed in coalition airstrike

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

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Saddam Hussein’s daughter, Raghad, selling jewelry inspired by the ‘Butcher of Baghdad’

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

The New York Times building (Wikimedia Commons)

TAMMY BRUCE: Maureen Dowd’s self-destruction

By Tammy Bruce - The Washington Times

In this Saturday, Nov. 22, 2014, photo, Iraqi federal policemen search a car at a checkpoint in Baghdad, Iraq. The government is now trying to revamp security measures, moving away from reliance on ubiquitous concrete blast walls and police checkpoints. Instead, the plan is to beef up police intelligence units that have gone understaffed and underfunded since the fall of Saddam Hussein. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)

Iraq to overhaul Baghdad security to stop bombings

By Hamza Hendawi - Associated Press

U.S. President Barak Obama gestures as he answers a question from the media during a press conference at the conclusion of the G-20 summit in Brisbane, Australia, Sunday, Nov. 16, 2014.(AP Photo/Rob Griffith) **FILE**

BRUCE FEIN: Is Obama lying about the Islamic State?

By Bruce Fein

President Clinton speaks after the signing of the Balkan peace treaty at the Elysee Palace in Paris, Dec. 14, 1995. Clinton called it the day that turned the shattered country "from the horror of war to the promise of peace.'' (AP Photo/Michel Gangne/pool)

BRUCE FEIN: Neocons argue U.S. fights too few wars, but they are wrong

By Bruce Fein

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KIM HOLMES: Uncomfortable truths: Explaining away Iraq’s real WMD

By Kim R. Holmes

President Bush speaks to Vice President Dick Cheney by phone aboard Air Force One after departing Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska on Sept. 11, 2001. (AP Photo)

FEIN: Airbrushing Bush’s Iraq War debacle

By Bruce Fein

Illustration on the dangers of renewed involvement in Iraq by Kevin Kreneck/Tribune Content Agency

NAPOLITANO: Mistakes of the past are back in Iraq and Syria

By Andrew P. Napolitano

President Barack Obama addresses the nation from the Cross Hall in the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2014. In a major reversal, Obama ordered the United States into a broad military campaign to &#8220;degrade and ultimately destroy&#8221; militants in two volatile Middle East nations, authorizing airstrikes inside Syria for the first time, as well as an expansion of strikes in Iraq. (AP Photo/Saul Loeb, Pool)

A chastened Obama sounds an awful lot like an earlier Bush

By John Solomon - The Washington Times