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Islamic State attacks on Istanbul Ataturk Airport and other targets around the world are part of a plan of expansion and not desperate responses to losses of land as Secretary of State John F. Kerry has asserted, according to terrorism analysts. (Associated Press)

Islamic State recent attacks counter John Kerry’s claim of despair

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

The 15-minute video, produced by its media company Al-Furqan, sets out a list of committees, government departments and local province councils — a chain of command that carries out orders from reclusive "caliph" Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. (Associated Press)

ISIS counters Obama narrative in video detailing functional, expansive ‘caliphate’

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

Passengers embrace at the entrance to Istanbul's Ataturk Airport after evacuating during Tuesday's attack. (Associated Press)

Turkey airport attack gives Recep Tayyip Erdogan incentive to battle ISIS

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Brett McGurk, President Obama's envoy to members of the anti-Islamic State coalition, told a Capitol Hill hearing that Islamic State officials are telling recruits in the West to stay put and conduct attacks at home rather than travel to the Salafist group's base in Syria, where its control is increasingly under threat. (Associated Press)

ISIS tells recruits in West to stay put, conduct attacks

By Jessie Fox - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Oct. 7, 2011, file photo, President Barack Obama, right, smiles at former defensive coordinator Buddy Ryan, speaking left, as he stands with the 1985 Super Bowl XX Champions Chicago Bears football team during a ceremony on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington. Buddy Ryan, who coached two defenses that won Super Bowl titles and whose twin sons Rex and Rob have been successful NFL coaches, died Tuesday, June 28, 2016. He was 82. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

Intel, Obama and walking away from the red line in Syria

By Mike Hayden - The Washington Times

In this Sunday June 19, 2016 photo, a Lebanese army soldier stand guards at one of the frontline hills where they are fighting militants, at the edge of the town of Arsal, on the Syrian border, in northeast Lebanon. The Lebanese army is fighting a war against the Islamic State and al-Qaida and has clawed significant territory back from the extremists. The fighting and shelling near the eastern border town of Arsal occur almost daily. Some 5,000 Lebanese soldiers are fighting against a dwindling number of militants. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Lebanese army slowly crushing extremists near Syria border

By BASSEM MROUE and ANDREA ROSA - Associated Press

Illustration on the need for Syrian safe zones by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Reconsidering safe zones in Syria

By John Cappello and Patrick Megahan

Illustration on ineffectual Obama administration strategies against ISIS by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

Obama’s disintegrating ISIS strategy

By Jed Babbin

A misplaced protest in Syria

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

An F-18 Super Hornet flies ahead of the USS John C. Stennis while in the Pacific, 2013. (Image: U.S. Navy)

Putin, Obama tag-bombing in Syria

By L. Todd Wood

Rather than shrinking, the Islamic State — also known as ISIL and ISIS — is metastasizing globally by attracting waves of henchmen in Libya, Egypt, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, Yemen and Afghanistan, the Congressional Research Service said in a June 14 report for lawmakers. (Associated Press)

ISIS expands beyond Iraq-Syria base with six armies on three continents

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

FILE - In this undated file image posted by the Raqqa Media Center, in Islamic State group-held territory, on Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2014, which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting, fighters from the Islamic State group pray at the Tabqa air base after capturing it from the Syrian government in Raqqa, Syria. A two-pronged advance to capture key urban strongholds of the Islamic State, and the extremist group's self-styled capital of Raqqa has underlined a convergence of strategy between Washington and Moscow to defeat the extremist group, with Syria's Kurds emerging as the common denominator. (Raqqa Media Center of the Islamic State group via AP, File)

Syrian forces advance on IS-held air base

By PHILIP ISSA - Associated Press

In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian President Bashar Assad speaks in Damascus, Syria, Tuesday, June 7, 2016. State Department officials shook up America’s generally obedient diplomatic establishment this week with an internal memo urging U.S. military action against Syria’s government with the goal of pressing Assad to accept a cease-fire and gaining the upper hand on him in future talks on a political transition. (SANA via AP)

Obama admin struggles to contain fallout from leaked Syria memo

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

The House voted this week not to close the Guantanamo Bay detention center, one of President Obama's long-held wish list items. (Associated Press)

House pushes back against Obama’s plan to close Guantanamo, votes to stop detainee transfers

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

"Unfortunately, despite all our progress against ISIL on the battlefield and in the financial realm, our efforts have not reduced the group's terrorism capability and global reach," CIA Director John O. Brennan testified. (Associated Press)

ISIS promoting ‘lone wolf’ attacks, scheming to infiltrate West, John Brennan says

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Under President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey has argued that its interests are too often overlooked. (Associated Press)

Turkey wavers on ISIS fight amid rising tensions with U.S., allies

By Carlo Muñoz and Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Omar Mateen opened fire inside a crowded gay nightclub Sunday, police said. (Associated Press)

Omar Mateen on FBI radar as known ISIS sympathizer

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

Mohamad Jamal Khweis, an American who was captured by Kurdish Peshmerga forces after he left the Islamic State group, spoke on Kurdistan 24 news station about his time with the terrorists. (Image: NBC screenshot) ** FILE **

Mohamad Khweis, U.S. ISIS defector, faces federal terrorism charge

By Andrea Noble - The Washington Times