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Russian President Vladimir Putin said Turkey acted contrary to its own interests by downing a Russian warplane. (Associated Press/File)

Russia calling the shots as nations lock down Syria plan

By Bradley Klapper - Associated Press

In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian President Bashar Assad speaks during an interview with the Spanish news agency EFE, in Damascus, Syria, Friday, Dec. 11, 2015. Assad said in the interview that Saudi Arabia, the United States and some Western countries want "terrorist groups" to join peace negotiations to try end Syria's civil war. The Syrian government refers to all insurgent groups as terrorists. (SANA via AP) ** FILE **

Bashar Assad not likely to face war crimes charges as world leaders broker Syria peace deal

By Kellan Howell - The Washington Times

Members of the new unit "BFE+" of the German federal police exercise in Ahrensfelde, Germany, Wednesday Dec. 16, 2015. Germany on Wednesday introduced a new police unit that officials said will be better armed, outfitted and trained to deal with terrorism, based on an analysis of the country's security in the wake of deadly attacks in Paris earlier this year. (Bernd von Jutrczenka/dpa via AP)

L. TODD WOOD: German ex-ISIS militant: Coordinated attacks planned across Europe

By L. Todd Wood

US Secretary of State, John Kerry, speaks at a joint press conference with Russian Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov, at the Kremlin, Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2015 in Moscow. Earlier, in talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, Kerry said the world benefits when great powers agree in their approaches to major crises. (Mandel Ngan/Pool Photo via AP)

John Kerry changes stance on Syria: ‘U.S. not seeking regime change’

By Kellan Howell - The Washington Times

A woman holds a poster reading "Turkey to account!" as others wave Russian and Syrian national flags during a picket at the Turkish Embassy in Moscow on Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2015. Russian President Vladimir Putin called Turkey's decision to down a Russian jet near the Syria border a "stab in the back." (Associated Press)

L. TODD WOOD: Russia: Turkey poses ‘real threat’

By L. Todd Wood

"Sen. [Rand] Paul and Sen. [Ted] Cruz are both isolationist," Sen. Lindsey Graham said, arguing that the United States should go after ISIS in Iraq and Syria and reinstate the NSA's controversial bulk metadata program. (Associated Press)

Lindsey Graham says Ted Cruz, Rand Paul are ‘isolationists’

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

This still image made from video released by the U.S. Central Command on Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2014, shows a structure in Tall Al Qitar, Syria moments after a U.S. airstrike. In three waves of nighttime attacks launched over four hours early on Tuesday, the U.S. and its Arab partners made more than 200 airstrikes against roughly a dozen militant targets in Syria. (AP Photo/US Central Command)

U.S. has mapped ISIS propaganda centers but won’t launch military strikes

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Vulnerable Security System Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

MARTHA MCSALLY, WILL HURD, JOHN KATKO: How to defeat ISIS

By Martha McSally and Will Hurd and John Katko

Migrants family wait to register with the police in a refugee center in the southern Serbian town of Presevo, Monday, Nov. 16, 2015. Refugees fleeing war by the tens of thousands fear the Paris attacks could prompt Europe to close its doors, especially after police said a Syrian passport found next to one attacker&#8217;s body suggested its owner passed through Greece into the European Union and on through Macedonia and Serbia last month. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

ISIS may have seized passport printing machine, U.S. officials say

By Kellan Howell - The Washington Times

This image posted online on Sunday, Oct. 4, 2015, by supporters of the Islamic State militant group, purports to show Mohammed Dalaeen, a son of Jordanian parliament member Mazen Dalaeen. The photo has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting. (Militant photo via AP)

Profiles of radicals reveal numerous paths to extremism

By JOSEPH KRAUSS - Associated Press

US Secretary of State John Kerry, right, walks with White House senior advisor Brian Deese, left, and US Special Envoy for Climate Change Todd Stern, centre, to attend a meeting with French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius during the COP 21 United Nations conference on climate change at Le Bourget, on the outskirts of Paris, on Thursday Dec. 10, 2015. (Mandel Ngan Pool via AP)

Kerry praises Syrian opposition gathering but divisions remain

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

A member of the band Eagles of Death Metal, Jesse Hughes, pays his respects to 89 victims who died in a Nov. 13 attack, at the Bataclan concert hall in Paris, France, Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2015. Members of the California rock band Eagles of Death Metal are back at the ravaged Paris theater where they survived a massacre by Islamic extremist suicide bombers. (AP Photo/Jacques Brinon)

Foued Mohamed-Aggad, third Bataclan bomber, traveled to Syria in 2013, officials confirm

By Kellan Howell - The Washington Times

House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Michael T. McCaul says President Obama's plan to allow 10,000 Syrian refugees into the U.S. may allow Islamic State operatives to sneak into the country among those seeking freedom. (Associated Press photographs)

Michael McCaul of Homeland Security Committee calls for end to Obama Syrian refugee program

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

President Obama mostly watched as the Islamic State, defeated by U.S. forces in 2009, reassembled the old al Qaeda in Iraq leadership apparatus across the border amid the turmoil of the Syrian civil war. (Associated Press)

ISIS expanded as Obama stayed on the sidelines

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

This image posted online Sunday, Dec. 6, 2015, by supporters of the Islamic State militant group on an anonymous photo sharing website, shows smoke rising in the aftermath of an airstrike that targeted areas in Raqqa, Syria. The photo bears the watermark of Islamic State media releases and is consistent with other AP reporting. The Arabic caption on the photo reads, &quot;Russian warplanes target homes of Muslims in Raqqa.” (militant photo via AP) ** FILE **

Syria: 3 troops killed by U.S.-led strikes; U.S. blames Russia

By ZEINA KARAM and LOLITA C. BALDOR - Associated Press

Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, shown here speaking at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum in Grand Rapids, Mich., in 2013. (AP Photo/The Grand Rapids Press, Emily Zoladz) ALL LOCAL TV OUT; LOCAL TV INTERNET OUT

RAHAT HUSAIN: How to stop ISIS

By Rahat Husain

"As commander-in-chief, I have no greater responsibility than the security of the American people," President Obama said. "The threat from terrorism is real, but we will overcome it." (Associated Press)

Obama tries to calm fears about ISIS attacks, calls for gun control measures

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, left, speaks with Belgian Foreign Minister Didier Reynders, before a session on Ukraine at the NATO ministerial meetings at NATO Headquarters in Brussels, Wednesday Dec. 2, 2015. (Jonathan Ernst/ Pool via AP)

John Kerry says NATO members ready to step up anti-ISIS fight

By Bradley Klapper - The Washington Times

British Prime Minister David Cameron talks to lawmakers inside the House of Commons in London during a debate on launching airstrikes against Islamic State extremists inside Syria, Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2015. The parliamentary vote is expected Wednesday evening. (Parliamentary Recording Unit via AP Video)

U.K. Parliament to vote on expanded attacks on Islamic State

By Danica Kirka and Gregory Katz - Associated Press