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British Prime Minister David Cameron speaks during a joint news conference with President Obama on May 13, 2013, in the East Room of the White House. (Associated Press)

David Cameron confronts Obama on roots of Islamist extremism

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Syrian President Bashar Assad (SANA via AP, File)

MICHAEL HAYDEN: Syria civil war grows worse with each Obama ‘policy’ decision

By Mike Hayden

President Obama speaks during the 70th session of the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters on Sept. 28, 2015. (Associated Press)

Obama vows to defeat the ‘apocalyptic cult’ of the Islamic State

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

U.S. President Barack Obama, right, and Russia's President Vladimir Putin head into a bilateral meeting Monday, Sept. 28, 2015, at United Nations headquarters. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) ** FILE **

Vladimir Putin, Obama spar over Syria at United Nations

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

A Syrian woman holds her child after they arrive aboard a dinghy from Turkey, to the island of Lesbos, Greece, on Saturday, Sept. 19, 2015. A girl about five years old died and at least 13 undocumented refugees and migrants were missing on Saturday after a boat transferring dozens of people from Turkey to Greece overturned off Lesbos island, Greek Coast Guard said. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

Quasi Zarkarya, activists press U.S. to take in more Syrian refugees

By Meghan Bartlett - The Washington Times

A new security report found that eliminating the Islamic State's leaders wouldn't weaken the organization as it has operatives in countries beyond Iraq and Syria. (Associated Press)

Islamic State has trained operators to replace targeted leaders

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

Russian President Vladimir Putin, in his U.N. speech, aims to project power and poke a geopolitical finger in America's eye, intelligence sources say. (Associated Press)

Vladimir Putin’s plans for Russian military in Syria has U.N., Obama on edge

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Some security analysts say Russia's influence in Syria is the latest example of President Obama's inability to confront Vladimir Putin, who has refused to back down from military aggression in Ukraine despite harsh economic sanctions coordinated by the U.S. and its European allies. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Obama meeting with Vladimir Putin snubs ally Egypt

By Judith Miller — Special to The Washington Times

In this Sept. 16, 2015, photo, U.S. Central Command Commander Gen. Lloyd Austin III, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. The Obama administration is preparing a major overhaul of its failed effort to train thousands of moderate Syrian rebels to fight the Islamic State group, shifting from preparing rebels for frontline combat to a plan to embed them with established Kurdish and Arab forces in northeastern Syria, U.S. officials said. The discussion of a new approach comes a day after Austin, told Congress that the $500 million effort to train 5,000 moderate Syrian rebels in a year had yielded "four or five" new fighters after another 50 or so were captured, wounded or fled in their first encounter with extremist militants. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Pentagon confirms: U.S.-trained rebels handed over weapons to al Qaeda operative in Syria

By Kellan Howell - The Washington Times

Syrian President Bashar Assad (SANA via AP, File)

Philip Gordon, former top Obama adviser, slams White House Syria strategy

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Russian President Vladimir Putin inspects the nation's Black Sea fleet at the Crimean port of Sevastopol on May 9, 2014. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Russia to conduct naval drills in the Mediterranean

By Kellan Howell - The Washington Times

Russian President Vladimir Putin shakes hands with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, during their meeting in the Novo-Ogaryovo residence, outside Moscow, Russia, Monday, Sept. 21, 2015. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev, Pool) **FILE**

Israel and Russia to coordinate Syrian military efforts

By Kellan Howell - The Washington Times

Syrians check e-mails and connect to Facebook at an Internet cafe in Damascus on Tuesday. A watchdog says Syria apparently has lifted its ban on social media, perhaps to stave off unrest broiling elsewhere. Internet users previously tunneled through proxy servers to reach such sites. (Associated Press)

Commerce Dept. settles with men who sold U.S.-made spy tools to Syria

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

Gen. John Allen gestures during an interview with the Associated Press in Kabul, Afghanistan, in this July 22, 2012, file photo. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq, File)

White House denies John Allen’s departure linked to weak effort to train Syrian fighters

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Rebels from al Qaeda-affiliated Jabhat al-Nusra, also known as the Nusra Front, wave their brigade flag as they step on the top of a Syrian air force helicopter at Taftanaz air base on Jan. 11, 2013. (Associated Press) **FILE**

U.S.-trained rebels in Syria hand over weapons to al Qaeda affiliate

By Kellan Howell - The Washington Times

Researchers in Syria have requested the first withdrawal of seeds from the Global Seed Bank in Svalbard after a four-year civil war has left the seed bank in Aleppo unable to provide crop seeds to Middle Easter countries. (image: screen grab www.croptrust.org)

Syrian civil war prompts first withdrawal from ‘doomsday’ food vault

By Kellan Howell - The Washington Times

In this Sept. 16, 2015, photo, U.S. Central Command Commander Gen. Lloyd Austin III, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. The Obama administration is preparing a major overhaul of its failed effort to train thousands of moderate Syrian rebels to fight the Islamic State group, shifting from preparing rebels for frontline combat to a plan to embed them with established Kurdish and Arab forces in northeastern Syria, U.S. officials said. The discussion of a new approach comes a day after Austin, told Congress that the $500 million effort to train 5,000 moderate Syrian rebels in a year had yielded "four or five" new fighters after another 50 or so were captured, wounded or fled in their first encounter with extremist militants. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

L. TODD WOOD: U.S.-trained Syrian rebels running scared

By L. Todd Wood

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks at a campaign organizing meeting, Friday, Sept. 18, 2015, in Portland, Maine. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

Hillary Clinton, ex-secretary of state, says U.S. policy on Syria has been a ‘failure’

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond, left, andswers a question about the ongoing crisis in Syria during a news conference with Secretary of State John Kerry, on Saturday, Sept. 19, 2015, in London. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, Pool)

John Kerry: Russian fighter jets in Syria raise serious questions

By Ken Dilanian - Associated Press