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This Monday, Aug. 31, 2015, satellite image provided by UNITAR-UNOSAT shows damage to the main building of the ancient Temple of Bel in the Palmyra, Syria. The main building has been destroyed, a United Nations agency said. The image was taken a day after a massive explosion was set off near the 2,000-year-old temple in the city occupied by Islamic State militants. (UrtheCast, UNITAR-UNOSAT via AP)

Temple of Bel in Syria ‘destroyed,’ satellite images show

By Albert Aji and Sarah El Deeb - Associated Press

Syrian President Bashar Assad continues to be a thorn in U.S.-Russia talks for peace in the Middle East as the U.S. backs Mr. Assad while Russia supports nearby Iran against him. (Associated Press)

Syrian peace may hinge on Moscow’s game plan

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Mualem, right, meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow's Kremlin, Russia on Monday, June 29, 2015. (Alexei Nikolsky/RIA Novosti, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP) ** FILE **

Russia emerges as key player in new round of Syria diplomacy

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

In this image made from video posted on a social media account affiliated with the Islamic State group on Thursday, Feb. 26, 2015, which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting, a militant topples an ancient artifact in the Ninevah Museum in Mosul, Iraq. (AP Photo via militant social media account) ** FILE **

FBI warns art dealers of antiquities looted by Islamic State; stolen art could fund terrorists

By Kellan Howell - The Washington Times

In this Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2015, photo, Syrian girl Salam Rashid, 14, who lost both of her legs below the knee in 2012 in a tank shell attack, poses for a picture at the MSF Hospital for Specialized Reconstructive Surgery in Amman, Jordan. The international charity Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) officially inaugurates in Amman next month its new reconstructive surgery hospital for war victims, which it says is unique in the region. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

New hospital in Jordan treats worst of Mideast’s war-wounded

By Karin Laub - Associated Press

Hillary's War Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

ANDREW NAPOLITANO: What if Hillary Clinton doesn’t care?

By Andrew P. Napolitano

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on July 19, 2015. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Israel fights back, launches airstrikes at Syria

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Sept. 27, 2002, file photo, a symbolic trade caravan representing the prosperous trade during the era of Queen Zanobya 260-273AD attend a show held in the ancient city of Palmyra, some 240 kilometers (150 miles) northeast of Damascus, Syria. Islamic State militants beheaded 81-year-old Khaled al-Asaad, a leading Syrian antiquities scholar who spent most of his life looking after the ancient ruins of Palmyra, then hung his body from a pole in a main square of the historic town, Syrian activists and the scholar's relatives said Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2015. (AP Photo/Bassem Tellawi, File)

Islamic State destroys monastery in Syria

By Kellan Howell - The Washington Times

This image made from a video released Feb. 15, 2015, by militants in Libya claiming loyalty to the Islamic State purportedly shows Egyptian Coptic Christians in orange jumpsuits being led along a beach before being executed. (Associated Press)

Islamic State takes hold in Libya; Arab League weighs airstrikes in emergency meeting

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Republican presidential candidate Sen. Lindsey Graham, South Carolina Republican, says his foreign policy experience qualifies him fight terrorism as president. (Associated Press)

Lindsey Graham, Carly Fiorina, Jeb Bush offer plans to fight terrorism

By Anjali Shastry - The Washington Times

Outgoing Army Chief of Staff Gen. Ray Odierno speaks during his final news briefing, Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2015, at the Pentagon. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Ray Odierno: U.S. troops needed in Iraq

By Kellan Howell - The Washington Times

In this photo taken on June 15, 2015, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush stands on the stage before announcing his bid for the Republican presidential nomination, at Miami Dade College in Miami. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

Jeb Bush links Hillary Clinton to rise of Islamic State

By Thomas Beaumont - Associated Press

In this June 16, 2014, file photo, demonstrators chant pro-Islamic State group slogans as they carry the group's flags in front of the provincial government headquarters in Mosul, Iraq. Under its leader, Iraqi jihadi Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the Islamic State group top command is dominated by former officers from Saddam Hussein's military and intelligence agencies, according to senior Iraqi officers and top intelligence officials. (AP Photo, File) **FILE**

Adam Dandach, a California college student, pleads guilty of trying to support Islamic State

By Brian Melley - Associated Press

Syrian rebels have voiced serious reservations about a U.S. program to train moderate opposition fighters in Jordan, dismissing it as a drop in the ocean that would not change realities on the ground. (Associated Press)

Obama’s Syria ‘safe zone’ plan lacks moderate rebels needed to carry it out

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

An US F16 fighter jet takes off from a Romanian air base in Campia Turzii, Romania, Thursday, April 10, 2014. Some 450 U.S. and Romanian troops are taking part in the Dacian Viper 2014 joint military exercise in Transylvania, northwestern Romania flying U.S. F-16 fighter jets of the U.S. 31st Fighter Wing alongside Romanian Mig-21 Lancers.The weeklong exercise, the fourth of its kind, was planned before Russia&#8217;s recent annexation of Crimea, according to officials.(AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

6 US F-16 jets arrive in Turkey to fight IS

Associated Press

In this Monday, June 16, 2014 file photo, demonstrators chant pro-Islamic State group slogans as they wave the group's flags in front of the provincial government headquarters in Mosul, 225 miles (360 kilometers) northwest of Baghdad, Iraq. (AP Photo/File)

U.S. should embed military advisers to fight Islamic State, think tank says

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

In this Wednesday, July 29, 2015, file photo, a missile-loaded Turkish Air Force warplane rises in the sky after taking off from Incirlik Air Base, in Adana, southern Turkey. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel, file)

Turkey says ‘extensive’ fight against Islamic State to start soon

By Suzan Fraser - Associated Press

USS Theodore Roosevelt in Operation Inherent Resolve

USS Theodore Roosevelt in Operation Inherent Resolve