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FILE - This is a Friday, May 22, 2015 file photo of British Prime Minister David Cameron as he speaks during a media conference at the conclusion of the Eastern Partnership summit in Riga, Latvia. Cameron declared Sunday July 19, 2015 that Britain needs to take a greater role in destroying the Islamic State group in Syria, his most direct signal to date that he will seek to expand his country's role in supporting the United States and its allies. (AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis, File)

UK leader signals support for airstrikes on IS in Syria

By DANICA KIRKA - Associated Press

Illustration on the Kurds as an effective foe to ISIS by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

DOUGLAS BURTON, MARIOS PANAGIOTIS EFTHYMIOPOULOS: Arming the Kurds to defeat ISIS

By Douglas Burton and Marios Panagiotis Efthymiopoulos

President Obama asked Americans to wait for more facts about the Chattanooga shootings, and did not use the word "terror" to describe the attack. (Associated Press)

Chattanooga shootings: Obama policies blamed for rise in domestic terrorism

By Dave Boyer and Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

President Obama speaks at the NAACP's 106th national convention at the Philadelphia Convention Center, July 14, 2015, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) ** FILE **

Obama defends Iran nuclear deal as best chance for peace

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

ISIS Dominoes Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

WILLIAM TRIPLETT: Syria’s collapse crushing millions

By William C. Triplett II

In this photo released on June 23, 2015, by a website of Islamic State militants, an Islamic State militant looks through the scope of his rifle in Kirkuk, northern Iraq. Though best known for its horrific brutalities — from its grotesque killings of captives to enslavement of women — the Islamic State group has proved to be a highly organized and flexible fighting force, according to senior Iraqi military and intelligence officials and Syrian Kurdish commanders on the front lines. (Militant website via AP)

Islamic State’s secret to its success: Shock troops who fight to the death

By Hamza Hendawi and Qassim Abdul-Zahra and Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said that the U.S. train-and-equip mission to bolster Iraqi and Syrian forces for combat against the Islamic State has been hamstrung due to a lack of local recruits willing to fight the terrorist army. (Associated Press)

Islamic State fight hamstrung by low local troop levels

By Jacqueline Klimas - The Washington Times

Sunni tribal volunteers march during their graduation ceremony in Habaniyah, 80 kilometers (50 miles) west of Baghdad on June 17, 2015. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Ashton Carter: U.S. forces training 500 Sunnis at Al Taqaddum in Iraq

By Jacqueline Klimas - The Washington Times

President Barack Obama speaks in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. Defense Secretary Ash Carter's blunt assessment that Iraqi forces lack the "will to fight" undermines a central premise of President Barack Obama's strategy for defeating the Islamic State: that Iraq's military can effectively handle ground operations so American forces don't have to. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Obama to finally outline strategy for defeating Islamic State

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Defense Secretary Ash Carter waits to testify on Capitol Hill in Washington in this June 17, 2015, file photo. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File) ** FILE **

Ashton Carter: Increase in Syria strikes due to Kurds’ success against Islamic State

By Jacqueline Klimas - The Washington Times

LETTER TO THE EDITOR; Syria’s Druze need Israel’s military support, safe haven

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

A Kurdish YPG fighter at a base in northeastern Syria said his M-16 assault rifle, stamped with the words "Property of U.S. Govt," was captured from the Islamic State, which probably took it from the Iraqi army. (Campbell MacDiarmid/Special to The Washington Times)

YPG Kurdish fighters’ success against Islamic State makes Turkey nervous

By Campbell MacDiarmid - Special to The Washington Times

Rep. Michael T. McCaul, Texas Republican. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

House panel’s ‘Terror Threat Snapshot’ shows sharp uptick in Islamic State plots

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Nov. 13, 2013 file photo, a CIA is seen in Atlanta. When the CIA killed al-Qaida’s second-in-command in Yemen last month, Obama administration officials celebrated. But many experts are questioning whether the demise of another senior extremist, the latest in a long line of militants to be taken off the battlefield, make the United States and its allies any safer from terrorism. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)

Obama’s counterterrorism policy facing mounting criticism

By KEN DILANIAN - Associated Press

A B-1B Lancer after refueling during U.S.-led airstrikes on ISIS targets in Syria. Military intervention alone won't avert violent upheaval in the Middle East, says Nasir Shansab. (AP Photo/Staff Sgt. Ciara Wymbs, U.S. Air Force)

Tariq bin Tahar al-‘Awin al-Harzi, Islamic State leader, killed in airstrike

By Jacqueline Klimas - The Washington Times

Islamic State militants open fire toward a Syrian warplane in the predominantly Kurdish Syrian city of Hassakeh, Syria. (Associated Press)

Islamic State nears Syria’s chemical weapons stockpile; U.S. unprepared for attack

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has dominated the political scene for more than a dozen years, campaigned on behalf of his former party, the Islamist-rooted Peace and Development Party (AKP), appealing to voters to elect at least 300 parliamentarians to help push through a constitution that would expand his powers as an executive. (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: An implosion in Syria

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Police officers guard the road leading to a plant where an attack took place in Saint-Quentin-Fallavier, southeast of Lyon, France, Friday, June 26, 2015. A man with suspected ties to French Islamic radicals rammed a car Friday into an American gas factory in southeastern France, triggering an explosion which caused injuries, officials said. The severed head of a local businessman was left hanging at the factory's entrance, along with banners with Arabic inscriptions, they said. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

Beheading at French gas plant attack is Islamic State trademark, prosecutor says

By Philippe Sotto - Associated Press