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This Monday, Nov. 3, 2014, photo provided by the U.S. Navy shows an F-35C Joint Strike Fighter conducts an approach on the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz, 40 miles off San Diego, Calif. The Navy has completed the first two landings of F-35C Joint Strike Fighters, a milestone for the new plane. (AP Photo/U.S. Navy, Andy Wolfe)

Air Force, Navy restocked with planes, missiles as Congress counters U.S. air power decline

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

While U.S. forces have conducted over 7,000 sorties over Iraq and Syria in 2015, only 25 percent had at least one "weapons release" upon Islamic State ground positions. (Associated Press)

U.S. general says air war against IS forces has been effective

By ROBERT BURNS - Associated Press

The apartment building where David Wright was taken into custody the previous day, is seen, Wednesday, June 3, 2015, in Everett, Mass. Wright will face federal charges Wednesday in Boston in connection to the investigation of Usaama Rahim, who had been under 24-hour surveillance by terrorism investigators, and who was killed after he lunged with a knife at a Boston police officer and an FBI agent. (AP Photo/Phil Marcelo)

Terror plot against Boston police officer alarms Capitol Hill lawmakers

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

In its latest efforts, the terror group Islamic State is using social media to recruit jihadis to its self-styled paradise on earth, hoping to lure trained professionals like doctors and builders to improve the stateless group's infrastructure in Iraq and Syria. (Associated Press)

Islamic State recruits Westerners with promise of Muslim utopia

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

Bombing Run Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

ANGELO CODEVILLA: Islamic State is America’s business; Middle East rulers are not

By Angelo M. Codevilla

In this undated file photo released by a militant website, which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting, militants of the Islamic State group hold up their weapons and wave its flags on their vehicles in a convoy on a road leading to Iraq, while riding in Raqqa city in Syria. (Militant website via AP, file)

Study says girls seek ‘sisterhood’ — not just jihadi marriage — in Islamic State

By Danica Kirka - Associated Press

In this photo released on May 20, 2015, provided by the Kurdish fighters of the People's Protection Units (YPG), which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, Kurdish fighters of the YPG, flash victory signs as they sit on their pickup on their way to battle against the Islamic State, near Kezwan mountain, northeast Syria. In contrast to the failures of the Iraqi army, in Syria Kurdish fighters are on the march against the Islamic State group, capturing towns and villages in an oil-rich swath of the country's northeast in recent days, under the cover of U.S.-led airstrikes. (The Kurdish fighters of the People's Protection Units via AP)

Kurdish fighters in Syria on the march against IS militants

By BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

President Barack Obama passes then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton before delivering a policy address on events in the Middle East at the State Department in Washington on May 19, 2011. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Hillary Clinton-tied think tank bashes Obama’s ISIS war strategy

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

ILAN BERMAN: No substitute for seriousness in Iraq

By Ilan Berman

Farcical Obama Speech Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

CAL THOMAS: Obama’s hot-air Coast Guard commencement address

By Cal Thomas

"Airstrikes are effective, but neither they, nor really anything we do, can substitute for the Iraqi forces' will to fight. They're the ones who [need] that to beat ISIL and then keep them beaten," Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said. (Associated Press)

Ashton Carter: Iraqi forces showed ‘no will to fight’ in Ramadi

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

FILE - This file photo released on Sunday, May 17, 2015, by the Syrian official news agency SANA shows the general view of the ancient Roman city of Palmyra, northeast of Damascus, Syria. Members of the Islamic State group have captured the ancient town raising fears that the extremists will destroy its archaeological sites that have stood for two millennia. Palmyra, home to one of the Middle East's most famous UNESCO world heritage sites, was under full control of militants on Thursday after troops withdrew to nearby bases. (SANA via AP, File)

Syrian official: Islamic State militants in Palmyra’s museum

By ALBERT AJI and SARAH EL DEEB - Associated Press

In this Oct. 7, 2014, file photo, Turkish Kurds sit on the outskirts of Suruc, on the Turkey-Syria border, as they watch smoke rising from a fire following an airstrike in Kobani, Syria, where the fighting between militants of the Islamic State group and Kurdish forces intensified. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

CENTCOM: U.S. airstrikes in Syria killed two civilian children

By Jacqueline Klimas - The Washington Times

FILE - 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, militants attack ancient artifacts with sledgehammers in the Ninevah Museum in Mosul, Iraq. Islamic State militants have looted and vandalized the museum in Mosul, Iraq&#8217;s 2nd largest city, and have massively damaged the ancient cities of Hatra and Ninevah both UNESCO world heritage sites. (AP Photo via militant social media account, File)

Obama’s Islamic State solution still military advisers in Iraq, says U.S.-led coalition winning

By Dave Boyer and Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

****COPYRIGHT CLAIM****FILE - This is an undated file photo of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, in Afghanistan. Say you're sorry. That's what the Pakistani government says it wants from the United States in order to jump-start a number of initiatives between the two countries that would help the hunt for al Qaeda in Pakistan and smooth the end of the war in Afghanistan. Pakistan wants the U.S. to apologize for a border incident in November 2011 in which the U.S. killed 24 Pakistani troops in an airstrike. The Pakistanis have put the apology at the top of a long list of demands to address what they see as insults to national pride and sovereignty _ from the Navy SEAL raid onto Pakistani territory last year that killed Osama bin Laden to the steady U.S. drone strikes on Pakistani territory. (AP Photo, File)

Osama bin Laden seen as isolated, frustrated in documents

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

President Barack Obama gives the commencement address as he attends the U.S. Coast Guard Academy graduation in New London, Conn., Wednesday, May 20, 2015. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Obama: Climate change a threat to homeland security, hurts military readiness

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

President Barack Obama, accompanied by then-Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, in this Sept. 12, 2012, file photo. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) ** FILE **

Obama, Hillary Clinton Benghazi narrative rebutted by Defense Department report

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

In this picture taken, Wednesday, May 6, 2015, Syrian refugee Fatmeh Ahmed, 20, holds her 10-month-old son, Hassan, in their shack on a peach farm near the northern Jordanian community of Salhiyeh. Ahmed, and her husband live on $9-a-day jobs on the farm, after they lost $100 a month in food vouchers due to cuts by the cash-strapped World Food Program. (AP Photo/Raad Adayleh)

Syrian refugees struggle amid aid cuts, lack of labor rights

By Karin Laub - Associated Press

More than 140,000 Iraqi civilians have fled Ramadi, the capital of Iraq's Anbar province, located 70 miles west of Baghdad as Islamic State militants searched door to door for policemen and pro-government fighters and then threw their bodies in the Euphrates River in a bloody purge Monday. (Associated Press)

Islamic State’s Ramadi rout shows U.S. troops needed in Iraq, military experts say

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times