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In this photo taken Monday, March 9, 2015, a B-1 bomber is seen at the al-Udeid Air Base in Doha, Qatar. The base is the regional nerve center for the air war against the militants who have taken over nearly a third of Iraq and Syria. That makes it the main hub for coordinating warplanes from the U.S. and 11 other nations in the coalition carrying out bombing raids. (AP Photo/Osama Faisal)

In coalition of many, U.S. air power does the heavy lifting

By ADAM SCHRECK - Associated Press

Ashton Carter: Islamic State ‘metastasizing,’ U.S. intervention desperately needed

By Jacqueline Klimas - The Washington Times

Zhang Chunxian, the Communist Party secretary of the Xinjiang province, claimed Tuesday that an unspecified number of Uighurs have "fled overseas and joined the Islamic State." "We have also found that some who fought returned to Xinjiang to participate in terrorist plots," Mr. Zhang said. (Associated Press)

China says Uighurs bring Islamic State terror back from jihad, plot attacks

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2012 file photo, an elderly Syrian woman, who fled her home due to fighting between the Syrian army and the rebels, reacts, while she and other families take refuge at Bab Al-Salameh crossing border, hoping to cross to one of the refugee camps in Turkey, near the Syrian town of Azaz. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen, File)

An exodus with little hope – report finds crisis of unaccompanied minors fleeing Syria

By Matt Hadro - Catholic News Agency

Jordanians chant slogans to show their support for the government's campaign against terror during a rally in Amman, Jordan. (Associated Press)

Jordan expands Islamic State bombing raids into Iraq after pilot burning death

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

A United Nations flag (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

EDITORIAL: Unarmed peacekeeping on the Heights

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Syrian artist in D.C. uses paintings to express Christians’ war losses

By John Anderson - Special to The Washington Times

Leading the way: Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, attended a meeting with environmental officials and activists at his residence in Tehran on Sunday. Iran's supreme leader holds a deep mistrust of America. (Associated Press)

Iran using Obama sanctions relief to undermine U.S. interests in Middle East, senator says

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

FILE - In this July 27, 2005 file photo, a temple to the Shamash sun god still stands over 1,750 years after the Sassanian empire razed the Mesopotamian city of Hatra, 320 kilometers (200 miles) north of Baghdad, Iraq. Iraq's minister of tourism and antiquities told The Associated Press, Saturday, March 7, 2015, that the government is investigating reports that the ancient archaeological site of Hatra in northwestern Iraq is being demolished by militants from the Islamic State group. The group has already looted artifacts from Nimrud, another ancient archaeological site, on Friday and bulldozed it in a move UNESCO deemed &quot;a war crime.&quot; (AP Photo/Antonio Castaneda, File)

IS destroying another ancient archaeological site in Iraq

By SAMEER N. YACOUB and VIVIAN SALAMA - Associated Press

[u'Secretary of State John Kerry, fourth from left, meets with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, third from right, for a new round of nuclear negotiations on Wednesday, March 4, 2015, in Montreux, Switzerland. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)', u'U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, third from left, meets with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, third from right, for a new round of nuclear negotiations Wednesday, March 4, 2015, in Montreux, Switzerland. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, Pool)']

ANNE R. PIERCE: Iran’s rising star

By Anne R. Pierce

Egyptian journalists hold a protest for Christians who were killed in Libya, at the journalists syndicate in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2015. An Islamic State video released on 15 February claimed to show the extremist group beheading 21 Egyptian Christians abducted in Libya more than a month ago. Arabic on the banners read, "a protest to morn the victims of terrorism in Libya," top, " we are not afraid from ISIS terrorism," center. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

For Middle East Christians, UN indifference is deadly

Catholic News Agency

In this photo released Wednesday, March 4, 2015, by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian President Bashar Assad speaks during an interview with Portuguese state television, RTP, in Damascus, Syria. Assad denied that his troops drop barrels bombs on civilians telling a journalist: &quot;You are talking about massive propaganda.&quot; (AP Photo/SANA)

Syria says it killed military leader of al-Qaida group

Associated Press

In this March 3, 2015, photo, President Barack Obama speaks about Iran and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's speech to Congress during a meeting with Defense Secretary Ashton Carter in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. (Associated Press) **FILE**

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Obama’s weakness on the Middle East

By Victor Davis Hanson

Konstandinos Erik Scurfield (center) poses with Kurdish fighters in Iraq. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Erik Scurfield, former Royal Marine, dies fighting Islamic State group with Kurds: report

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Feb. 2, 2014 file photo, Lebanese police inspectors, investigates the site of a deadly car bomb that exploded near a gas station, in the predominately Shiite town of Hermel, about 10 miles from the Syrian border in northeast Lebanon. Global warming worsened record droughts in war-torn Syria and peaceful California, contributing to the unrest that has torn the Middle Eastern country apart, two new studies say. In what scientists say is one of the most detailed and strongest connections between violence and human caused climate change, researchers from Columbia University and the University of California Santa Barbara trace Syria’s drought to the collapse of farming to the migration of 1.5 million farmers to the cities to poverty to civil unrest. Syria’s drought started in 2007 and went until at least 2010 _ maybe longer with weather records harder to get in wartime. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla. File)

Syria’s civil war linked partly to drought, global warming

By SETH BORENSTEIN - Associated Press

ANNE R. PIERCE: Beware ISIS strategy that fortifies Russia, Iran, and Syria

By Anne R. Pierce

Islamic State group members pray at the Tabqa air base in Syria. Public opinion in the U.S. has gradually shifted to favoring military intervention. (associated press)

Americans open to U.S. troops for fighting Islamic State

By Jacqueline Klimas - The Washington Times

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is pushing a bill that would allow for arbitrary searches and detentions without charges. (Associated Press)

CLAUDE SALHANI: How Turkey miscalculated in the Mideast

By Claude Salhani

Mohammed Emwazi, the British member of the Islamic State group known as Jihadi John, appears in a beheading video released by the terrorist organization. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

AP Essay: ‘Jihadi John’ won’t have the same impact unmasked

By GREGORY KATZ - Associated Press

This undated image shows a frame from a video released by Islamic State militants on Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2014, that shows the killing of journalist James Foley by the militant "Jihadi John." Foley, from Rochester, N.H., went missing in 2012 in northern Syria while on assignment for Agence France-Press and the Boston-based media company GlobalPost. (AP Photo/File)

U.K. spies face questions about failure to stop ‘Jihadi John’

By Gregory Katz - Associated Press