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Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper (Associated Press)

James Clapper, intel chief: Cyber ranks highest on worldwide threats to U.S.

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

A Kurdish peshmerga fighter sits besides the anti-tank gun MILAN at the Infantry School of the German Federal Armed Forces Bundeswehr in Hammelburg, Germany, on Oct. 2. (Associated Press)

Obama lacks Islamic State plan, should increase arms to Kurdish peshmerga, envoy says

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Syrian refugees gather near their tent after recent stormy weather and snowfalls at Zaatari Syrian refugee camp in Mafraq, Jordan, in this Feb. 21, 2015, file photo. The Obama administration's commitment to taking in thousands of Syrian refugees is raising national security concerns among some law enforcement officials and Republican lawmakers. (AP Photo/Raad Adayleh, File)

U.S. looks to aid Syrian refugees amid security concerns

By Eric Tucker - Associated Press

Peace in the Middle East Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

DANIEL PIPES: Like-to-like ethnic migration in the Middle East

By Daniel Pipes

FILE - 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. Islamic State militants have abducted at least 70 Assyrian Christians, including women and children, after overrunning a string of villages in northeastern Syria, two activist groups said Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2015. (AP Photo, File)

‘Christian’ specified in latest White House condemnation of Islamic State violence

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

The Metropolitan Police are looking for three teenage girls who boarded a plane at Gatwick Airport, south of London, bound for Turkey. (Image: United Kingdom, Metropolitain Police)

Shamima Begum, Amira Abase, and Kadiza Sultana in Islamic State territory, U.K. police say

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf. (Image: Youtube, C-SPAN)

CHRISTINE O’DONNELL: Marie Harf, State Department spokeswoman, was right on ISIS

By Christine O’Donnell

Ignatius Joseph III Younan, Patriarch of Antioch of the Syriac Catholics, leaves a church where displaced Iraqi Christian families, who fled the village of Hamdaniya near Mosul, had taken refuge, in Irbil, Iraq, Sunday, June 29, 2014. Thousands of Iraqi Christians flocked back home Wednesday, days after they fled their villages that came under attack by Sunni insurgents led by the al-Qaida inspired Islamic Sate in Iraq and the Levant, after ruling Kurdish forces told them it was safe to return. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Patriarch urges prayer after at least 90 Christians kidnapped in Syria

By Elise Harris - Catholic News Agency

This is a still taken from CCTV issued by the Metropolitan Police in London on Monday Feb. 23, 2015, of 15-year-old Amira Abase, left, Kadiza Sultana,16, centre, and Shamima Begum, 15, going through Gatwick airport, south of London, before they caught their flight to Turkey on Tuesday Feb 17, 2015. The three teenage girls left the country in a suspected bid to travel to Syria to join the Islamic State extremist group. (AP Photo/Metropolitan Police)

Families of 3 missing U.K. girls urge ‘Please come home!’

By Sylvia Hui - Associated Press

Ashton Carter vows Islamic State defeat after meeting near Iraq with military, diplomatic leaders

By Robert Burns - Associated Press

U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter, left, speaks with a soldier at Kandahar Airfield in Afghanistan, Sunday, Feb. 22, 2015. Carter is making his first trip to visit troops and commanders in Afghanistan since his swearing-in this week. (AP Photo/Jonathan Ernst, Pool)

Ashton Carter, new Pentagon chief, convenes unusual counter-IS meeting

By Robert Burns - Associated Press

"I was ... mind-boggled and didn't understand at all how this could be part of a strategic plan in what they're talking about," Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, a captain in the Hawaii Army National Guard and Iraq War veteran, said on CNN. "That you're not only outlining the timeline — which is troubling, but you're also talking about specifically how many troops, how many brigades, where they're coming from, and what they're going to be doing." (Associated Press)

Jordan training camp for Islamic State fight leaked by Pentagon in latest gaffe

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

Two Jordanian men walk past graffiti depicting the flag of the Islamic State group with Arabic that reads, "There is only one God and Muhammad is his prophet," in the city of Ma'an, Jordan. (Associated Press)

Islamic State expands beyond Syria, Iraq as recruits create global network of terror cells

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

Secretary John Kerry meets with Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry, at the Countering Violent Extremism Summit at the State Department in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 19, 2015. The White House is conveying a three-day summit to bring together local, federal, and international leaders to discuss steps the US and its partners can take to develop community-oriented approaches to counter extremist ideologies that radicalize, recruit and incite to violence. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Obama admin. pressured to ignore Egypt’s human rights abuses as Islamic State threat grows

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

FILE -- In this May 30, 2013 file photo, Kayla Mueller is shown after speaking to a group in Prescott, Ariz. Omar Alkhani, boyfriend of Mueller, spoke to The Associated Press on Sunday, Feb. 15, 2015, via webcam from Turkey in one of his first interviews. Alkhani talked about how he met Mueller in 2010 and the last time he saw her in 2013 as a prisoner of the Islamic State group. The U.S. government and Mueller’s family confirmed her death last week. (AP Photo/The Daily Courier, Matt Hinshaw, File) MANDATORY CREDIT

Memorial in Kayla Mueller’s hometown honors her life, work

By FELICIA FONSECA - Associated Press

CHRISTOPHER HARPER: Citizen journalist scoops war news from home in England

By Christopher Harper

Sixteen percent of surveyed Republicans would like to see the face of President Reagan added alongside the likenesses of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt to the face of Mt. Rushmore in South Dakota. (Associated Press)

Inside the Beltway: Russia heads a list of U.S. enemies: Here comes the Cold War, Part II

By Jennifer Harper - The Washington Times

Egypt's government said its fighter jets pounded Islamic State camps and arms depots across the border in Libya, in the morning and in the afternoon, in response to a horrific video the terrorist group posted showing the beheadings of 21 Egyptian Coptic Christians. (Associated Press)

Islamic State announces expansion into Libya with Egyptian Christians beheading video

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times