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Hayat Boumeddiene is thought to be the woman in this propaganda image released online by the Islamic State group. She is the widow of French hostage taker Amedy Coulibaly. (Image: CNN screenshot)

Islamic State claims Hayat Boumeddiene, widow of Paris hostage taker, safe with terror group

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Nov. 19, 2014 file photo, fighters from the Free Syrian Army, left, and the Kurdish People's Protection Units, center, join forces to fight Islamic State group militants in Kobani, Syria. Kurdish fighters in Syria have ambitions to become the chief force fighting Islamic State group extremists in the country - building on their victory in Kobani to ally with moderate rebels and push the jihadis ever further. They tout the alliance as a gamechanger in the Syria war as well: the emergence of the effective moderate rebel force that the West has been looking to ally with all along. (AP Photo/Jake Simkin, File)

Islamic State territory now ‘the size of Belgium’: lawmaker

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

A convoy of vehicles and fighters from the al Qaeda-linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant travels in Iraq's Anbar province. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Islamic State recruits flood Syria, Iraq in record numbers; intelligence officials report 20K

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

In this May 30, 2013, photo, Kayla Mueller is shown after speaking to a group in Prescott, Ariz. The parents of an American woman held by Islamic State militants say they have been notified of her death. Carl and Marsha Mueller, the parents of Kayla Jean Mueller, released a statement on Tuesday saying they have been told that she has died. The White House also issued a statement confirming her death.The Islamic State group said Friday that the 26-year-old Mueller from Prescott, Arizona, died in a Jordanian airstrike. (AP Photo/The Daily Courier, Matt Hinshaw)

Obama vows retribution against Islamic State for Kayla Mueller death

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Rep. Peter T. King, New York Republican, said that his hearings on homegrown Muslim terrorism in 2011 have been vindicated in the ensuing years after many American Muslims have traveled overseas to join the Islamic State organization's ongoing campaign of terror. (associated press)

Peter T. King says Islamic State terror justifies 2011 Muslim House hearings

By S.A. Miller - The Washington Times

Denis Cuspert, formerly known as German hip-hop artist Deso Dogg, joined the Islamic State terrorist group in 2012. (YouTube)

Deso Dogg, former rap artist linked to Islamic State, branded as terrorist: State Dept.

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

President Obama and his aides have begun to diminish the threat they see posed by the Islamic State, in sharp contrast to rhetoric last year that depicted the terrorist army as an unprecedented force and a danger to the U.S. (Associated Press)

Obama downplays Islamic State threat, changes objective from ‘destroy’ to ‘defeat’

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

People stand with their belongings as they leave there homes traveling by bus after recent fighting between Nigerian government forces and Boko Haram militants in Maiduguri, Nigeria, Saturday, Feb. 7, 2015. Nigeria's electoral commission will postpone Feb. 14 presidential and legislative elections for six weeks to give a new multinational force time to secure northeastern areas under the sway of Boko Haram, an official close to the commission told The Associated Press on Saturday. (AP Photo/Jossy Ola)

Nigeria elections postponed following Boko Haram violence

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

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, 225 miles (360 kilometers) northwest of Baghdad. ISIS placed eighth on Google's list of 2014's fastest-rising global search requests, the company said Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2014. (AP Photo, File)

Islamic State claims U.S. female captive killed in Jordanian airstrike

By Kellan Howell - The Washington Times

Soldiers rush a trauma victim to a U.S. Army medical helicopter in Tarmiyah, Iraq, Sept. 30, 2007. (U.S. Army) ** FILE **

U.S. moves rescue helicopters closer to battlefield

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

This undated file image posted on a militant website Jan. 14, 2014 shows fighters from the al Qaeda-linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) marching through Raqqa, Syria. (AP Photo/Militant Website, File)

New sanctions proposed for Islamic State group oil trading

By Edith M. Lederer - Associated Press

In this image made from Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2015, video provided by Jordanian military via Roya TV, an air force pilot raises his arm as he taxis his jet at Mowafak Al-Salti airbase in Azraq, Jordan. The military carried out airstrikes on Islamic State weapons depots and training sites on Thursday and Friday. King Abdullah II has thrust Jordan to the center of the war against the Islamic State group with his pledge of relentless retaliation for the killing of one of his pilots. (AP Photo/Jordanian military via Roya TV)

Jordan to scale back Islamic State airstrike blitz within days

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

MQ-9 Reaper drone fires a missile. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Obama denied request from Jordan for Predator drones in Islamic State fight

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

In this Jan. 17, 2015 file photo, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe attends a joint meeting of the Japan-Egypt business committee in Cairo, Egypt. Behind the sympathy Japanese are voicing over their two countrymen purportedly slain by the Islamic State group is a widespread view that they were "troublemakers." (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)

FRANK GAFFNEY: DIA chief warns of expanding jihadist threat in ever-dangerous world

By Sean MacCormac

United Arab Emirates Foreign Minister Sheik Abdullah bin Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan checks his phone during the 10th International Institute for the Strategic Studies in Manama, Bahrain, Saturday, Dec. 6, 2014. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali)

United Arab Emirates suspends airstrikes against Islamic State, asks U.S. for better rescue plans

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

Jordanians chant slogans to show their support for the government against terror as they were waiting for Jordan's King Abdullah II, returning from the U.S., at Queen Alia Airport in Amman, Wednesday. King Abdullah II rushed home Wednesday, cutting short a U.S. trip, to rally public support for even tougher strikes against the Islamic State group after the militants released a video showing the captured Jordanian pilot being burned to death in a cage. (Associated Press)

Jordan pilot Islamic State execution video triggers Sunni outrage throughout Middle East

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

"The air campaign that's being waged over the skies of Syria remains incredibly — and, in some cases, even devastatingly — effective," said White House press secretary Josh Earnest. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

White House: Islamic State air coalition strong even without United Arab Emirates

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

President Barack Obama delivers remarks during a meeting with people that wrote him letters explaining how they benefited from the Affordable Care Act in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, on Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2015, in Washington. Obama also condemned the execution of Jordanian Air Force pilot First Lt. Moaz al-Kasasbeh by the Islamic State group. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Obama, U.S. blind to Islamic State Libya threat, top official warns

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Jordan responded to the Islamic State's burning execution of pilot Lt. Muath al-Kaseasbeh by hanging at least two convicted terrorists at dawn Wednesday. (Associated Press)

Muath al-Kaseasbeh, Jordanian pilot, burned alive in ISIS video

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

President Barack Obama's new $4 trillion budget plan is distributed by the Senate Budget Committee as it arrives on Capitol Hill in Washington, early Monday, Feb. 02, 2015. The fiscal blueprint for the budget year that begins Oct. 1, seeks to raise taxes on wealthier Americans and corporations and use the extra income to lift the fortunes of families who have felt squeezed during tough economic times. Republicans, who now hold the power in Congress, are accusing the president of seeking to revert to tax-and-spend policies that will harm the economy while failing to do anything about soaring spending on government benefit programs. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

How Obama would spend your money in 2016, agency by agency

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