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A French police officer patrols around the Sacre Coeur basilica at Montmartre district, in Paris,, Monday, Jan. 12, 2015. France on Monday ordered 10,000 troops into the streets to protect sensitive sites after three days of bloodshed and terror, amid the hunt for accomplices to the attacks that left 17 people and the three gunmen dead. (AP Photo/Jacques Brinon)

France hunts for attack accomplices, deploys 10,000 troops

By Lori Hinnant and Sylvie Corbet - Associated Press

Illustration on the need to awaken to the global Islamist threat by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

DAVID HOROWITZ: Obama’s denial of terror threat endangers U.S.

By David Horowitz

People light candles as they pay tribute to victims of the attack against the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo, in front of the French embassy in Budapest, Hungary, on Thursday, a day after 12 people were slain by two armed men who stormed the Paris offices of the magazine. Inscriptions read "I am Charlie". (Associated Press)

Paris newspaper attack underscores terrorist shift to ‘soft targets’

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

In this Wednesday, Dec. 31, 2014 photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian President Bashar Assad, right, shares a meal with Syrian troops during his visit on the front line in the eastern Damascus district of Jobar, Syria. Assad has made a rare visit to the front line of his country's civil war, spending New Year's Eve with his troops in a tense eastern Damascus neighborhood. (AP Photo/SANA)

Bashar Assad’s forces boosted with special suicide bomber team

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

A still from a home video shows gunmen firing their weapons outside the newspaper Charlie Hebdo's Paris office. (Associated Press)

Paris newspaper shooting exposes rift in Muslim-Europe relationships

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

From the Islamic State's circulation on social media of photos depicting a so-called "cyclops baby" to its fixation on a Syrian town where the prophecies say the final battle will occur, analysts say the group's leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, is tapping mythology to convince his followers that the apocalypse has already begun. (Associated Press)

Apocalypse prophecies drive Islamic State strategy, recruiting efforts

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

A Syrian refugee man, cuts wood as he prepares for the possibility of a snow storm at a Syrian refugee camp, in Deir Zannoun village, Bekaa valley, Lebanon, Monday, Jan. 5, 2015. A snow storm is expected to hit Lebanon Monday affecting Syrian refugees, many of whom live in tents without proper heating. The government estimates there are about 1.5 million Syrians in Lebanon, about one-quarter of the total population. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Lebanon imposes rules limiting entry of Syrians fleeing war

By Diaa Hadid - Associated Press

Radio host and columnist Armstrong Williams. (Image courtesy of New Chapter Publisher)

ARMSTRONG WILLIAMS: Islamic State, Ferguson, Ukraine, comet landing: Top news in 2014

By Armstrong Williams

Friends and relatives of Mu'ath Safi al-Kaseasbeh, a Jordanian pilot captured by the Islamic State group, gather in the town of Aey near Al Karak in southern Jordan, Wednesday, Dec. 24, 2014. Islamic State militants captured the Jordanian pilot after his warplane crashed in Syria while conducting airstrikes Wednesday, the first foreign military member to fall into the extremists' hands since an international coalition launched its bombing campaign against the group months ago. (AP Photo/Raad Adayleh)

Father of pilot captured by Islamic State pleads for release

By Omar Akour and Diaa Hadid - Associated Press

Illustration on benefits of domestic natural gas production by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

MARIOS EFTHYMIOPOULOS: Cyprus, Israel energy race needs U.S. natural gas ally

By Marios P. Efthymiopoulos

This image posted by the Raqqa Media Center of the Islamic State group, a militant extremist group, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows members of the Islamic State group with a captured pilot, center, wearing a white shirt in Raqqa, Syria, Wednesday, Dec. 24, 2014. Activists say that Islamic State fighters have shot down a warplane believed to be from the U.S.-led coalition over Syria. (AP Photo/Raqqa Media Center of the Islamic State group)

Islamic State captures Jordanian pilot in Syria after crash

By Omar Akour and Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

This image posted by the Raqqa Media Center, which monitors events in territory controlled by Islamic State militants with the permission of the extremist group, shows militants with a captured pilot, center, wearing a white shirt in Raqqa, Syria, Wednesday, Dec. 24, 2014. Islamic State group militants captured a Jordanian pilot, Mu'ath Safi Yousef al-Kaseasbeh, after his warplane went down in Syria, Jordan said Wednesday, the first such capture since the international coalition's air campaign against the group began. The pilot's family confirmed that it is al-Kaseasbeh shown in the image. (AP Photo/Raqqa Media Center)

Pentagon: Crashed Jordanian jet was not shot down by Islamic State

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

Islamic State abusing women, removing them from public life

By Zeina Karam - Associated Press

Islamic State recruits broadly, not just fighters

By Eric Tucker and Sadie Gurman - Associated Press

U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., a potential 2016 presidential candidate, speaks during a public rally at U.S. House candidate Rod Blum's campaign office on Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2014, in Dubuque, Iowa. (AP Photo/The Telegraph Herald, Jessica Reilly) ** FILE **

Marco Rubio on Islamic State: Give president flexibility, authority he needs to combat terror group

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers, Michigan Republican, speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington on June 6, 2013. (Associated Press) **FILE**

House intel chief: Threats rising, Obama failing in terror war

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times