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This Nov. 24, 2014, file photo shows President Barack Obama, left, looking to Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, right, as he talks about his resignation during an event in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

For Obama and the Pentagon, an uneasy relationship

By JULIE PACE and ROBERT BURNS - Associated Press

In this Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2014, photo, a Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) fighter shows the extent of the damage from a truck bomb in Kobani, Syria. (AP Photo/Jake Simkin)

Islamic State group attacks Kobani, Syria, from Turkey, Kurds say

By Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, right, listens to Pope Francis' speech at the Presidential palace in Ankara, Friday, Nov. 28, 2014. Pope Francis condemned the Islamic State assault on Christians and other religions minorities in Iraq and Syria as he arrived Friday in neighboring Turkey to encourage Muslim leaders to take a stronger stand against extremists who twist religion to justify terrorism. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)

Pope urges more Muslim opposition to IS in Turkey

By Nicole Winfield and Suzan Fraser - Associated Press

In this March 18, 2013, file image taken from video obtained from the Shaam News Network, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, free Syrian Army fighters fire at Syrian army soldiers during a fierce firefight in Daraa al-Balad, Syria. (AP Photo/Shaam News Network via AP video, File)

Rebels push forward in southern Syria

By Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

The Islamic State group, which has employed a broad range of strategies to subdue Sunni Muslim tribes in Syria and Iraq, is pushing its war for a caliphate into North Africa. Younger jihadis in particular appear to be mimicking the militants' rhetoric and brutality. (Associated Press)

Islamic State opening front in North Africa

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

This undated image posted online and made available on Thursday, Nov. 20, 2014 by Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently, an anti-Islamic State group organization, shows children at an Islamic State group training camp in Raqqa, Syria. The image has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting. Across the vast region in Syria and Iraq that is part of the Islamic State group's self-declared caliphate, children are being inculcated with the extremist group's radical and violent interpretation of Shariah law. (AP Photo/Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently)

Islamic State: With incentives and brute force, terror group subdues tribes

By Ryan Lucas - Associated Press

This photo provided on Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2014, by an anti-Islamic State group and anti-Bashar Assad activist group Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, showa burned cars and damaged buildings on a street after Syrian government forces airstrikes struck a popular market near a museum and an industrial neighborhood in Raqqa city, north Syria. The death toll from a series of Syrian government airstrikes on the Islamic State group's stronghold in northeastern Syria has risen to at least 95, making it one of the deadliest attacks on the city of Raqqa in the past three years. (AP Photo/Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently)

British jihadi skips on U.K. bail and flees to Syria

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson speaks at a news conference following the secretary's visit to the Islamic Center of the San Gabriel Valley in Rowland Heights, Calif., Thursday, Nov. 13, 2014. (AP Photo/Nick Ut) ** FILE **

Eerie lack of terror chatter this Thanksgiving, but feds keep ‘vigilant’

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Sen. Rand Paul, Kentucky Republican (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley)

BRUCE FEIN: Rand Paul’s pioneering war declaration

By Bruce Fein

President Barack Obama, left, listens as Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, right, talks about his resignation during an event in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, Monday, Nov. 24, 2014. Hagel is stepping down under pressure from Obama's Cabinet, senior administration officials said Monday, following a tenure in which he has struggled to break through the White House's insular foreign policy team. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Chuck Hagel hands Obama his resignation amid reported clashes

By David Sherfinski and Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Turkish students stage a rally to protest against the visit of U.S. Vice President Joe Biden in Istanbul, Turkey, Saturday, Nov. 22, 2014. Biden on Saturday called on Europe to continue diversifying its energy supplies to reduce dependence on Russia. (AP Photo)

‘Biden get out!’: VP given rough reception by Turkish protesters

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FILE - This undated file photo posted on Monday, Nov. 4, 2014 by the Raqqa Media Office of the Islamic State group, a militant extremist group, shows Islamic state group fighters in Kobani, Syria. For a force that has built its reputation on projecting an aura of momentum and invincibility, the prolonged stalemate in Kobani is a setback for Islamic State militants with potential implications in terms of recruitment and support. More than two months into its assault on Kobani, the Islamic State group still pours fighters and resources into trying to take the besieged Kurdish town, but the drive has been blunted. Aided by 270 U.S. airstrikes, the town&#8217;s determined Kurdish defenders appear to be gaining momentum, a potentially bruising reversal for the militants who only few weeks ago seemed unstoppable in their march to victory. (AP Photo/Raqqa Media Office, File)

Islamic State group’s drive for Kobani is blunted

By Zeina Karam - Associated Press

AP News in Brief at 5:58 a.m. EST

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Gunman clash with Iraqi security forces in Fallujah, Iraq, Jan. 5, 2014. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

From IS militant to Iraq informant

By Vivian Salama - Associated Press

Deputy National Security Adviser Tony Blinken said the Obama policy on Syria will be nothing like Bush-era war on terror in Iraq and Afghanistan. (AP Photo)

Aide: Obama open to limits in war authorization

By Bradley Klapper - Associated Press

This undated file image posted on a militant website on Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2014, which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting, shows fighters from the Islamic State group marching in Raqqa, Syria. (AP Photo/Militant Website, File)

UN experts recommend new sanctions on terrorists

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FBI: 150 Americans suspected of fighting in Syria with Islamic State

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times