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In this Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2014 photo, men stroll down a promenade in the Syrian coastal city of Tartous. Syrians are adjusting to life in their truncated country. Despite being battered by a war, now in its fourth year, the country is still firmly under the grip of President Bashar Assad despite an armed rebellion to uproot him and losing territory to opposition rebels and the extremist Islamic State group. (AP Photo/Diaa Hadid)

Gunmen kill 5 nuclear engineers in Syrian capital: reports

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi (Associated Press)

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Islamic State leader, wounded in airstrike, reports say

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

President Barack Obama speaks to the media before a meeting with his cabinet members in the White House Cabinet Room in Washington, Friday, Nov. 7, 2014. A senior military official says that American military advisory teams will now go to Iraq&#8217;s western Anbar province where Islamic State militants have been gaining ground and slaying men, women and children. The teams are part of President Barack Obama&#8217;s new directive to expand the U.S. mission in Iraq by deploying another 1,500 U.S. troops to serve as advisers, trainers and security personnel. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) **FILE**

BRUCE FEIN: Congress: Don’t be fooled about Islamic State

By Bruce Fein

FILE - This file image posted on a militant website on Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2014, which is consistent with AP reporting, shows a convoy of vehicles and fighters from the al-Qaida-linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) fighters in Iraq's Anbar Province. The Islamic State was originally al-Qaida's branch in Iraq, but it used Syria's civil war to vault into something more powerful. It defied orders from al-Qaida's central command and expanded its operations into Syria, ostensibly to fight to topple Assad. But it has turned mainly to conquering territory for itself, often battling other rebels who stand in the way. (AP Photo/militant website, File)

Interpol, cruise firms share jihadi watch lists

By Jamey Keaten - Associated Press

The Republican takeover of the Senate may pave the way for Sen. John McCain (left) and other GOP foreign policy hawks like Sen. Lindsey Graham to try to play "back-seat driver" to the White House, but at the end of the day, "if the president doesn't want to do what they push for, that's entirely up to him," said one senior congressional aide. (Associated Press)

Republican Senate takeover gives war hawks, neocons bully pulpit

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

A woman lights up a cigarette in the DJ booth at a Halloween party in an upscale Damascus hotel, Syria. Amid a conflict grinding well into its fourth year, Syrians have sought to deny war its miserable monotony by taking pleasure in mindless entertainment, ranging from lounging in cafes, to dancing to thumping discos. (AP Photo/Diaa Hadid)

SYRIANS PARTY AMID WAR: Syrian fun seekers not stopped by war

By DIAA HADID - Associated Press

Gen. George Armstrong Custer

BRUCE FEIN: Obama: Follow the Reagan precedent set in Lebanon

By Bruce Fein

In this Oct. 28, 2014, file photo, smoke and flames rise from an Islamic State fighters' position in the town of Kobani during airstrikes by the U.S.-led coalition seen from the outskirts of Suruc, near the Turkey-Syria border. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda, File)

Islamic State group abused captive Kurdish children, report says

By Ryan Lucas - Associated Press

FBI Director James Comey looks on during a news conference at the bureau's Salt Lake City office Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2014, in Salt Lake City. Comey met with state and local law enforcement leaders from Utah, Idaho and Montana during a visit to Utah Tuesday. Comey spoke to the media during his visit, part of a national tour of FBI offices. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

FBI head: Difficult to ID Islamic State recruits

By Tom Hays - Associated Press

The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services building in Phoenix is seen here on Aug. 5, 2008. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Homeland Security tightens visa rules amid terrorist fears

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

In this file photo released Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2014, by the official Saudi Press Agency, Saudi pilots sits in the cockpit of a fighter jet as part of U.S.-led coalition airstrikes on Islamic State militants and other targets in Syria. (AP Photo/Saudi Press Agency, File)

Egypt, Gulf Arab allies eye anti-militant alliance

By Hamza Hendawi - Associated Press

The parents of Mohammed Hamzah Khan meet with the family's attorney Thomas Dirkin, left, before Khan's detention hearing in federal court in Chicago on Thursday, Oct. 9, 2014. The 19-year-old suburban man, accused of seeking to travel to Syria to join Islamic State militants, is charged with attempting to provide material support to foreign terrorists. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

Younger siblings arrested in Islamic State case

By Michael Tarm - Associated Press

To the rescue: Iraqi peshmerga fighters have entered the northern Syrian town of Kobani to join the Kurdish resistance. The forces have coordinated attacks against Islamic State militants, who have been besieging the strategic city for weeks. (Associated Press)

Turkey allows Iraqi reinforcements for Kurds battling Islamic State in Kobani

By Jacob Resneck — Special to The Washington Times

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People watch smoke from an airstrike by the US-led coalition rising outside Kobani, Syria, from a hilltop on the outskirts of Suruc, at the Turkey-Syria border, Thursday, Oct. 23, 2014. Kobani, also known as Ayn Arab, and its surrounding areas, has been under assault by extremists of the Islamic State group since mid-September and is being defended by Kurdish fighters. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

Hagel: Assad benefiting from U.S. airstrikes against Islamic State

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Peshmerga troops start entering Syrian border town

By Elena Becatoros - Associated Press

People watch smoke from an airstrike by the US-led coalition rising outside Kobani, Syria, from a hilltop on the outskirts of Suruc, at the Turkey-Syria border, Thursday, Oct. 23, 2014. Kobani, also known as Ayn Arab, and its surrounding areas, has been under assault by extremists of the Islamic State group since mid-September and is being defended by Kurdish fighters. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

Islamic State airstrikes in Syria spur White House infighting over Assad benefit

The Washington Times

Syrian rebels enter Kurdish town from Turkey

By Elena Becatoros and Zeina Karam - Associated Press