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A man speaks on a cellphone while watching the town of Kobani during airstrikes by the US led coalition on the outskirts of Suruc, near the Turkey-Syria border, Tuesday, Oct. 28, 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)

Iraqi Kurds head for Kobani to join fight against Islamic State

Associated Press

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**

Rep. Mike Rogers: Lone-wolf terror threat ‘huge and getting worse’

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

A Lebanese army soldier opens fire during clashes with Islamic militants in the northern port city of Tripoli, Lebanon, Sunday, Oct. 26, 2014. The Lebanese army brought tanks and commando forces into the northern city of Tripoli Sunday, where fighting with Muslim militants has intensified and spread to nearby areas. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Lebanese troops fight street battles in Tripoli

By BILAL HUSSEIN and BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

Marines and sailors from India Company, 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, head for a Marine Medium Tiltorotor Squadron 365 MV-22 Osprey at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms, Calif. (Image: U.S. Marine Corps) ** FILE **

Marine Lance Cpl. Sean P. Neal dies during Inherent Resolve deployment to Baghdad

Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 14, 2014 file photo, President Barack Obama speaks during a meeting with more than 20 foreign defense ministers on the ongoing operations against the Islamic State group, at Andrews Air Force Base, Md. Nearly two-thirds of Americans believe the threat posed by the Islamic State militants is a very important issue, and fewer than half approve of the way President Barack Obama is handling the danger posed by them, according to an Associated Press-GfK poll. Forty-six percent of the Americans surveyed say the U.S. military response in Iraq and Syria has not gone far enough and a majority think America’s partners need to up their game in the fight. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Poll: 2 of 3 Americans say IS threat is important

By Deb Riechmann and Emily Swanson - Associated Press

Syrians and Turks are seen at the Turkish border crossing of Oncunipar, Kilis, Turkey, in this Sept. 28, 2014, file photo. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici, File)

Smugglers offer $20 passage from Turkey to Syria

By Desmond Butler and Ryan Lucas - Associated Press

FILE - In this Thursday, Oct. 2, 2014 file photo, the parents of Sahra Ali Mehenni : Kamel Ali Mehenni, right, and Severine Ali Mehenni, looks at photos of their daughter in their living room in Lezignan Corbieres, southern France. At age 17, Sahra Ali Mehenni went so far as to ask her mother to get her a passport, saying she wanted her paperwork in order before she reached adulthood. When she left for Syria on March 11, departing from the Marseille airport just as the teen boy did, she took her burgundy-bound passport and nobody stopped her before she boarded the flight to Istanbul. (AP Photo/Fred Scheiber, File)

For teen with passport, Syria trip can be seamless

By Lori Hinnant - Associated Press

War Loot: Islamic State militants rummage through a cache of weapons airdropped by U.S.-led coalition forces. The weapons were meant to supply Kurdish forces battling the extremist group in Kobani, Syria, but "now they are spoils for the mujahedeen," one militant said. (Associated Press)

Islamic State among ‘best-funded’ terrorist groups on earth: Treasury Dept.

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Friday, May 27, 2011, file photo, journalist James Foley poses for a photo during an interview with The Associated Press in Boston. A memorial service is scheduled Saturday, Oct. 18, 2014, in Foley's hometown of Rochester, N.H., on what would have been his 41st birthday. Foley was abducted in Syria on Thanksgiving Day 2012, and a video by Islamic State militants that purported to show his killing by the militant group was released Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2014. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)

FBI warns U.S. journalists of Islamic State threat

By Jennifer Pompi - The Washington Times

President Obama and Turkey President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (Associated Press/File)

CHARLES ORTEL: Erdogan’s Turkey an unreliable ally against jihadists

By Charles Ortel

War Loot: Islamic State militants rummage through a cache of weapons airdropped by U.S.-led coalition forces. The weapons were meant to supply Kurdish forces battling the extremist group in Kobani, Syria, but "now they are spoils for the mujahedeen," one militant said. (Associated Press)

Islamic State seizes airdropped U.S. weapons as Kurds await troop reinforcements

By Jacob Resneck — Special to The Washington Times

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)

FBI: Denver girls may have tried to join jihadis

By Sadie Gurman - Associated Press

American teens detained in Germany after trying to join Islamic State, report says

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Saturday, Oct. 11, 2014 file photo, Kurdish Ali Mehmud mourns at the grave of his brother Seydo Mehmud 'Curo', a Kurdish fighter, who was killed in the fighting with the militants of the Islamic State group in Kobani, Syria, and was buried at a cemetery in Suruc, Turkey. No one contests that the U.S.-led coalition has conducted more than 40 airstrikes against the militants besieging Kobani, nor that Turkey has granted refuge to more than 200,000 people who have flooded across the border to escape the offensive. But Kurds say that both countries - and the international community in general - should be doing more to help save Kobani from the fanatical militants who have massacred and beheaded their enemies across Syria and Iraq. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis, File)

BAKIR: Congress should equip and train the Kurds

By Falah Mustafa Bakir

President Obama, seated next to Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, speaks to the media about Ebola during a meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House on Oct. 15, 2014. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

BRUCE FEIN: Obama’s Hail Mary pass to destroy ISIS

By Bruce Fein

The Washington Monument looms over the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, Wednesday, June 10, 2009. An elderly gunman opened fire with a rifle inside the crowded U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum on Wednesday, gravely wounding a security guard before being shot. Authorities said they were investigating a white supremacist as the possible shooter. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Holocaust Museum shows images of Syrian killings

By BRETT ZONGKER - Associated Press

holy war: The Islamic State has used the Koran to justify its use of murder, extortion and sexual slavery in their establishment of a caliphate. However, Muslim scholars say the group is incorrectly citing the holy book. (Associated Press)

Islamic State struggles to reconcile terrorist tactics, Muslim law

By Andrea Noble - The Washington Times

conflagration: Thick smoke rises following an airstrike by the U.S.-led coalition in Kobani, Syria, as fighting continued between Syrian Kurds and militants of the Islamic State group. Kobani, also known as Ayn Arab, has been under assault since mid-September. Story, A9 (Associated Press)

Obama strategy, legal authority for Islamic State offensive in question

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

White House press secretary Josh Earnest speaks said the U.S. is making progress in the fight against the Islamic State. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

‘We are succeeding’ in fight against Islamic State: White House

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times