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U.K. drops terror case against ex-Guantanamo inmate who traveled to Syria

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

In this Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2014, file photo, Army Lt. Gen. William Mayville, Jr., Director of Operations J3, speaks about the operations in Syria during a news conference at the Pentagon. According to current and former U.S. officials, the Pentagon is grappling with significant intelligence gaps as it bombs Iraq and Syria, and it is operating under less restrictive targeting rules than those President Barack Obama imposed on the CIA drone campaign in Pakistan and Yemen. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)

Airstrikes launched in Iraq and Syria amid intelligence gaps

By Ken Dilanian - Associated Press

Illustration on options dealing with the Islamic State by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

BABBIN: How to play the ISIS card

By Jed Babbin

Illustration on U.S. reinvolvement against ISIS by Schot/De Volkskrant, Amsterdam, Netherlands

LAMBRO: A Mideast policy rewritten in blood

By Donald Lambro

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) speaks to a crowd during a town hall meeting at Clarke University, in Dubuque, Iowa, on Saturday, Sept. 13, 2014. (AP Photo/The Telegraph Herald, Mike Burley) ** FILE **

Sen. Bernie Sanders: Arab nations should take lead in fighting Islamic State

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

In this Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2014 photo released by the U.S. Air Force, a formation of U.S. Navy F-18E Super Hornets leaves after receiving fuel from a KC-135 Stratotanker over northern Iraq, as part of U.S. led coalition airstrikes on the Islamic State group and other targets in Syria. U.S.-led airstrikes targeted Syrian oil installations held by the militant Islamic State group overnight and early Thursday, Sept. 25, 2014, killing nearly 20 people as the militants released dozens of detainees in their de facto capital, fearing further raids, activists said. (AP Photo/U.S. Air Force, Staff Sgt. Shawn Nickel)

Pentagon: Most of ISIS’ oil refineries in Syria have been destroyed

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

In this image provided by the U.S. Navy, the guided-missile cruiser USS Philippine Sea (CG 58) launches a Tomahawk cruise missile as seen from the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush on Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2014. Syria said Tuesday that Washington informed President Bashar Assad's government of imminent U.S. airstrikes against the Islamic State group, hours before an American-led military coalition pounded the extremists' strongholds across northern and eastern Syria. (AP Photo/U.S. Navy, Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Eric Garst)

Defense leaders warn of Tomahawk missile shortage in Islamic State fight

By Adam Kredo — The Washington Free Beacon

Illustration on the persecution of Christians by Islamists in the Middle East by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

ZAKHEM: Christians under siege in the Islamic Middle East

By Sam H. Zakhem

Turkish Kurds watch clashes between Syrian Kurdish fighters and militants of the Islamic State close to Turkey-Syria border near Suruc, Turkey, Sunday, Sept. 28, 2014. (AP Photo)

U.S.-led airstrikes hit 4 Syrian provinces

By Ryan Lucas - Associated Press

Rep. Steny H. Hoyer, Maryland Democrat (Associated Press) **FILE**

Steny Hoyer: No need to cut vacation for Syria vote

By Jacqueline Klimas - The Washington Times

Prison records indicate that Alton Nolen, the suspect in the beheading of a coworker at an Oklahoma food processing plant, had spent time in prison and was on probation for assaulting a police officer. (AP Photo/Oklahoma Department of Corrections)

Algeria, Oklahoma beheadings suggest Islamic State reach extends beyond Mideast

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

Casey Stengel (right) won seven World Series titles as manager of the Yankees, but none with the Mets. Bruce Fein compares those losing seasons with the CIA: "The intelligence community's chronic blunders bring to mind Casey Stengel's exasperation with the New York Mets: 'Can't anybody here play this game?' "

FEIN: Intelligence community blunders

By Bruce Fein

In this Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2014 photo, Brandon Bryant, 28, poses for a photo, in Caras Park in Missoula, Mont. Bryant, a former sensor operator, manned the cameras for drone pilots at Air Force bases in Nevada and New Mexico for about five years. Bryant said he has been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder and that he still suffers from insomnia, depression and nightmares three years after he participated in his last mission. (AP Photo/Lido Vizzutti)

Emotional toll taxes military drone operators too

By JULIE WATSON - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 26, 2014 file photo, President Barack Obama speaks in the South Court Auditorium of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex in Washington. By President Barack Obama&#8217;s own admission, the U.S. bombing campaign against militants in Syria could help President Bashar Assad cling to power. Critics say Obama&#8217;s strategy does little to address the conditions that have allowed the Islamic State group to thrive and could leave Syria a hotbed for extremism. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

Obama knew for months of intel community’s concerns about Islamic State

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

President Barack Obama pauses as he speaks about the participation of five Arab nations in airstrikes against militants in Syria., Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2014, on the South Lawn the White House, in Washington, before heading to the United Nations. The president said the participation of five Arab nations in airstrikes against militants in Syria &quot;makes it clear to the world this is not America's fight alone.&quot; (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Obama: ‘I recognize the contradiction’ of policy toward Syria, Islamic State

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Capts. Andrew Glowa, left, and William Piepenbring launch flares from two A-10C Thunderbolt IIs Aug. 18, 2014, over southern Georgia. Both pilots are with the 74th Fighter Squadron, Moody Air Force Base, Ga. Pilots, maintainers and support Airmen ensure Moody AFB’s A-10s stay mission ready for daily training sorties and deployments downrange. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Jamal D. Sutter/Released) ** FILE **

U.S. military limits warplanes used for ISIS bombing in Iraq, Syria

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

This Friday, Sept. 19, 2014 photo, provided by Edlib News Network (ENN), an anti-Bashar Assad activist group, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows an anti-Syrian government protester holding a placard during a demonstration against the U.S.-led coalition airtstrikes, at the village of Kfar Derian, Idlib province, northern Syria. The U.S. is struggling to counter anger among the Syrian opposition, where many believe that the air campaign against extremists in the country is only helping President Bashar Assad and that Washington is coordinating with Damascus, despite American insistence it backs the rebel cause. (AP Photo/Edlib News Network ENN)

Syrian rebels Obama needs to defeat Islamic State accuse U.S. of working with Assad

By Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

President Obama, left, looks to Vice President Joe Biden as he speaks at a ceremony in East Room of the White House in Washington, May 12, 2014. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Turkey tells Obama, Biden ‘no-fly zone must be declared’ in Syria

By Suzan Fraser - Associated Press

Image: The Economist

White House pans ‘unfair’ The Economist cover with Obama in Bush’s flight suit

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

A pair of U.S. F-15E Strike Eagle flies over northern Iraq, after conducting airstrikes in Syria on Sept. 23, 2014. (Associated Press)

U.S. airstrikes prompt Islamic State to move positions, hide among civilians

By Bill Gertz — The Washington Free Beacon