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Syrian rebel fighters take cover Oct. 26, 2012, as a Syrian army sniper aims over a destroyed mosque in Tarik Al-Bab, southeast of Aleppo, Syria. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Syrians strike Islamic State stronghold, killing scores

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke) ** FILE **

Susan Collins: Senate should stay to debate military authorization

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

Illustration on U.S. China relations by Donna Grethen/Tribune Content Agency

SCHOEN & KAYLAN: Russia and China, masters of mischief

By Douglas E. Schoen and Melik Kaylan

President Barack Obama gestures during a statement in the State Dining Room of the White House, on Thursday, Sept. 18, 2014, in Washington. Obama spoke after Congress voted to arm and train moderate Syrian rebels in the fight against the Islamic State group. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

French to join U.S. coalition in Iraq

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

President Barack Obama greets members of the military upon his arrival on Air Force One at MacDill Air Force Base, Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2014. Obama will spend the night in Tampa and tomorrow morning he will receive a briefing at US Central Command about the ongoing military campaigns in Iraq and Syria. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Obama tells troops no ground war in Iraq

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Sen. Ted Cruz, Texas Republican (Associated Press) **FILE**

Cruz: Hagel, Dempsey more ‘social workers’ than military leaders

By Kellan Howell - The Washington Times

U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., speaks Friday, Sept. 12, 2014 at a GOP unity breakfast in Manchester, N.H. Paul considered a possible Republican presidential candidate in 2016, made a visit to the key early voting state of New Hampshire at the state Republican Party's "Unity Breakfast" following Tuesday's state primary. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)

Rand Paul: If Iraqis won’t fight for their country, why should Americans?

By Kellan Howell - The Washington Times

Pa. man guilty of shipping chemical-weapons detection equipment to Syria

By Phillip Swarts - The Washington Times

A police officer searches a house in Mount Gravatt, Brisbane, Australia, Thursday, Sept. 18, 2014. Australian police detained 15 people on Thursday in a major counterterrorism operation, saying intelligence indicated a random, violent attack was being planned on Australian soil. (AP Photo/AAP Image, Dave Hunt) AUSTRALIA OUT, NEW ZEALAND OUT, PAPUA NEW GUINEA OUT, SOUTH PACIFIC OUT, NO SALES, NO ARCHIVES

Australian leader warns of planned attack

By Kristen Gelineau - Associated Press

A check point near the northeastern city of Qamishli, Syria. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo, File)

Inside the Ring: CIA goes to war

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

Posters depicting ISIL ambition in Syria and Iraq are displayed as Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Martin Dempsey testify concerning the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in front of the Senate Armed Services Committee on Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C., Tuesday, September 16, 2014. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

ISIS-al Qaeda competition could prompt strikes against Americans: Intelligence officials

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

FILE - In this June 4, 2014 file photo, French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve, right, and Belgium's Interior Minister Joelle Milquet speak with the press after laying a wreath at the Jewish Museum in Brussels on Wednesday, June 4, 2014. Recruiters for Islamic extremist groups are increasingly targeting French women and girls, with nearly 100 either in Syria or on their way and 175 being monitored at home, security officials say. France’s Interior Ministry on Tuesday Sept.16, 2014 posted a video showing anguished family members of young people who left to fight alongside extremists, including a young man whose 15-year-old sister set out for what she thought was a humanitarian aid mission. She has not returned. (AP Photo/Thierry Monasse, File)

Rise in extremists recruiting French women, girls

By LORI HINNANT - Associated Press

Fighters from the Islamic State group parade in an Iraqi security forces armored vehicle. Experts say defeating the group is more akin to what was required to beat al Qaeda in Iraq, which was founded in 2004 by Jordanian Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and subsequently led by the group's current chief, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, an Iraqi cleric. (Associated Press)

FEIN: Vetting the Syrian opposition

By Bruce Fein

architects: Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin E. Dempsey remain in the process of continuing to shape Obama administration activities to rout the Islamic State terrorist group. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

Pentagon open to U.S. ground troops in fight against Islamic State

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Top general: US ground troops possible in Iraq

By DAVID ESPO and DONNA CASSATA - Associated Press

French President Francois Hollande, left, watches U.S Secretary of State John Kerry, right, shaking hands with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, back to the camera, before a family photo at the international conference intended to come up with an international strategy against Islamic State extremists, in Paris, Monday, Sept. 15, 2014. As diplomats from around the world sought a global strategy to fight Islamic State extremists, Iran ruled out working with any international coalition, saying it had rejected American requests for cooperation against the militants. Partially hidden at center is French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius. (AP Photo/Brendan Smialowski; Pool)

Iraq calls for end to extremist ‘sanctuaries’

By Lori Hinnant and Lara Jakes - Associated Press

This undated family handout photo shows British man Alan Henning, currently held hostage by Islamic State (IS) and whose life was threatened in the IS video in which they beheaded David Haines. (AP Photo/PA Wire)

Islamic State vows to kill 2nd Brit, ex-cabby Alan Henning

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

FILE - In this March 2, 2013 file photo, a view of an oil field under control of Kurdish militias near the town of Deriq, in a Kurdish area of Syria, near the border with Iraq. The Islamic State militants, who once relied on wealthy Persian Gulf nations for money, have become a self-sustaining financial juggernaut, earning more than $3 million a day from oil smuggling, human trafficking, theft and extortion, according to U.S. intelligence officials and private experts. The group, which has taken over large sections of Syria and Iraq, controls as many as 11 oil fields in both countries, analysts say. It is selling oil and other goods through generations-old smuggling networks under the noses of some of the same governments it is fighting: Kurdish-controlled northern Iraq, Turkey and Jordan. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo, File)

Islamic State group’s war chest is growing daily

Associated Press

President Barack Obama salutes as he arrives on the South Lawn of the White House, on Friday, Sept. 12, 2014, in Washington. Obama traveled to the Fort McHenry historic site that is celebrating the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Baltimore, and also attended a private Democratic fundraiser. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Congress demands Obama act to keep Islamic terrorists out of U.S.

By Stephen Dinan and Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Sen. Lindsey Graham says the Chris Christie scandal is a reflection on the New Jersey governor even though some of his aides were at the center of it. "It seems to me that this whole bridge thing reinforces a narrative that's troublesome about the guy. He's kind of a bully," the South Carolina Republican says. (Associated Press)

Republicans unconvinced Obama taking Islamic State threat seriously enough

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times