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House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Rep. Michael McCaul, Texas Republican (Associated Press) **FILE**

Rep. McCaul: Islamic State doesn’t fit into Obama’s ‘narrative’

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

EDS NOTE: GRAPHIC CONTENT - This image made from video posted on the Internet by Islamic State militants and provided by the SITE&#160;Intelligence Group, a U.S. terrorism watchdog, on Saturday, Sept. 13, 2014, purports to show British aid worker David Haines before he was beheaded. The video emerged hours after the family of Haines issued a public plea on Saturday urging his captors to contact them. The 44-year-old Haines was abducted in Syria in 2013 while working for an international aid agency. (AP Photo)

Islamic State video purports to show killing of British aid worker David Haines

Associated Press

US Secretary of State John Kerry, left, shakes hand with Turkey's foreign minister Mevlut Cavusoglu upon his arrival at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Ankara, Turkey, Friday, Sept. 12, 2014. Kerry is in the region to speak with leaders about strategies to address the threat from the Islamic State, a militant extremist group. John Kerry said that the US would provide an additional $500 million in humanitarian aid to victims of the war in Syria, bringing total American assistance to $2.9 billion since the start of the conflict in 2011. (AP Photo/Brendan Smialowski, Pool)

Kerry says no to Iran’s help against Islamic group

By Lara Jakes - Associated Press

FILE - In this undated file photo posted on Monday, June 30, 2014 by the Raqqa Media Center of the Islamic State group, a militant extremist group, which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting, fighters from extremist Islamic State group parade in Raqqa, Syria. In staging airstrikes against Islamic State extremists in Syria, the U.S. may find itself in a confounding morass teeming with jihadis, rebel rivalries and sectarian hatred. (AP Photo/Raqqa Media Center of the Islamic State group, File)

Islamic State now 30,000 fighters strong, CIA says

By S.A. Miller - The Washington Times

In this Sept. 10, 2014, photo, President Barack Obama addresses the nation from the Cross Hall in the White House in Washington. As a U.S. senator from Illinois running for the White House in 2007, Obama sponsored a resolution to prohibit President George W. Bush’s administration from taking military action against Iran unless it was explicitly authorized by Congress. His idea died in committee. Obama said Wednesday he had authorized U.S. airstrikes inside Syria for the first time, along with expanded strikes in Iraq, as part of &quot;a steady, relentless effort&quot; to root out Islamic State extremists. He did not say how long he expected the fighting to last. (AP Photo/Saul Loeb, Pool)

Can Obama wage war without consent of Congress?

By STEPHEN BRAUN - Associated Press

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Bipartisan malfeasance in the Middle East

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Illustration on Obama's renewed military posturing by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Americans link violence with Muslims, but Obama says ISIS is not Islam

By Kelsey Dallas - Deseret News

HUMPHRIES: The Liberal Bully of the Week: The antiwar left

By Rusty Humphries

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott speaks during a joint press conference with his Malaysian counterpart Najib Razak after a meeting in Putrajaya, Malaysia, in this Sept. 6, 2014, file photo. The Australian government on Friday, Sept. 12, 2014, elevated its terrorism threat level to the second-highest warning in response to the domestic threat posed by Islamic State movement supporters. (AP Photo/Lai Seng Sin, File)

Australian terrorism threat level raised to ‘high’ over Islamic State intelligence reports

By Rod McGuirk - Associated Press

** FILE ** This undated file image attached in a statement released on Saturday, Aug. 30, 2014, on the Hanin Network website, a militant website, shows Fijian U.N. peacekeepers who were seized by The Nusra Front on Thursday, Aug. 28, 2014, in the Golan Heights in the buffer zone between Syria and Israel. Fiji confirmed Thursday that soldiers shown in a new video posted online are its 45 United Nations peacekeepers being held captive in Syria. (AP Photo/Hanin Network Website, File)

U.N.: 45 Fijian peacekeepers freed in Syria

By Ryan Lucas and Edith M. Lederer - Associated Press

Republican Reps. Trent Franks, Matt Salmon and David Schweikert wrote a letter to Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric Shinseki on Tuesday, citing reports that officials at the Phoenix Veterans Health Care System had kept a "secret list" of patient requests in order to conceal the fact that some patients were being made to wait more. "As a direct result of such practices, the deaths of over 40 veterans have come to light," they wrote in the letter. (associated press photographs)

Both sides of Congress have own red lines for Obama’s action in Syria

By David Sherfinski and Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Oman Foreign Minister Yusuf bin Alawi bin Abdullah and U.S. Secretary of State John F. Kerry talk before a meeting of the Gulf Arab region in Jiddah, Saudi Arabia, Thursday. Mr. Kerry sought to pin down Middle Eastern allies on what support they are willing to give to the new U.S. plan to beat back the Islamic State militant group. (Associated Press)

West, Arab nations take aim to stop Islamic State

By Janelle Dumalaon and Luigi Serenelli — Special to The Washington Times

** FILE ** In this undated file image posted by the Raqqa Media Center, a Syrian opposition group, on Monday, June 30, 2014, which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting, fighters from Islamic State group sit on their tank during a parade in Raqqa, Syria. (AP Photo/Raqqa Media Center, File)

Syrian opposition welcomes Obama’s announcement

By Zeina Karam - Associated Press

President Barack Obama addresses the nation from the Cross Hall in the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2014. In a major reversal, Obama ordered the United States into a broad military campaign to &#8220;degrade and ultimately destroy&#8221; militants in two volatile Middle East nations, authorizing airstrikes inside Syria for the first time, as well as an expansion of strikes in Iraq. (AP Photo/Saul Loeb, Pool)

O’DONNELL: No action in Syria is better than half-hearted action

By Christine O’Donnell

Illustration on Obama's renewed military posturing by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

LAMBRO: The president’s belated about-face on fighting terrorism

By Donald Lambro

Oman's Foreign Minister Yusuf bin Alawi bin Abdullah (left) and Secretary of State John F. Kerry at met with Mideast allies and asked what support they can to give to the U.S. plan to combat the Islamic State group. (Associated Press)

Wary Mideast allies gauge roles in Obama strategy

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

In this undated file image posted by the Raqqa Media Center, a Syrian opposition group, on Monday, June 30, 2014, which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting, fighters from Islamic State group parade in Raqqa, Syria. (AP Photo/Raqqa Media Center, File)

2016 hopefuls weigh in on Obama’s strategy against Islamic State

By Kellan Howell - The Washington Times

HUMPHRIES: Liberal Bully of the Week: The Antiwar Left

By Rusty Humphries

In this photo released by an official website of the Iranian supreme leader's office, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks during a meeting in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, Sept. 7, 2014. (AP Photo/Office of the Supreme Leader) ** FILE **

LOPEZ: Obama pledges additional support for Iranian puppet regimes

By Clare Lopez