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**FILE** German Chancellor Adolf Hitler (right) salutes a huge crowd July 31, 1938, at a sports meeting in Breslau, Germany. (Associated Press)

FEIN: Not the president of the world

By Bruce Fein

Members of the U.S. military present the American flag before the first half of an NFL football game between the Dallas Cowboys and the San Francisco 49ers, Sunday, Sept. 7, 2014, in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/Tim Sharp)

HEGSETH:Beyond a strategy of no strategy

By Pete Hegseth

In this image made through a window of the Oval Office, President Barack Obama speaks on the phone to Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah from his desk at the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2014, ahead of his address to the nation tonight regarding Iraq and Islamic State group militants. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Ahead of prime-time address, Obama convenes national security team

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

New Iraqi prime minister meets with Kerry, pledges to stop militants

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

President Obama addresses the nation from the Cross Hall in the White House in Washington. (Associated Press)

Obama: Offensive against Islamic State ‘will be different’ from Iraq, Afghanistan

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Former Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson and three of his top aides have used personal email accounts for government business, feeding the growing legal storm over secret accounts and how much access the public should have to those records. (Associated Press/File)

No current intelligence Islamic State plotting attacks on U.S.: Homeland Security

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

This 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. With al-Qaida linked fighters and allied tribal gunmen camped on the outskirts, a tentative calm took hold over Fallujah on Friday, Jan. 10, 2014 and residents started to return to the besieged city west of Baghdad. Government forces were stationed nearby as sporadic street fighting breaks out in other cities. The picture painted by residents, officials and international groups suggests that both the militants and government forces are preparing for a long standoff with civilians caught in the middle.(AP Photo via militant website)

Islamic State militants organized, trained, financed, growing in numbers: U.S. intelligence

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

** FILE ** This undated file image posted on a militant website on Jan. 14, 2014, which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting, shows fighters from the al Qaeda-linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) marching in Raqqa, Syria. (AP Photo/Militant Website, File)

Colorado woman pleads guilty in terror case

By SADIE GURMAN - Associated Press

Dick Cheney: Obama’s ‘distrust’ of using American power fanned world chaos

By S.A. Miller - The Washington Times

President Obama addresses the nation from the Cross Hall in the White House. (AP Photo/Saul Loeb, Pool)

Text of Obama’s speech

By White House - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Aug. 28, 2014 file photo, President Barack Obama speaks in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, before convening a meeting with his national security team on the militant threat in Syria and Iraq. The U.S. and its allies are trying to hammer out a coalition to push back the Islamic State group in Iraq. But any serious attempt to destroy the militants or even seriously degrade their capabilities means targeting their infrastructure in Syria. That, however, is far more complicated. If it launches airstrikes against the group in Syria, the U.S. runs the risk of unintentionally strengthening the hand of President Bashar Assad, whose removal the West has actively sought the past three years. Uprooting the Islamic State, which has seized swaths of territory in both Syria and Iraq, would potentially open the way for the Syrian army to fill the vacuum. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Obama to reveal Islamic State strategy in prime-time address

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Over 6,000 school children assembled into a "living" American flag at Fort McHenry, all to celebrate the 200th anniversary of "The Star Spangled Banner" on Tuesday. (National Park Service)

Inside the Beltway: The president takes it to prime time

By Jennifer Harper - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Syria's Ahrar al-Sham members train at a camp in outside Damascus, December, 2013. (Associated Press)

Bombing kills Hassan Aboud, head of Syrian rebel group: report

Associated Press

In urging action to counter the Islamic State persecution of Middle Eastern Christians, Bechara Boutros Rai of Lebanon emphasizes that religious freedom is a universal right. (associated press)

World religious leaders urge unity in stopping Islamic State

By Meredith Somers - The Washington Times

White House press secretary Josh Earnest speaks about the militant group al-Shabab in Somalia, during his daily news briefing at the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2014. Earnest also spoke about reports that a video on the internet that purports to show beheading of US reporter Steven Sotloff by Islamic State group. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Obama invites Congress in for Islamic State talks

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

“The REAL Benghazi Story” hits bookstore shelves Tuesday, just in time for the two-year anniversary of the terrorist attack on a U.S. diplomatic post in Libya. Author Aaron Klein explains how the Obama administration “cannot be trusted with U.S. national security.”

Inside the Beltway: Book reveals secrets and lies behind the Benghazi scandal

By Jennifer Harper - The Washington Times

Sen. Bill Nelson, Florida Democrat, is hammering out a legislative proposal to authorize U.S. military strikes on Islamic State targets within Syria. (associated press)

Pressure on Obama to select, implement Islamic State plan

By Jacqueline Klimas and Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Sunday April 20, 2014 file photo, released French hostage Nicolas Henin arrives at the Villacoublay military airbase, outside Paris. A French journalist held hostage for months by extremists in Syria says one of his captors was a Frenchman suspected of killing four people at the Brussels Jewish Museum earlier this year. French magazine Le Point on Saturday, Sept. 6, 2014, quotes its reporter Nicolas Henin as saying he was tortured by Mehdi Nemmouche, a Frenchman who had spent time with extremists in Syria. Henin was held for a time with American journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff, both beheaded by extremists from the Islamic State group in recent weeks. He was released in April with other French journalists who had been held since June 2013. Nemmouche is in custody since his arrest in France soon after the Brussels killing in May. The attack crystallized fears of European governments that Europeans who join radical fighters in Syria could return to stage attacks at home. (AP Photo/Jacques Brinon, file)

French ex-hostage once held with Foley, Sotloff identifies captor in Syria

Associated Press