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Illustration on the dangerous jihadist mind by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

MAY: Talking with the jihadists is a strategy for losing

By Clifford D. May

In this Thursday, June 19, 2014 photo, Syrian refugee children stand outside their tent at a Syrian refugee camp in the eastern Lebanese town of Majdal Anjar, Lebanon. For the first time since the World War II era, the number of people forced from their homes worldwide has surged past 50 million, the United Nations refugee agency said on Friday. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Syria hands over last of declared chemical weapons

Associated Press

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, left, meets with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, June 23, 2014. Kerry flew to Baghdad on Monday to meet with Iraq's leaders and personally urge the Shiite-led government to give more power to political opponents before a Sunni insurgency seizes more control across the country and sweeps away hopes for lasting peace. (AP Photo/Brendan Smialowski, Pool)

John Kerry urges political reform in Iraq

By Lara Jakes and Hamza Hendawi - Associated Press

In an interview on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" on Monday, President Obama said ISIL could directly threaten U.S. national security — a potential justification for airstrikes or other involvement. (Associated Press)

Syria precedent may complicate broad moves on Iraq

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Iraqi Army soldiers parade inside the main army recruiting center during a recruiting drive for men to volunteer for military service in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, June 19, 2014, after authorities urged Iraqis to help battle insurgents. The campaign by the al-Qaida-inspired Islamic State militants has raised the specter of the sectarian warfare that nearly tore the country apart in 2006 and 2007, with the popular mobilization to fight the insurgents taking an increasingly sectarian slant, particularly after Iraq's top Shiite cleric made a call to arms on Friday. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)y the country's top Shiite cleric to join the fight against Sunni militants advancing in the north. (AP Photo/ Karim Kadim)

Talking about Iraq? Why you should say ‘ISIL’ - not “ISIS’

By Jennifer Harper - The Washington Times

Feds: 2 Texas men arrested on terrorism charges

By Nomaan Merchant - Associated Press

Supporters of anti-U.S. Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr wave Iraqi flags as they destroy a symbolic model of a U.S. Army tank during a rally marking the seventh anniversary of the fall of the Iraqi capital to American troops in the holy Shiite city of Najaf, Iraq, Friday, April 9, 2010.(AP Photo/Karim Kadim)

HARPER: In Iraq, truth is the first casualty of war

By Christopher Harper

This undated file image posted on a militant website on Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2014 shows fighters from the al Qaeda-linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) marching in Raqqa, Syria. (AP Photo/Militant Website, File)

ISIL using Twitter app ‘Dawn’ to keep jihadists updated

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

Illustration on Islamist plans for world domination by Linas Garsys/ The Washington Times

MAY: Years of living dangerously

By Clifford D. May

Volunteers train at a military base in the Shiite holy city of Najaf, 100 miles south of Baghdad, on Tuesday after authorities urged Iraqis to help battle insurgents. Signs emerged of a reprisal of a sectarian slaughter in Iraq. Police said pro-government Shiite militiamen killed nearly four dozen detainees after insurgents tried to storm a prison northeast of Baghdad. (Associated Press)

Iraqi Shiites take a stand against Sunni extremists heading for Baghdad

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Fighters from the jihadist rebel group Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham march in Raqqa, Syria, from an undated photo released on a jihadist website Jan. 14, 2014. (Associated Press) **FILE**

HUSAIN: United States, Iran and Iraq may team up to strike critical blow to ISIS

By Rahat Husain

Iraqis who have fled the violence in their hometown of Mosul unload their car at Khazir refugee camp outside of Irbil, 217 miles north of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday. (associated press)

Obama administration hints at alliance with Iran on Iraqi militants in policy reversal

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Security forces patrol on Tahrir Square in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, June 16, 2014. Sunni militants captured a key northern Iraqi town along the highway to Syria early on Monday, compounding the woes of Iraq's Shiite-led government a week after it lost a vast swath of territory to the insurgents in the country's north. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

Sunni militants capture Iraqi city near Syria

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA and SAMEER N. YACOUB - Associated Press

This image posted on a militant website on Saturday, June 14, 2014, which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting, appears to show militants from the al-Qaida-inspired Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) leading away captured Iraqi soldiers in plain clothes after taking over a base in Tikrit, Iraq. (AP Photo via militant website)

Criticism of Obama mounts as Islamists sweep through Iraq

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Sen. Lindsey Graham said Sunday that the decision to withdraw U.S. forces from Iraq has made the chances for another 9/11-like attack on American soil "inevitable." (CBS News)

Sen. Lindsey Graham says a new 9/11 is ‘inevitable’

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Rep. Mike Rogers, Michigan Republican. (Associated Press)

Rogers: Decisive U.S. action needed in Iraq

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times