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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**

EDITORIAL: Iraq crumbles on Obama’s watch

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Illustration on Obama's role in the Syria crisis by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

BERMAN: Chaos in Syria is Obama’s own

By Ilan Berman

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**

Senior official on briefing on terror group in Iraq, Syria: ‘It makes you want to kill yourself’

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Obama’s neglect emboldens enemy in Iraq

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi

Al-Baghdadi, a brutal contender for bin Laden’s mantle, emerges in Iraq

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

REFUGEES: Iraqis fleeing Mosul arrive at Khazir refugee camp outside Irbil, 217 miles (350 kilometers) north of Baghdad following an al Qaeda breakaway group's takeover of their home city. An estimated half a million fled Iraq's second-largest city. (associated press)

Gains by al Qaeda group in Iraq spark fears of a decade’s progress lost

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

In this Monday, June 9, 2014, image taken from video obtained from the Iraqi military, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, military soldiers prepare to take their positions during clashes with militants in the northern city of Mosul, Iraq. (AP Photo/Iraqi Military via AP video)

Sunni militants overrun Mosul as Iraq’s P.M. calls for state of emergency

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

FILE - This January 19, 2014, file photo provided by Aleppo Media Center (AMC), an anti-Bashar Assad activist group, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows Syrian citizens inspecting an unexploded barrel bomb filled with explosives, which was dropped from a Syrian forces helicopter on a street in Aleppo, Syria. The use of barrel bombs has spread this year from Syria to Iraq, raising concerns that desperate governments in a number of unstable nations from Europe to Africa to the Middle East will turn to weapons that the international community has condemned as a violation of human rights laws. (AP Photo/Aleppo Media Center, AMC, File)

Increased use of barrel bombs in Mideast, Africa

By LARA JAKES - Associated Press

A Syrian woman rides in a car painted in the colors of the Syrian flag with President Bashar Assad's portrait in Damascus, Syria, Tuesday, June 3, 2014. Polls opened in government-held areas in Syria amid very tight security Tuesday for the country's presidential election, a vote that President Bashar Assad is widely expected to win. (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic)

Syria’s Assad wins presidential vote in landslide; opposition calls outcome a farce

Associated Press

FILE – This May 27, 2014, file photo shows Yemeni boys looking at a vehicle destroyed during a police raid on an al-Qaida militants' hideout in the Arhab region, north of Sanaa, Yemen, which resulted in the death of five militants and six soldiers. According to the Obama administration’s most recent terrorism report, released by the State Department in late April, al-Qaida's core leadership has been degraded, limiting its ability to launch attacks and lead its followers. This has resulted in more autonomous and more aggressive affiliates, notably in Yemen, Syria, Iraq, northwest Africa and Somalia, according to the report, which recorded a 43 percent increase in terrorist attacks worldwide from 2012 to 2013. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)

Al-Qaida decentralized, but not necessarily weaker

By DEB RIECHMANN - Associated Press

FILE - In this hand out file photo distributed on Sunday, May 25, 2014 by the Belgian Federal Police, a surveillance camera shows a man shooting at the Jewish museum in Brussels, Belgium, on Saturday, May 24, 2014. The Paris prosecutor's office said a man has been arrested Friday May 30, 2014 in the investigation of the shooting at the Jewish museum in Brussels that left at least three people dead. (AP Photo/Belgian Federal Police, File)

Suspect in Jewish museum killings went to Syria

By JOHN-THOR DAHLBURG and ELAINE GANLEY - Associated Press

Officials: Syrian suicide bomber was an American

By MATTHEW LEE and ZEINA KARAM - Associated Press

Illustration on the withdrawal of American force around the world by Paul Tong/Tribune Content Agency

LAMBRO: Obama and a U.S. world leadership deficit

By Donald Lambro

** FILE ** Syria has become a focal point for the State Department in the war on terrorism as al Qaeda-linked groups operating there — specifically the al-Nusrah Front — have expansionist aspirations. (Aleppo Media Center AMC via Associated Press)

U.S. citizen carries out suicide bombing in Syria

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

UN: Syria won’t meet deadline to destroy chemicals

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

Lebanese Red Cross workers help Syrians who fainted while on their way to the Syrian embassy to vote in the presidential election in Yarze, east of Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, May 28, 2014. Thousands of supporters of Bashar Assad flocked to their embassy in Lebanon on Wednesday as expat voting started ahead of Syria's June 3 presidential election - a vote highly contentious amid the civil war but one that is widely expected to give the Syrian president a third seven-year term in office. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Obama: Syrian opposition needs more support

Associated Press

President Barack Obama arrives to deliver the commencement address to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point's Class of 2014, in this Wednesday, May 28, 2014, file photo from West Point, N.Y. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Obama seeks ground between intervention, isolation

By JULIE PACE and JIM KUHNHENN - Associated Press