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Smoke rises following an airstrike by the U.S.-led coalition in Kobani, Syria as fighting continues between Syrian Kurds and the militants of Islamic State group, as seen from Mursitpinar, on the outskirts of Suruc, at the Turkey-Syria border, Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2014. Kobani, also known as Ayn Arab, and its surrounding areas, has been under assault by extremists of the Islamic State group since mid-September and is being defended by Kurdish fighters. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

Military officials from 22 countries meet to plot war strategy against Islamic State

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

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Pentagon spokesman moonlighted as provocative photographer

By Jeffrey Scott Shapiro - The Washington Times

An Afghan laborer walks past a gate of Camp Qargha as Afghanistan National Army soldiers stand guard, west of Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2014. Earlier in the day, a man dressed in an Afghan army uniform opened fire on foreign troops at the military base, killing a U.S. two-star general and wounding others, among them a German brigadier general and a number of Americans troops, authorities said. (Associated Press) **FILE**

3 Afghani soldiers missing from Cape Cod base

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

Vehicles are stopped by security personal as they enter a gate Monday, Sept. 22, 2014, to Camp Edwards, Mass., on Cape Cod. Police and military officials were searching Monday for three soldiers from the Afghanistan National Army who went missing Saturday during a training exercise at the base. The Afghan soldiers had been participating in a U.S. Central Command Regional Cooperation training exercise at Joint Base Cape Cod, at Camp Edwards, U.S. military officials said. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

Officials locate 3 Afghan soldiers missing after trip to Cape Cod mall

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Health workers, attend to patients that contracted the Ebola virus, at a clinic in Monrovia, Liberia, Monday, Sept. 8, 2014. (AP Photo/Abbas Dulleh)

U.S. military to build, equip Liberia hospital for Ebola health care workers

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

An AH-64 Apache attack helicopter. (Associated Press)

Additional U.S. troops begin arriving in Iraq

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

Troops march and salute Maj. Gen. Stephen R. Lyons, the new commanding officer, during a change of command ceremony Friday, Aug. 22, 2014, at Fort Lee, Va. Lyons arrived from Fort Shafter, Hawaii. (AP Photo/The Progress-Index, Patrick Kane)

Fort Lee shooter dies of self-inflicted gunshot

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Wednesday, June 25, 2014 file photo, Kurdish peshmerga fighters take positions on the front line with militants from the al-Qaida-inspired Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), in Tuz Khormato, 100 kilometers (62 miles) south of the oil rich province of Kirkuk, northern Iraq. The Kurdish forces trying to protect this northern Iraqi town have felt the brunt of Islamic extremist fighters&#8217; attacks and know how ferocious it is. The militants are bristling with American weapons and armored Humvees looted from Iraqi arsenals, giving them a powerful edge. After Washington&#8217;s promises to arm them, the Kurds say they badly need heavier weapons from the United States to stem the expansion of the Islamic State group. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)

Pentagon planning for weapons delivery to Kurdish fighters

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

A pro-Russian rebel prepares to fire a rocket propelled grenade on the rooftop of an apartment building during clashes during clashes as they attack a border guard base held by Ukrainian troops on the outskirts of Luhansk, eastern Ukraine, Monday, June 2, 2014. Some hundreds of pro-Russia insurgents attacked the base on Monday, with some firing rocket-propelled grenades from the roof of a nearby residential building. At least five rebels were killed when the guards returned fire, a spokesman for the border guard service said. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

Russia shipping sophisticated weapons systems to Ukraine separatists

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

Russian soldiers stand near a tank at a former Ukrainian military base in Perevalne, outside Simferopol, Crimea, March 27, 2014. Russia last week completed the annexation of Crimea following a referendum in which an overwhelming number of residents voted to break off from Ukraine and join Russia. The vote, rejected by Ukraine and the West, was hastily called after Russian forces had overtaken the peninsula. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

Evidence shows Russia firing artillery into Ukraine: Pentagon

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

Russian troops march during the Victory Day Parade in Red Square in Moscow, Russia, Friday, May 9, 2014. Thousands of Russian troops marched on Red Square in the annual Victory Day parade in a proud display of the nation's military might amid escalating tensions over Ukraine. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

Russian forces return to Ukraine border

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

Detainees sleep and watch television in a holding cell where hundreds of mostly Central American immigrant children are being processed and held at the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Nogales Placement Center on Wednesday, June 18, 2014, in Nogales, Ariz. CPB provided media tours Wednesday of two locations in Brownsville, Texas, and Nogales, that have been central to processing the more than 47,000 unaccompanied children who have entered the country illegally since Oct. 1. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, Pool)

Pentagon considering raising cap on illegal immigrant children housed at bases

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

Children are held at a U.S. Customs and Border Protection processing facility in Brownsville, Texas. Thousands of children crossing alone into the U.S. can live in American cities, attend public schools and possibly work for years without consequences. (Associated Press)

Pentagon approaching cap for housing immigrant children at military bases

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

A destroyed Iraqi army humvee is left behind outside of the northern city of Mosul, Iraq, Wednesday, June 25, 2014, more than two weeks after the al-Qaida-inspired Islamic Sate of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) took over the country's second largest city. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry warned Mideast nations on Wednesday against taking new military action in Iraq that might heighten already-tense sectarian divisions, as reports surfaced that Syria launched airstrikes across the border and Iran has been flying surveillance drones over the neighboring country. (AP Photo)

Additional U.S. forces arriving in Iraq

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

In this image released by the Presidential Palace, Afghan President Hamid Karzai speaks after casting his vote at a polling station in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, June 14, 2014. Despite Taliban threats of violence, many Afghans vow to cast ballots in Saturday&#8217;s presidential runoff vote with hopes that whoever replaces Karzai will be able to provide security and stability after international forces wind down their combat mission at the end of this year. (AP Photo/Presidential Palace)

Karzai, presidential candidates not on deputy defense secretary’s Afghanistan agenda

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

This is a undated handout file photo issued by the Royal Yachting Association, via the PA, on Monday May 19, 2014 show the missing yacht Cheeki Rafiki . The families of four missing British yachtsmen are imploring the U.S. Coast Guard to resume the search for the men, whose boat capsized in the mid-Atlantic. The Cheeki Rafiki was returning from a regatta in Antigua when it ran into trouble about 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) east of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, on Thursday. The 40-foot high performance Beneteau yacht diverted to the Azores, but contact was lost on Friday. (AP Photo/Royal Yachting Association/PA) UNITED KINGDOM OUT NO SALES NO ARCHIVE

UK families plead for US to resume yacht search

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**FILE** U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel talks to South Korean Defense Minister Kim Kwan-jin on the phone from his aircraft after he finished the last stop in Ulan Bator, Mongolia, of his Asian Pacific trip April 10, 2014. (AP Photo/Alex Wong, Pool)

Chuck Hagel can’t get Russian defense counterpart on phone

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel speaks to the media aboard a plane en route for his trip to Mexico City Wednesday, April 23, 2014. (AP Photo/Shannon Stapleton, Pool)

Russian jets enter Ukrainian airspace; Pentagon calls for nation to ‘deescalate the situation’

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

FILE In this Oct. 1, 1999 file photo a Topol-M intercontinental ballistic missile is launched from the northern Plesetsk cosmodrome in Russia. A Russian Cabinet member says Moscow has reserved the right to use nuclear weapons in response to a conventional strike. Wednesday's comments by Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin carried by Russian news agencies reflected Moscow's concern with prospective U.S. weapons. (AP Photo/Str)

Russia test-fires ICBM amid tension over Ukraine

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times