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Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a joint news conference with Cyprus' President Nicos Anastasiades in the Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2015. Russia and Cyprus have signed a military cooperation agreement that would allow Russian navy ships to make regular port calls on the island. (AP Photo/Yuri Kadobnov, Pool)

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Ignatius Joseph III Younan, Patriarch of Antioch of the Syriac Catholics, leaves a church where displaced Iraqi Christian families, who fled the village of Hamdaniya near Mosul, had taken refuge, in Irbil, Iraq, Sunday, June 29, 2014. Thousands of Iraqi Christians flocked back home Wednesday, days after they fled their villages that came under attack by Sunni insurgents led by the al-Qaida inspired Islamic Sate in Iraq and the Levant, after ruling Kurdish forces told them it was safe to return. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

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Saying "Iran will not get a nuclear weapon," Secretary of State John F. Kerry defended the Obama administration's negotiations with Iran. He testified that U.S. policy is to prevent such a scenario. (Associated Press)

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Women in traditional Muslim dress take part in prayers outside the federal courthouse before a jury found 35-year-old Amina Farah Ali and 64-year-old Hawo Mohamed Hassan guilty on all counts Thursday, Oct. 20, 2011, in Minneapolis of conspiring to funnel money to a terrorist group in Somalia. Prosecutors say the women, U.S. citizens of Somali descent, were part of a "deadly pipeline" that routed money and fighters from the U.S. to Somalia. (Associated Press)

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Adm. Mike Rogers, the director of the National Security Administration and commander of the U.S. Cyber Command (Associated Press) **FILE**

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President Obama's proposal for a new authorization for the use of military force would leave in place a 2001 war resolution authorizing the fight against al Qaeda. The president already has been using the 2001 resolution to justify six months of airstrikes and other combat operations against Islamic State fighters. (Associated Press)

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"I was ... mind-boggled and didn't understand at all how this could be part of a strategic plan in what they're talking about," Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, a captain in the Hawaii Army National Guard and Iraq War veteran, said on CNN. "That you're not only outlining the timeline — which is troubling, but you're also talking about specifically how many troops, how many brigades, where they're coming from, and what they're going to be doing." (Associated Press)

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Europol's director Rob Wainwright said as many as 2,500 European-born fighters are likely to be in "various stages of returning" to the continent after joining the Islamic State terrorist group in Iraq and Syria. (Associated Press/File)

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National Edition News cover for February 23, 2015 - Islamic State recruits create global network of terror cells: FILE - In this undated file photo posted on Wednesday, Aug. 27, 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 of the Islamic State wave the group's flag from a damaged display of a government fighter jet following the battle for the Tabqa air base, in Raqqa, Syria. The Islamic State group may be sprouting tentacles across the region but it is struggling in Syria, part of its heartland, where it has stalled or even lost ground in fighting with multiple enemies on multiple fronts. There are signs of tensions and powers struggles emerging among its ranks of foreign jihadis. (AP Photo/Raqqa Media Center of the Islamic State group, File)

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Russian President Vladimir Putin gestures at the award ceremony in St. George Hall of the Grand Kremlin Palace in Moscow, Friday, Feb. 20, 2015. President Putin awarded World War II veterans with jubilee medals marking the 70th victory anniversary of World War II. (AP Photo/Sergei Ilnitsky, Pool) ** FILE **

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"Little Boy" - an inspirational film set in the World War II era - is set for nationwide release on April 25.

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People gather to share scarce water, in al-Baghdadi, about 180 kilometers (110 miles) northwest of Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Feb. 19, 2015. All across Iraq, there has been rapid advance by Islamic State extremists over the past year. (AP Photo)

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National Edition News cover for February 21, 2015 - Ex-SEAL who killed bin Laden predicts ground troops in Iraq: Robert O'Neill, the Navy SEAL who killed Osama bin Laden, believes President Obama's advisers have come to realize the beleaguered Iraqi Security Forces, without U.S. boots on the ground, are not capable of taking back all the territory seized by the Islamic State, including the country's second-largest city — densely defended Mosul. (Associated Press)

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The Metropolitan Police are looking for three teenage girls who boarded a plane at Gatwick Airport, south of London, bound for Turkey. (Image: United Kingdom, Metropolitain Police)

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Egyptian journalists hold a protest for Christians who were killed in Libya, at the journalists syndicate in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2015. An Islamic State video released on 15 February claimed to show the extremist group beheading 21 Egyptian Christians abducted in Libya more than a month ago. Arabic on the banners read, "a protest to morn the victims of terrorism in Libya," top, " we are not afraid from ISIS terrorism," center. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

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National Edition News cover for February 20, 2015 - U.S., coalition plan to rid Iraqi city of Islamic State: FILE - In this June 23, 2014, file photo, fighters from the Islamic State group parade in a commandeered Iraqi security forces armored vehicle down a main road at the northern city of Mosul, Iraq. Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi’s fighters took over Iraq's second-largest city of Mosul in June, 2014, followed by Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit and smaller communities in the Sunni heartland as government forces melt away.(AP Photo/File)

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The words "Never Again" are projected onto the ceiing of a tent during an event marking the 20th anniversary of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, Monday, April 29, 2013. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

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NATO's Supreme Allied Commander for Europe (SACEUR) US General Philip Breedlove speaks at a press conference at the KFOR military headquarters in capital Pristina on Thursday, Feb. 19, 2015 during his visit to Kosovo. (Associated Press)