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Iraqi prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, speaks at a press conference with Turkey's Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Nov. 20, 2014. Iraq’s prime minister said on Thursday that his country and neighboring Turkey have agreed on closer security and intelligence cooperation in the face of the threat posed by the Islamic State group. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban, Pool)
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The Islamic State has $2 billion in its coffers, making it the most well-funded terror group in history. Officials say that experts in Russia and Bulgaria may be persuaded to provide weapons training to the organization for the right price. (associated press)
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U.S. Marine Chief Warrant officer Rob Kurzwell from Chicago, second right, helps fellow soldiers pack their supplies on to a bus afer landing of a U.S. Air Force plane on to the tarmac at the airport in Colombo, Sri Lanka Wednesday Jan, 5, 2005. Seventeen U.S. Marines arrived in the Sri Lankan capital Colombo on Wednesday with two helicopters and an additional staff of 30 U.S. Air Force military communication and technical experts who will serve as the helicopter ground crew. They will take part in the aid, rescue and recovery mission going on in the region in response to last week's devastating tsunami. (AP Photo/Elizabeth Dalziel)
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Gunman clash with Iraqi security forces in Fallujah, Iraq, Jan. 5, 2014. (Associated Press) ** FILE **
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FILE - This file 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, now called the Islamic State group, in Iraq's Anbar Province. “We can’t stop this thing, but we can limit it,” a former Islamic State group commander told the Associated Press of the Sunni militant group’s ambition to create a self-styled caliphate. “Daesh has nothing to lose,” he added, using the group’s Arabic acronym. ”They like it when (they are) hot in the news.” The former commander was interviewed at an Iraqi prison where he is now held and works as an informant.(AP Photo/militant website, File)
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Afghan and foreign security forces inspect the site of a suicide attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2014. A least four people were killed in a suicide attack in Kabul early Tuesday, the latest in a series of fatal blasts to hit the Afghan capital. In what appears to have been a complex attack, a small truck packed with explosives rammed the gate of a compound housing foreigners on the city's eastern outskirts soon after sunrise, said Interior Ministry spokesman Sediq Sediqqi. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)
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Illustration on Obama's high risk negotiations with Iran over their nuclear weapon development by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times
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The Kremlin unveiled its latest weapon to combat the West's "information war" on President Vladimir Putin with the launch of Sputnik — a lavishly funded, international media outlet whose advent heralds a silencing of dissent and criticism in Russia. (AP Photo/Alain Jocard, Pool)
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The Redskins cheerleaders show their support for the troops with their performance after the third quarter at FedExField, Landover, Md., Nov. 16, 2014. (Preston Keres/Special for The Washington Times)
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The Redskins cheerleaders show their support for the troops with their performance after the third quarter at FedExField, Landover, Md., Nov. 16, 2014. (Preston Keres/Special for The Washington Times)
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This undated file photo provided by the Kassig Family shows Peter Kassig standing in front of a truck filled with supplies for Syrian refugees. A new graphic video purportedly produced by Islamic State militants in Syria released Sunday Nov. 16, 2014 claims U.S. aid worker Kassig was beheaded. (AP Photo/Courtesy Kassig Family, File) — FILE
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An unidentified visitor wearing a U.S. military nurse uniform walks past graves at the American cemetery, in Colleville-sur-Mer, western France, on June 6, 2007, marking the 63rd anniversary of the D-Day landings in Normandy. (Associated Press) **FILE**
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Sgt. Myles Kibby, left, kisses his girlfriend, Spc. Bryanna Brennan, on the forehead after she returned to Fort Carson, Colo., Friday, Nov. 14, 2014, with about 135 members of the 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division. The soldiers returned home after a nine-month deployment to Afghanistan training and supporting Afghan national security forces. (AP Photo/The Colorado Springs Gazette, Michael Ciaglo) MAGS OUT
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In this file photo taken Thursday, June 19, 2014, al Qaeda-inspired militants stand with captured Iraqi army Humvee at a checkpoint outside an oil refinery in Beiji, some 250 kilometers (155 miles) north of Baghdad, Iraq. The government forces on Friday, Nov. 14, drove Islamic State militants out from their remaining strongholds inside the oil refinery town of Beiji, two security official said, in a key victory over the terror group that has captured much of northern and western Iraq in a stunning summer offensive. (AP Photo, File)
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FILE - In this file photo taken Thursday, June 19, 2014, a column of smoke rises from an oil refinery in Beiji, some 250 kilometers (155 miles) north of Baghdad, Iraq. The government forces on Friday, Nov. 14, drove Islamic State militants out from their remaining strongholds inside the oil refinery town of Beiji, two security official said, in a key victory over the terror group that has captured much of northern and western Iraq in a stunning summer offensive. (AP Photo, File)
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Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey (right) listens Thursday as Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel testifies on Capitol Hill before the House Armed Services committee hearing on the Islamic State. (Associated Press)
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This painting depicts Gen. George Washington and his troops on the march to Valley Forge during the American Revolutionary War. (AP Photo)
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In this undated file image posted by the Raqqa Media Center, a Syrian opposition group, on Monday, June 30, 2014, which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting, fighters from the al Qaeda-linked Islamic State group parade in Raqqa, Syria. (AP Photo/Raqqa Media Center of the Islamic State group, File)
