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Freed Turkish hostages arrive at the airport in Ankara, Turkey, Saturday, Sept. 20, 2014. Dozens of Turkish hostages seized by Islamic militants in Iraq three months ago were freed and safely returned to Turkey on Saturday ending Turkey’s most serious hostage crisis. The 49 hostages were captured from the Turkish Consulate in Mosul, Iraq on June 11, when the Islamic State group overran the city in its surge to seize large swaths of Iraq and Syria. (AP Photo)
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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, right, talks with Russian permanent resident to the United Nations Vitaly Churkin before a meeting of the U.N. Security Council, Friday, Sept. 19, 2014, at the United Nations. The security council met Friday to discuss the situation in Iraq. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)
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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, adjusts his translation ear piece during a U.N. Security Council meeting, Friday, Sept. 19, 2014, at the United Nations headquarters. The Security Council met Friday to discuss the situation of the Islamic State group in Iraq. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)
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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry opens a meeting on Iraq at the U.N. Security Council, Friday, Sept. 19, 2014. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
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D.C. police are looking for vandals who tagged Northeast homes with graffiti over three blocks (Photo courtesy Metropolitan Police Department)
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SENATOR KIRSTEN GILLIBRAND (D-NEW YORK) -Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, arrives for a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2013. She is joining supporters of her proposal to let military prosecutors rather than commanders make decisions on whether to prosecute sexual assaults in the armed forces. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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Minutes after the Senate voted to arm and train moderate Syrian rebels in the fight against the Islamic State militant group, the administration signaled that it is poised to expand its air campaign into Syria, opening a new geographic front in the war on terrorism. President Obama said, "These terrorists thought they could fight us, or intimidate us, or cause us to shrink from the world, but today they're learning the same hard lesson of petty tyrants and terrorists who've gone before." (Associated Press)
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President Barack Obama gestures during a statement in the State Dining Room of the White House, on Thursday, Sept. 18, 2014, in Washington. Obama spoke after Congress voted to arm and train moderate Syrian rebels in the fight against the Islamic State group. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
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In a reenactment of the Battle of Lexington, the beginning of the American Revolution, British soldiers are called back by their officers, as they run back to their lines and past the dead and wounded, Monday, April 21, 2014, in Lexington, Mass. (AP Photo/The Metro West Daily News, Ann Ringwood)
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In a reenactment of the Battle of Lexington, the beginning of the American Revolution, British soldiers are called back by their officers, as they run back to their lines and past the dead and wounded, Monday, April 21, 2014, in Lexington, Mass. (AP Photo/The Metro West Daily News, Ann Ringwood)
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In this Monday, Sept. 1, 2014, file photo, an Israeli soldier observes Syria's Quneitra province at an observation point on Mount Bental in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights, overlooking the border with Syria. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner, File)
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National Edition News cover for September 18, 2014 - House OKs training, arms for Syria rebels: President Barack Obama speaks to service men and women at MacDill Air Force Base Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2014 in Tampa, Fla. The president arrived in Tampa on Tuesday evening and met with Centcom commander Gen. Lloyd Austin III and other leaders at MacDill, including members of the Centcom international coalition. (AP Photo/The Tampa Tribune, Chris Urso, Pool)
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FILE - In this undated file photo posted on Monday, June 30, 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 from extremist Islamic State group parade in Raqqa, Syria. In staging airstrikes against Islamic State extremists in Syria, the U.S. may find itself in a confounding morass teeming with jihadis, rebel rivalries and sectarian hatred. (AP Photo/Raqqa Media Center of the Islamic State group, File)
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Illustration on challenges building a coalition against ISLAMIC STATE by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times
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Illustration on challenges building a coalition against ISLAMIC STATE by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times
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In Monrovia, Liberia, a man reads a newspaper headlining President Barack Obama's plan to send 3,000 U.S. troops to West Africa to help contain the deadly Ebola virus. (AP Photo/Abbas Dulleh)
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South Korean army soldiers patrol through the military wire fences with hanging South Korean national flags at the Imjingak Pavilion near the border village of Panmunjom, which has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, South Korea, Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2014. South Korean border guards arrested an American man who they believe was attempting to swim across a river into rival North Korea, a South Korean defense official said Wednesday. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
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Members of the protest group Code Pink hold anti-war signs as Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Martin Dempsey testify on Islamic State militants in front of the Senate Armed Services Committee. Gen. Dempsey opened the door to the possibility that U.S. combat troops would be needed in Iraq. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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architects: Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin E. Dempsey remain in the process of continuing to shape Obama administration activities to rout the Islamic State terrorist group. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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Gen. Lloyd J. Austin III (left), commander of the U.S. Central Command, had wanted to be more aggressive in using ground troops in Iraq but did not win his superiors' or the White House's OK. (Associated Press)
