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A woman kisses her son outside the Mar Tshmony church in Erbil, Iraq, where 500 Christian families took refuge after an ISIS advance into Kurdish territory, mainly Qaraqosh, the “Christian capital of Iraq.” (Photo by Vianney Le Caer / Pacific Press/Sipa USA)
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In this image made through a window of the Oval Office, President Obama speaks on the phone to Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah from his desk at the White House ahead of his address to the nation tonight regarding Iraq and Islamic State group militants. (Associated Press)
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In this image made through a window of the Oval Office, President Barack Obama speaks on the phone to Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah from his desk at the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2014, ahead of his address to the nation tonight regarding Iraq and Islamic State group militants. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
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FILE - In this Thursday, Nov. 30, 2006 file photo, U.S. President George W. Bush speaks during a joint press conference with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki in Amman, Jordan. Ibrahim Hooper, spokesman for the Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations, says the Islamic State group's ascension in Iraq could have been prevented if the U.S. had insisted on a nonsectarian Iraqi government, rather than the one led by the recently replaced al-Maliki that favored Shiite Muslims over the Sunnis. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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Police in riot gear work to disperse protesters in Ferguson, Missouri. Federal agencies acknowledged they don't track how the automatic weapons and armored trucks are used by police, the Defense and Homeland Security departments testified to Congress. (Associated Press)
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In urging action to counter the Islamic State persecution of Middle Eastern Christians, Bechara Boutros Rai of Lebanon emphasizes that religious freedom is a universal right. (associated press)
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'Living historians" dressed as U.S. Colored Troops hold their firearms during a recent Civil War battle re-enactment.
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Historical re-eneactors fire a Napoleon cannon during the 150th anniversary of the Battle of the Crater recently at Petersburg, Virginia, National Battlefield. "Living historians." resembling Civil War scholars. dramatically re-enact and educate. (Associated Press Photographs)
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This undated photo provided by the U.S. Army shows Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl. (AP Photo/U.S. Army) ** FILE **
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Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky. holds his hands over his head in the manner of protesters during the recent unrest in Ferguson, Mo., as he questions witnesses during a Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing on federal programs that equip state and local police with military equipment, Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2014, on Capitol Hill in Washington. The issue of local police using armored vehicles and other military equipment gained nationwide attention during violent conflicts between law enforcement in Ferguson and protesters upset about the fatal police shooting of an unarmed 18-year-old. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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“The REAL Benghazi Story” hits bookstore shelves Tuesday, just in time for the two-year anniversary of the terrorist attack on a U.S. diplomatic post in Libya. Author Aaron Klein explains how the Obama administration “cannot be trusted with U.S. national security.”
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White House press secretary Josh Earnest gestures during his daily news briefing at the White House in Washington, Monday, Sept. 8, 2014. Earnest answered questions about President Obama's upcoming speech on confronting Islamic State militants. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
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Gloves and rubber boots forming part of the Ebola prevention gear for health workers at a clinic are set outside for the sun to dry them after being washed in Monrovia, Liberia, Monday, Sept. 8, 2014. Border closures, flight bans and mass quarantines are creating a sense of siege in the West African countries affected by Ebola, officials at an emergency African Union meeting said Monday, as Senegal agreed to allow humanitarian aid pass through its closed borders. (AP Photo/Abbas Dulleh)
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Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko pauses as he attends a news conference in the southern coastal town of Mariupol, Ukraine, Monday, Sept. 8, 2014. Poroshenko made a surprise trip Monday to a key city in southeastern Ukraine as a cease-fire between Russian-backed rebels and Ukrainian troops appeared to be largely holding. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)
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Sen. Bill Nelson, Florida Democrat, is hammering out a legislative proposal to authorize U.S. military strikes on Islamic State targets within Syria. (associated press)
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Members of the U.S. military present the American flag before the first half of an NFL football game between the Dallas Cowboys and the San Francisco 49ers, Sunday, Sept. 7, 2014, in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/Tim Sharp)
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"We don't have a strategy yet" toward the Islamic State, President Obama told White House reporters on Sept. 4, 6 days before a national address announcing his military plans to combat the terrorist group. (AP Photo/Jon Super)
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This photo taken July 23, 2013, show the U.S. Capitol in Washington. Congress returns to work this week with a relatively short and simple agenda, vote to keep the government operating in the short term, then return home to campaign. National security threats from Islamic State militants and Russian aggression in Ukraine loom large, but September's session may be too short for lawmakers to do anything but talk about them. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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FILE - In this Sept. 5, 2014, file photo U.S. President Barack Obama looks around during a flypast at the NATO summit in Newport, Wales. Obama will begin this week to lay out a strategy to defeat Islamic State militants in the Middle East, starting with a White House meeting with bipartisan congressional leaders on Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2014 and a speech on Wednesday, the eve of the 13th anniversary of the deadliest terrorist attack on U.S. soil. (AP Photo/Jon Super, File)
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FILE - In this Aug. 28, 2014 file photo, President Barack Obama speaks in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, before convening a meeting with his national security team on the militant threat in Syria and Iraq. The U.S. and its allies are trying to hammer out a coalition to push back the Islamic State group in Iraq. But any serious attempt to destroy the militants or even seriously degrade their capabilities means targeting their infrastructure in Syria. That, however, is far more complicated. If it launches airstrikes against the group in Syria, the U.S. runs the risk of unintentionally strengthening the hand of President Bashar Assad, whose removal the West has actively sought the past three years. Uprooting the Islamic State, which has seized swaths of territory in both Syria and Iraq, would potentially open the way for the Syrian army to fill the vacuum. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
