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The fall of al-Qardabiya air base came after hundreds of Islamic State militants had already captured the entire surrounding city of Sirte, Libya. (AP Photo)

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Pentagon silent on ISIS gains in Libya

Tara Copp · May 30, 2015 4:01 am

U.S. Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Steve Baluyot of the Biological Defense Research Directorate Naval Medical Research Center in Bethesda, Md. (Getty File Photo)

Defense Department: More labs affected by anthrax than previously reported

Tara Copp · May 29, 2015 11:27 pm

In this Saturday, Feb. 21, 2015 photo, Libyan soldiers try to fix a weapon that jammed during clashes with militants on the frontline in Al Ajaylat, 120 kilometers (75 miles) west of Tripoli, Libya. (AP Photo)

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ISIS affiliate takes control of Libyan airport

Tara Copp · May 29, 2015 3:26 pm

A Shia militia sniper from Abo al Fadhel al Abbas provides cover for Iraqi Army troops as they assault Islamic State fighters on the frontline April 14, 2015 near Al-Karmah, in Anbar Province, Iraq. (Getty Image)

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U.S. seeks ways to arm Sunnis in ISIS fight

Tara Copp · May 28, 2015 6:51 pm

(Photo Credit: CDC, via Wikimedia Commons)

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Pentagon, CDC search for answers after anthrax foul-up

Tara Copp · May 28, 2015 5:08 pm

Islamic State group militants stand with a captured Iraqi army Humvee at a checkpoint outside Beiji refinery, some 155 miles north of Baghdad, Iraq. (AP Photo, File)

Beiji city: Islamic State’s next big conquest?

Tara Copp · May 28, 2015 4:01 am

The samples were supposed to have been inert for medical training but were discovered to potentially be live samples.Â

22 military personnel in South Korea possibly exposed to anthrax

Tara Copp · May 28, 2015 2:54 am

A volunteer from the Badr Brigade militia fires on ISIS fighters from the frontline on April 11, 2015 in Ebrahim Ben Ali, in Anbar Province, Iraq. (Getty Image)

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ISIS placing bombs, digging in for Ramadi fight

Tara Copp · May 27, 2015 7:02 pm

Iraqi anti-terrorism soldiers guard a graduation ceremony of Sunni tribal volunteers joining Iraqi security forces in the town of Amiriyat al-Fallujah, west of Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, May 8, 2015. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

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U.S. aids Iraqi counterstrike against Islamic State

Tara Copp · May 26, 2015 8:33 pm

A sailor aboard the USS Wasp Â signals to the pilot of an F-35B Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter to land as it arrives for the first phase of operational testing, May 18, 2015.Â (U.S. Marine Corps photo/Lance Cpl. Remington Hall)

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F-35 jump jet inches closer to fleet debut

Tara Copp · May 26, 2015 9:00 am

World War II veteran Air Vice-Marshall William "Paddy" Harbison, hold his Royal Air Force (RAF) log book while attending an Arsenal of Democracy Flyover press briefing at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum on Tuesday, March 31. 2015. Harbison flew the P-51 Mustang, the Supermarine Spitfire, and later flew combat missions in Korea. (Graeme Jennings/WEX)

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Inside old log book, memories of heroism

Tara Copp · May 25, 2015 9:00 am

A U.S. Army trainer, instructs Iraqi Army recruits at a military base on April 12, 2015 in Taji, Iraq. U.S. forces, currently operating in 5 large bases throught the country, are training thousands of Iraqi Army combat troops, trying to rebuild a force they had originally trained before the U.S. withdrawal from Iraq in 2010. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)

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Iraqis were relieved U.S. came to help re-train army

Tara Copp · May 21, 2015 9:46 pm