Tag: ISIS

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This Christmas, don’t forget the persecuted

Washington Examiner · December 25, 2014 10:00 am

In this Thursday, Dec. 18, 2014 photo, bodies of Islamic State militants killed during fighting on Wednesday, when Kurdish forces pushed towards Sinjar Mountain, lie in a ditch in Koban, Iraq, Thursday, Dec. 18, 2014. Iraqi Kurdish forces battling Islamic State militants managed on Thursday to open up a corridor to the mountain so that thousands of people from the country's Yazidi minority who have been trapped there can flee, said a senior Kurdish official. (AP Photo/Dalton Bennett)

National Security

Islamic State did not shoot down plane, but is holding Jordanian pilot captive, U.S. says

Susan Crabtree · December 24, 2014 9:38 pm

Video: U.S. Airstrike on ISIS in Iraq

Daniel Halper · December 23, 2014 3:31 pm

ISIS Works to ‘Excise Women from Public Life’

Geoffrey Norman · December 23, 2014 12:49 pm

Enemy Contact?

Geoffrey Norman · December 18, 2014 6:33 pm

A Pakistani girl who was injured in a Taliban attack on a school, is rushed to a hospital in Peshawar, Pakistan. (AP/Mohammad Sajjad)

Innocents and innocence massacred

Washington Examiner · December 17, 2014 10:00 am

File photo of Iraqi security forces near Baghdad, Iraq. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

Obama’s Syria strategy near collapse?

Charles Hoskinson · December 13, 2014 5:00 pm

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News group ‘unmasked’ man behind ‘most influential’ pro-Islamic State tweeter

Becket Adams · December 13, 2014 10:00 am

The Capitol Dome and the Capitol Christmas Tree are illuminated late Thursday evening as Congress works to pass a $1.1 trillion U.S. government-wide spending bill and avoid a government shutdown, in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 11, 2014. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Energy and Environment

Congress passes defense policy bill

Sean Lengell · December 12, 2014 11:21 pm

Secretary of State John Kerry, center, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on "Authorization for the Use of Military Force Against IS." Committee Chairman Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., listens at left, and the committee's ranking member Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., listen at right. (AP Photo/Molly Riley)

National Security

White House presses for more ‘flexibility’ to fight ISIS

Susan Crabtree · December 12, 2014 6:26 pm

Secretary of State John Kerry, center, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on "Authorization for the Use of Military Force Against IS." Committee Chairman Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., listens at left, and the committee's ranking member Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., listen at right. (AP Photo/Molly Riley)

National Security

Senators wary of granting administration broad authority to fight the Islamic State

Sean Lengell · December 10, 2014 12:14 am

John Kerry: Coalition fighting Islamic State making a ‘big difference’

Sean Lengell · December 9, 2014 9:22 pm