Tag: Iraq War

National Security

ISIS’ brutality ups the pressure on Obama in Iraq and Syria

Susan Crabtree · August 21, 2014 9:00 am

President Obama speaks in Edgartown, Mass., Wednesday, about the killing of American journalist James Foley by militants with the extremist group ISIS. The president said the US will continue to confront ISIS extremists despite the brutal murder of Foley. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Tough words won’t substitute for action, Mr. President: Examiner Editorial

Washington Examiner · August 20, 2014 9:00 pm

Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., told MSNBC's Chris Hayes Tuesday night that the execution of an American journalist and the victimizing of women and children shows that the Islamic State is the "personification of evil." (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty images,)

Key Democrat: Islamic State forcing U.S. hand in Iraq

Susan Crabtree · August 20, 2014 6:18 pm

Police stand watch as demonstrators protest the shooting death of teenager Michael Brown on August 13, 2014 in Ferguson, Mo. (Getty images / Scott Olson)

Iraq, Ferguson, and the ‘libertarian moment’

Timothy P. Carney · August 16, 2014 9:00 pm

U.S. Army soldiers stand in formation as they prepare to leave Iraq on December 8, 2011 at Camp Virginia, near Kuwait City, Kuwait. (Photo by Joe Raedle / Getty Images)

Obama: The Iraq ‘bug out’ was not my idea

Larry Elder · August 14, 2014 10:10 pm

A video smuggled out of Syria shows the brutality of Islamic extremists. (Courtesy Image via YouTube)

National Security

A way forward to end the evil incarnate of the Islamic State in Iraq: Examiner Editorial

Washington Examiner · August 11, 2014 11:10 pm

‘Mission Shrink’

Michael Warren · August 11, 2014 1:03 pm

President Obama speaks on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Saturday, about ongoing situation in Iraq before his departure on Marine One for a vacation in Martha's Vineyard. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

National Security

Obama: U.S. airstrikes in Iraq will continue for ‘some time’

Susan Crabtree · August 9, 2014 4:49 pm

President Barack Obama listens during a phone call with Jordan's King Abdullah II Jordan, according to the White House, Friday, Aug. 8, 2014, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Obama: US won’t be dragged into another Iraq war

Washington Examiner · August 9, 2014 10:07 am

President Obama has announced his authorization for two targeted air strikes in Iraq. (AP Photo)

Morning Examiner with Steve Doty for Aug. 8

Steve Doty · August 8, 2014 12:01 pm

People inspect the destroyed old Mosque of The Prophet Jirjis in central Mosul, Iraq, Sunday, July 27, 2014. The revered Muslim shrine was destroyed by militants who overran the city in June and imposed their harsh interpretation of Islamic law. (AP Photo)

Seriously? Obama asks Congress to repeal 2002 War in Iraq: Examiner Editorial

Washington Examiner · July 27, 2014 9:00 pm

Then-Capt. Doug Zembiec gives orders to his men over a radio prior to leaving their secured compound for a short patrol in Fallujah, Iraq, in 2004. (AP/U.S. Marine Corps. via The Albuquerque Journal, Sgt. Jose E. Guillen)

Beltway Confidential

Heroic Marine, nicknamed ‘Lion of Fallujah,’ finally honored for CIA service

Blake Seitz · July 16, 2014 5:05 pm