Tag: Iraq

"I didn't want to go there in the first place, but now we take the oil. We should have kept the oil, now we go in, we knock the hell out of them, take their oil. We thereby take their wealth," Trump said in an interview with "Fox and Friends." (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

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Trump on Islamic State: ‘Knock the hell out of them’

Jacqueline Klimas · August 11, 2015 4:44 pm

Six F-16s, support equipment and about 300 personnel arrived at Incirlik Air Base on Sunday following an agreement for U.S. assets to fly anti-ISIS missions out of the Turkish base. (AP Photo)Â

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F-16s to start flying from Turkey in ‘matter of days’

Jacqueline Klimas · August 10, 2015 4:36 pm

The Guns of August 1990

Vance Serchuk · August 10, 2015 4:00 am

Consistently Wrong

Max Boot · August 10, 2015 4:00 am

A U.S. Navy F-18E Super Hornet supporting operations against the militant Islamic State group, leaves after receiving fuel from a KC-135 Stratotanker over Iraq. (AP Photo/U.S. Air Force, Shawn Nickel, File)

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Boehner slams Obama’s ISIS strategy on one-year anniversary of airstikes

Daniel Chaitin · August 8, 2015 6:57 pm

Umm Sayyaf, a suspected member of the Islamic State, was transferred to the custody of Iraq on Thursday after being questioned and detained for months by U.S. officials. (AP Photo)Â

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Wife of killed ISIS leader transferred to Iraq

Jacqueline Klimas · August 6, 2015 10:51 pm

It's getting worse every day in Iraq, mostly as a result of the seriously flawed policies of the Bush and Obama administrations. (AP Photo)Â

Our failed Iraq policy: Dumb, dumber and dumbest

Daniel Gallington · August 5, 2015 4:01 am

ISIS Is Thinking Big

ISIS Is Thinking Big

Geoffrey Norman · July 31, 2015 7:24 pm

A U.S. Air Force plane takes off from the Incirlik airbase, in southern Turkey.Â "In my opinion this is not the same fight as it was when it started," Marine Brig. Gen. Kevin Killea told reporters at the Pentagon.

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General: Fight against ISIS no ‘strategic stalemate’

Charles Hoskinson · July 31, 2015 6:21 pm

After billions of dollars spent and more than 10,000 extremist fighters killed, the Islamic State group is fundamentally no weaker than it was when the U.S.-led bombing campaign began a year ago, American intelligence agencies have concluded. (U.S. Central Command via AP)

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Intel agencies: U.S. strikes not weakening ISIS

Kelly Cohen · July 31, 2015 1:56 pm

It's possible that President Obama will finish out his term pretending that his military strategy is working and no change is necessary. (AP Photo)

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Living in strategic denial

Mark Moyar · July 30, 2015 4:01 am

A United States Navy plane approaches to land at the Incirlik Air Base, in Adana, in the outskirts of the city of Adana, southeastern Turkey, Tuesday, July 28, 2015. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)

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U.S., Turkey agree to create ISIS-free safe haven

Susan Crabtree · July 28, 2015 8:44 pm