Tag: Iraq

In this photo taken on June 17, 2014, people shop at a market in Baghdad, Iraq. While the Iraqi capital is not under any immediate threat of falling to the Sunni militants who have captured a wide swath of the country's north and west, battlefield setbacks and the conflict's growing sectarian slant is turning this city of 7 million into an anxiety-filled place waiting for disaster to happen. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)

Iraq’s capital lives in fear, expects the worst

Hamza Hendawi · June 23, 2014 6:40 am

Iraqi Shiite Turkmen gunmen gather as they prepare to patrol around the village of Taza Khormato in the northern oil rich province of Kirkuk, in this picture taken Friday, June 20, 2014. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Al Qaeda is back in Iraq because President Obama and Hillary Clinton chose not to block them

Hugh Hewitt · June 22, 2014 10:43 pm

Iraqi Shiites say driven from homes in Sunni area

DIAA HADIDEMAD MATTI · June 22, 2014 7:54 pm

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry speaks during a joint news conference with Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry following his meeting with Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, Sunday, June 22, 2014, in Cairo, Egypt. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

John Kerry: Insurgency in Iraq threatens entire Mideast

Lara Jakes · June 22, 2014 6:15 pm

President Barack Obama speaks about the situation in Iraq, Thursday, June 19, 2014, in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington. Obama said the US will send up to 300 military advisers to Iraq, set up joint operation centers. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Obama: Threat from Iraq militants could grow

Washington Examiner · June 22, 2014 2:21 pm

This photo taken Saturday, June 21, 2014, shows demonstrators protesting outside of the White House in Washington against renewed U.S. involvement in Iraq. In charting a new phase of American military engagement in Iraq on Thursday, President Barack Obama pledged that his war-weary country will not be "dragged back" into a lengthy conflict or become ensnarled in "mission creep." But recent U.S. military history is full of warning signs about the difficulty of keeping even a limited mission from expanding and extending. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

National Security

Obama’s test: Try to avoid ‘mission creep’ in Iraq

Julie Pace · June 22, 2014 1:44 pm

Volunteers of the newly formed "Peace Brigades" participate in a parade in the Shiite stronghold of Sadr City, Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, June 21, 2014. The armed group was formed after radical Shiite cleric Muqtatda al-Sadr called to form brigades to protect Shiite holy shrines against possible attacks by Sunni militants. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

Sunni fighters expand offensive in western Iraq

HAMZA HENDAWISAMEER N. YACOUB · June 21, 2014 10:35 pm

FILE - In this May 1, 2006, file photo, then-Sen. Joseph Biden, D-Del., left, speaks with former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, after he gave a speech proposing that Iraq be divided into three separate regions during the World Affairs Council of Philadelphia conference in Philadelphia. As Iraq edges toward chaos, Vice President Joe Biden is having a quiet I-told-you-so moment. As a senator in 2006, Biden proposed that Iraq be divided into three semi-independent regions for Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds. And he said that his plan would allow U.S. troops to be out by early 2008. Otherwise, he warned, Iraq could fall into sectarian conflict that could destabilize the region. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Iraq crisis offers hint of vindication for Biden

Josh Lederman · June 21, 2014 5:08 pm

Will Iraq Make Obama Re-Think Afghanistan Policy?

Will Iraq Make Obama Re-Think Afghanistan Policy?

Daniel Halper · June 21, 2014 4:21 pm

Zogby Report Card: Obama juggles Iraq, Iran alright, but IRS scandal ‘stinks’

Washington Secrets

Zogby Report Card: Obama juggles Iraq, Iran alright, but IRS scandal ‘stinks’

Paul Bedard · June 21, 2014 10:00 am

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Beltway Confidential

Naming the Islamist militants in the news: ISIS or ISIL?

Charles Hoskinson · June 20, 2014 7:51 pm

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Has American fracking doomed Iraq?

Arthur Herman · June 20, 2014 6:47 pm