Tag: Iraq

In December 2011, President Obama said: "We're leaving behind a sovereign, stable and self-reliant Iraq with a representative government that was elected by its people. We're building a new partnership between our nations. And we are ending a war, not with a final battle, but with a final march toward home. This is an extraordinary achievement, nearly nine years in the making." (AP Photo)

Questions for President Obama

Mona Charen · June 20, 2014 4:54 pm

Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with Khanty-Mansiysk Governor Natalya Komarova in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Friday, June 20, 2014. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Alexei Nikolsky, Presidential Press Service)

Putin speaks to Iraqi PM, expresses support

Washington Examiner · June 20, 2014 4:23 pm

President Barack Obama speaks to members of the media about the situation in Iraq, Thursday, June 19, 2014, in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington. In the strongest sign yet of U.S. doubts about Iraq's stability, the Obama administration is weighing whether to press the Shiite prime minister in Baghdad to step down in a last-ditch effort to prevent disgruntled Sunnis from igniting a full-scale civil war. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

National Security

5 facts about the new U.S. mission in Iraq

Susan Crabtree · June 20, 2014 12:55 pm

Kurdish security forces prepare combat positions while a Kurdish flag flies outside the oil-rich city of Kirkuk, 180 miles (290 kilometers) north of Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, June 19, 2014. As Sunni insurgents swept over a large chunk of northern Iraq and barreled toward Baghdad the past two weeks, Kurdish fighters known as peshmerga seized territory of their own, effectively expanding the Kurdish-run region into areas it has long claimed for itself. Most notably, they grabbed the oil center of Kirkuk. And in contrast to the Shiite-led government in Baghdad, which is in turmoil, the Kurds are growing more confident, vowing to increase oil sales independent of the central government. (AP Photo)

Kurds emerge as winners in Iraq chaos

DIAA HADIDEMAD MATTI · June 20, 2014 12:36 pm

National Security

Military advisers also fight, history tells us

Calvin Woodward · June 20, 2014 7:49 am

Oil near 9-month high as Iraq battles for refinery

Oil near 9-month high as Iraq battles for refinery

Washington Examiner · June 20, 2014 7:22 am

FILE - This Dec. 3, 2011 file photo shows Iraq's Shiite Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki talks during an interview with The Associated Press in Baghdad, Iraq. The prospect of the U.S. military returning to the fight in Iraq has turned congressional hawks into doves. Lawmakers who eagerly voted to authorize military force 12 years ago to oust Saddam Hussein and destroy weapons of mass destruction that were never found now harbor doubts that air strikes will turn back insurgents threatening Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's government and Baghdad. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban, File)

Iraq: al-Maliki’s rivals jockey to replace him

HAMZA HENDAWIQASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA · June 19, 2014 10:54 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/Jacquelyn Martin)

Back to Iraq: Obama sending military advisers

JULIE PACEHAMZA HENDAWI · June 19, 2014 10:50 pm

Podcast: Obama’s Iraq

TWS Podcast · June 19, 2014 7:45 pm

Oil: Here & There

Oil: Here & There

Geoffrey Norman · June 19, 2014 7:31 pm

Americans believe U.S. global prestige has worsened under President Obama. AP Photo

Poll: 55% say America’s global Image worse under Obama-Clinton

Paul Bedard · June 19, 2014 7:21 pm

VIDEO: Iran could leverage Iraqi unrest in nuclear talks

Ed Sykes · June 19, 2014 7:06 pm