Tag: Iraq

Refugees fleeing Mosul head to the self-ruled northern Kurdish region in Irbil, Iraq, 217 miles north of Baghdad, on Thursday. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, the al Qaeda breakaway group, on Monday and Tuesday took over much of Mosul in Iraq and then swept into the city of Tikrit further south. An estimated half a million residents fled Mosul, an economically important city. (AP Photo)

Beltway Confidential

Obama administration seeks funding for Iraq to fix situation made by ending the war

Ashe Schow · June 12, 2014 5:47 pm

President Obama speaks during a Tumblr forum in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday. (AP/Jacquelyn Martin)

National Security

Obama not ruling out airstrikes in Iraq

Brian Hughes · June 12, 2014 5:45 pm

President Obama speaks during a Tumblr forum in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday. (AP/Jacquelyn Martin)

Beltway Confidential

Obama claims the ‘world is less violent’ than ever as Iraq, Ukraine crumble

Ashe Schow · June 12, 2014 4:31 pm

Obama in 2009: ‘We Will Begin to Responsibly Leave Iraq to Its People’

Jeryl Bier · June 12, 2014 4:29 pm

Biden Once Called Iraq One of Obama’s ‘Great Achievements’

Biden Once Called Iraq One of Obama’s ‘Great Achievements’

Daniel Halper · June 12, 2014 1:42 pm

Iraqi security forces in uniforms and plainclothes head to Baghdad in the main road between Baghdad and Mosul, a day after fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant took control of much of Mosul. Al Qaeda-inspired militants seized effective control Wednesday of Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit, expanding their offensive closer to the Iraqi capital as soldiers and security forces abandoned their posts following clashes with the insurgents. (AP Photo)

Beltway Confidential

Revenge beheadings have begun in Iraq as Islamic terrorist forces press toward Baghdad; Obama rejects pleas for U.S. air strikes

Mark Tapscott · June 12, 2014 1:35 pm

FILE - This Sept. 11, 2013 file photo shows oil pumps the desert oil fields of Sakhir, Bahrain. Dramatic changes in oil production around the globe, both higher and lower, are balancing each other out instead of wreaking havoc. This has helped world oil prices stay high enough to provide OPEC countries with robust income, but not so high that they scare customers away from buying more of their precious product. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali, File)

Oil jumps to above $106 on Iraq violence

Pablo Gorondi · June 12, 2014 1:27 pm

National Security

US eyes new aid to Iraq to curb insurgent march

Lara Jakes · June 12, 2014 5:11 am

WH Pledges To ‘Increase’ Assistance To Iraq ‘As Required’

WH Pledges To ‘Increase’ Assistance To Iraq ‘As Required’

Daniel Halper · June 12, 2014 1:19 am

Former Blackwater Worldwide guard Nicholas Slatten enters a taxi cab as he leaves federal court in Washington, Wednesday, June 11, 2014, after the start of his first-degree murder trial. Slatten and three other Blackwater Worldwide guards are on trial for the killing of 14 Iraqi civilians and the wounding of 18 others in bloodshed that inflamed anti-American sentiment around the globe. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

National Security

Blackwater guards face trial in Iraq shootings

Pete Yost · June 11, 2014 10:40 pm

War Clouds Over Iraq and Ukraine

War Clouds Over Iraq and Ukraine

Geoffrey Norman · June 11, 2014 9:33 pm

Shiite pilgrims beat themselves as a sign of grief outside the holy Shiite shrine of Imam Moussa al-Kadhim, in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, May 24. (AP Photo/ Karim Kadim)

Did al Qaeda win the Iraq war?

Terence Jeffrey · June 11, 2014 3:11 pm