Tag: Iraq

Support Grows for Sending Troops Against ISIS

Support Grows for Sending Troops Against ISIS

Geoffrey Norman · March 6, 2015 6:31 pm

Disregard That Last

Disregard That Last

Geoffrey Norman · March 4, 2015 3:47 pm

Generals: Iran’s influence in Iraq growing

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Generals: Iran’s influence in Iraq growing

Tara Copp · March 4, 2015 10:00 am

Thick smoke from an airstrike by the US-led coalition rises in Kobani, Syria. The Islamic State group may be sprouting tentacles across the region but it is struggling in Syria, part of its heartland, where it has stalled or even lost ground in fighting with multiple enemies on multiple fronts. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis, File)

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U.S. airstrikes have killed 8,500 Islamic State fighters — CENTCOM

Tara Copp · March 3, 2015 4:16 pm

Obama’s ISIS Strategy Empowers Iran

Derek Harvey · March 3, 2015 3:00 pm

Offensive in Iraq

Geoffrey Norman · March 2, 2015 6:32 pm

Iraqi Hezbollah fighters carry the coffin of their comrade, Ali Mansour, who his family says was killed in Tikrit fighting Islamic militants, during his funeral procession, in the city of Najaf, 100 miles) south of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, March 2, 2015. (AP Photo/Jaber al-Helo)

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Iraq did not request U.S. support for Tikrit offensive

Tara Copp · March 2, 2015 5:27 pm

In this Sunday, April 13, 2003 file photo, a statue of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is seen as the streets are nearly deserted in central Tikrit, Iraq. Backed by allied Shiite and Sunni fighters, Iraqi security forces on Monday began a large-scale military operation to recapture Saddam Hussein's hometown from the Islamic State extremist group, state TV said, a major step in a campaign to reclaim a large swath of territory in northern Iraq controlled by the militants. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer, File)

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Pentagon: Iraqi offensive to retake Tikrit conducted without US assets

Tara Copp · March 2, 2015 3:58 pm

"[W]hen the final accounting is done, 2014 will have been the most lethal year for global terrorism in the 45 years such data has been compiled," said National Intelligence Director James Clapper.

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Iraqis won’t be ready for Islamic State fight by spring: Intel officials

Tara Copp · February 27, 2015 12:01 am

Would Jeb fear starting a ‘third Bush war’? Answer is no

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Would Jeb fear starting a ‘third Bush war’? Answer is no

Byron York · February 26, 2015 12:19 am

U.S. military starts from scratch to train Iraqis

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U.S. military starts from scratch to train Iraqis

Tara Copp · February 25, 2015 10:00 am

The Islamic State group may be sprouting tentacles across the region but it is struggling in Syria, part of its heartland, where it has stalled or even lost ground in fighting with multiple enemies on multiple fronts. (AP Photo/Raqqa Media Center of the Islamic State group, File)

U.S. enemies are better off now than they were six years ago

Noemie Emery · February 24, 2015 10:03 am