Tag: Iraq

Obama to host UN summit on foreign fighters threat

Obama to host UN summit on foreign fighters threat

Edith Lederer · August 18, 2014 10:07 pm

Iraq Shiite fighters make their way to the front line to fight militants from the extremist Islamic State group in Jurf al-Sakhar, 43 miles (70 kilometers) south of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Aug 18, 2014. Fighters of the voluntary armed group formed after the radical Shiite cleric Muqtatda al-Sadr called to protect holy shrines against possible attacks by Sunni militants. (AP Photo/ Hadi MIzban))

Obama: Iraq forces retake Mosul Dam from militants

VIVIAN SALAMADIAA HADID · August 18, 2014 10:06 pm

Obama calls on new Iraqi leader to unite country

Ed Sykes · August 18, 2014 9:28 pm

President Obama speaks in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House on Monday. (AP/Charles Dharapak)

National Security

Obama on Ferguson: ‘Gulf of mistrust’ between cops and community

Brian Hughes · August 18, 2014 9:01 pm

Monday meme: Taking care of business

Beltway Confidential

Monday meme: Taking care of business

Ashe Schow · August 18, 2014 6:30 pm

This undated image posted by the Raqqa Media Center, a Syrian opposition group, on Monday, June 30, 2014, shows fighters from the al-Qaida linked Islamic State during a parade in Raqqa, Syria. (AP Photo/Raqqa Media Center)

State Department labels Islamic State spokesman a ‘terrorist’

Susan Crabtree · August 18, 2014 3:59 pm

An Iraqi internally displaced Yazidi child receives a polio vaccine at the town of Khanke, outside Dahuk, 260 miles (430 kilometers) northwest of Baghdad on Sunday, Aug. 17, 2014. The Yazidis are a centuries-old religious minority viewed as apostates by the Islamic State group, which has claimed mass killings of its opponents in Syria and Iraq. Tens of thousands of Yazidis fled earlier this month when the Islamic State group captured the town of Sinjar, near the Syrian border. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

UN undertakes polio vaccination campaign in Iraq

Washington Examiner · August 18, 2014 2:41 pm

President Obama walks with his daughter Malia as he arrives on the South Lawn of the White House on Monday. Obama is taking a break in the middle of his Martha's Vineyard vacation to return to Washington for meetings with Vice President Joe Biden and other advisers on the U.S. military campaign in Iraq and tensions between police and protesters in Ferguson, Mo. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Morning Examiner with Steve Doty for Aug. 18

Steve Doty · August 18, 2014 11:54 am

‘Action Is Elusive’

William Kristol · August 18, 2014 4:00 am

New US strikes in Iraq include land-based bombers

New US strikes in Iraq include land-based bombers

Washington Examiner · August 17, 2014 9:15 pm

Kurdish forces, known as peshmerga, stand guard near Mosul Dam at the town of Chamibarakat outside Mosul, Iraq, Sunday, Aug. 17, 2014. Kurdish forces took over parts of the largest dam in Iraq on Sunday less than two weeks after it was captured by the Islamic State extremist group, Kurdish security officials said, as U.S. and Iraqi planes aided their advance by bombing militant targets near the facility. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

Kurdish forces retake parts of Iraq’s largest dam

Diaa Hadid · August 17, 2014 7:29 pm

In an interview with ABC's Martha Raddatz Sunday, Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, D-Hawaii, criticized President Obama's response to the threat posed by the Islamic State. (AP Photo/Marco Garcia)

National Security

Rep. Tulsi Gabbard calls U.S. counterterrorism mission ‘lost’

Susan Crabtree · August 17, 2014 5:01 pm