Tag: Iraq

Car bombs kill 51 in Baghdad Shiite neighborhoods

Car bombs kill 51 in Baghdad Shiite neighborhoods

SAMEER N. YACOUBSINAN SALAHEDDIN · August 6, 2014 7:26 pm

Dubai’s Emirates halting flights to northern Iraq

Dubai’s Emirates halting flights to northern Iraq

Adam Schreck · August 5, 2014 3:17 pm

This image made from video taken on Sunday, Aug. 3, 2014 shows Iraqis people from the Yazidi community arriving in Irbil in northern Iraq after Islamic militants attacked the towns of Sinjar and Zunmar. Around 40 thousand people crossed the bridge of Shela in Fishkhabur into the Northern Kurdish Region of Iraq, after being given an ultimatum by Islamic militants to either convert to Islam, pay a security tax, leave their homes, or die. (AP Photo via AP video)

Iraq air force to back Kurds fighting Islamists

BRAM JANSSENSAMEER N. YACOUB · August 4, 2014 10:46 pm

FILE - This Oct. 31, 2007 file photo, shows a general view of the dam in Mosul, 360 kilometers (225 miles) northwest of Baghdad, Iraq. The rapid advance of the Islamic State group, which captured Iraq's second largest city of Mosul and declared a self-styled Islamic Caliphate straddling the Iraq-Syria border, has plunged Iraq into its worst crisis since U.S. troops withdrew in 2011. Experts say the strategy for capturing the dams is twofold. First, seizing dams and large reservoirs can be used as a military tactic. Flooding the terrain slows any possible encounters with military tanks and foot soldiers, giving the militants freedom of movement, if briefly. (AP Photo/ Khalid Mohammed, File)

Sunni militants target Iraq’s two biggest dams

VIVIAN SALAMAQASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA · August 4, 2014 5:23 pm

A New Disorder

Stephen F. Hayes · August 4, 2014 4:00 am

A Bad Deal

Daniel Halper · August 4, 2014 4:00 am

Sunni insurgents seize small towns in Iraq’s north

Sunni insurgents seize small towns in Iraq’s north

Bram Janssen · August 3, 2014 10:22 pm

An Israeli army officer walks near a Merkava tank as it advances towards the Israel Gaza border Gaza Strip, Friday, Aug. 1, 2014. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

Beltway Confidential

Actions speak louder than words: Gaza residents trust Israel

Michael Barone · August 3, 2014 1:58 pm

Supporters of Iraqi Hezbollah brigades march in military uniforms with a portrait of Iran's supreme late Iranian leader Ayatollah Khomeini in Baghdad, Iraq, during a parade marking Quds Day. (AP/Hadi Mizban)

Obama driving American foreign policy off a cliff

Mona Charen · August 1, 2014 3:29 pm

Iraq’s top Shiite cleric urges peaceful transition

Iraq’s top Shiite cleric urges peaceful transition

Washington Examiner · August 1, 2014 12:35 pm

Since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the U.S. and its allies have made great strides to stem the flow of money to terrorist organizations. And their enemies have responded by diversifying their portfolios.ÃÂ (iStock Image)

Beltway Confidential

As banks crack down, terrorists update their fundraising tactics

Blake Seitz · July 31, 2014 6:40 pm

Supporters listen as Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, center, speaks during a rally to mark Jerusalem Day or Al-Quds Day, in suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, July 25, 2014. Nasrallah said that the "resistance" in Gaza became victorious after the Zionists and all their backers worldwide failed in achieving any of their goals. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Lebanese Hezbollah commander killed in Iraq

Bassem Mroue · July 31, 2014 1:44 pm