Tag: Iraq

The Truth About Iraq

liz-cheney, dick-cheney · July 21, 2014 4:00 am

In this Saturday, July 19, 2014 photo, displaced Christians who fled the violence in Mosul, pray at Mar Aframa church in the town of Qaraqoush on the outskirts of Mosul. Iraq was home to an estimated 1 million Christians before the 2003 U.S.-led invasion that ousted Saddam Hussein. Since then, militants have frequently targeted Christians across the country, bombing their churches and killing clergymen. Under such pressures, many Christians have left the country. Church officials now put the community at around 450,000. (AP Photo)

Iraqi PM condemns jihadis’ targeting of Christians

SAMEER N. YACOUBSINAN SALAHEDDIN · July 20, 2014 7:33 pm

President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev shake hands as they leave the Hofdi in Reykjavik after their third session of talks in Reykjavik, Oct. 12, 1986. (AP Photo/Bob Daugherty)

Obama is crushing the Ronald Reagan link, and Vladimir Putin knows it

Lawrence Kudlow · July 20, 2014 5:28 pm

Pope expresses concern for Iraqi Christians

Pope expresses concern for Iraqi Christians

Washington Examiner · July 20, 2014 11:19 am

Iraqi Shiite fighters with the "Peace Brigades" patrol in Samarra, Iraq.ÃÂ (AP Photo/File)

Iraq’s crisis requires a political solution

Mike Coffman · July 20, 2014 10:00 am

FILE - In this Friday, June 27, 2014, file photo, an Iraqi nun, second from left, speaks with a Christian man who fled with his family from the Christian villages near Mosul, Iraq, at a school that was turned into a shelter for displaced Christian families, in Ainkawa, a suburb of Irbil, Iraq. The Islamic State group gave Mosul's Christians until midday Saturday, July 19, 2014, to convert to Islam, pay a tax or face death. The vast majority of Christians fled. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)

Under threat, Iraq’s Christians flee city of Mosul

Washington Examiner · July 19, 2014 7:22 pm

In Iraq, Syria, militants try to govern as a state

In Iraq, Syria, militants try to govern as a state

ZEINA KARAMBASSEM MROUE · July 18, 2014 6:19 pm

Civilians inspect the site of a bomb attack in Shorja Market in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, July 17, 2014. A bomb hidden in a wooden cart exploded near a Shiite mosque in one of Baghdad's largest markets, killing and wounding civilians. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

UN: Some 5,500 civilians killed in Iraq this year

Washington Examiner · July 18, 2014 10:52 am

President Obama has never faced this many international crises at once. And it's never been so obvious that he lacks the silver bullet to fix them. (AP/Jacquelyn Martin)

Why perceptions of Obama’s foreign policies may never turn around

Brian Hughes · July 18, 2014 10:00 am

National Security

Iranian commanders on front line of Iraq’s fight

Washington Examiner · July 17, 2014 6:19 pm

Iraqi civilians gather the morning after a car bombing that killed many people and wounded tens of others in a crowded outdoor market in the Shiite neighborhood known as Sadr City, Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)

Beltway Confidential

5 places where Obama hasn’t improved the ‘tranquility of the global community’

Blake Seitz · July 17, 2014 10:00 am

Then-Capt. Doug Zembiec gives orders to his men over a radio prior to leaving their secured compound for a short patrol in Fallujah, Iraq, in 2004. (AP/U.S. Marine Corps. via The Albuquerque Journal, Sgt. Jose E. Guillen)

Beltway Confidential

Heroic Marine, nicknamed ‘Lion of Fallujah,’ finally honored for CIA service

Blake Seitz · July 16, 2014 5:05 pm