Tag: Iraq

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Ticking Down to Zero Hour

Geoffrey Norman · July 3, 2014 7:47 pm

VIDEO — Poll: Voters oppose sending troops to Iraq

Ed Sykes · July 3, 2014 4:03 pm

Anxiety over the turmoil in Iraq disrupting oil output is easing as Iraqi forces push back against the Sunni extremist insurgency, but long-term fears remain that the instability could cause painful aftershocks -- especially if it scares off multinational oil companies that had begun investing in the war-torn country after years of holding back. (iStock Image)

Energy and Environment

Iraq’s oil potential goes untapped

Susan Crabtree · July 3, 2014 3:00 pm

In this photo taken on Tuesday, July 1, 2014 an Iraqi woman inspects her damaged house after clashes between fighters of the al-Qaida-inspired Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant and Iraqi security forces in central Tikrit, 80 miles (130 kilometers) north of Baghdad, Iraq. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant announced this week that it has unilaterally established a caliphate in the areas under its control. It declared the group's leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the head of its new self-styled state governed by Shariah law and demanded that all Muslims pledge allegiance to him. (AP Photo)

National Security

Militants try to tighten their grip in Iraq, Syria

RYAN LUCASZEINA KARAM · July 2, 2014 9:41 pm

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Energy and Environment

America’s response to Iraq should begin with approving Keystone XL

Rep. Devin Nunes · July 2, 2014 5:00 pm

Bombs bursting in air: America’s airpower advantage, 1944-2014

Austin Bay · July 2, 2014 3:01 pm

A Russian fighter jet arrives at al-Muthanna air base in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, July 1, 2014. Iraq is increasingly turning to other governments like Iran, Russia and Syria to help beat back a rampant insurgency because it cannot wait for additional American military aid, Baghdad's top envoy to the U.S. said Tuesday.(AP Photo)

National Security

Envoy says Iraq can’t wait for US military aid

LARA JAKESROBERT BURNS · July 1, 2014 11:12 pm

A black flag used by the al-Qaida inspired Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) waves over the celebrations square in the northern city of Mosul, Iraq, Tuesday, July 1, 2014. The militant extremist group's unilateral declaration of an Islamic state is threatening to undermine its already-tenuous alliance with other Sunnis who helped it overrun much of northern and western Iraq. (AP Photo)

Militant urges Muslims to build Islamic state

Ryan Lucas · July 1, 2014 10:10 pm

In this picture taken on Monday, June 30, 2014, a Kurdish Peshmerga fighter cleans his weapon on his position behind a dirt barrier built along the front line with militants from the al-Qaida-inspired Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), in Mariam Bek village, between the northern cities of Tikrit and Kirkuk, Iraq. Demonstrating their growing independence from the rest of Iraq, the largely-autonomous Kurdish regional government is setting up dirt barriers that they hope will ultimately set the borders of their future state. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Iraqi Kurds dig frontier around disputed areas

Diaa Hadid · July 1, 2014 8:07 pm

President Obama announced 200 new armed American personnel were being sent to protect American interests in the fray. (AP Photo)

Beltway Confidential

Did President Obama keep his ‘not sending U.S. troops back into combat in Iraq’ promise?

Spencer Brown · July 1, 2014 7:07 pm

You can consider the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria a terrorist organization, but you can also consider it a particularly murderous and oppressive state. Which is it? (AP PHoto)

First Gulf War in 1991 was America’s opening Iraq mistake

Gene Healy · June 30, 2014 5:00 pm

Islamic state declaration could lead to schism

RYAN LUCASSAMEER N. YACOUB · June 30, 2014 4:57 pm