Tag: Iraq

Needs more hashtag: State Department announces expansion of social media campaign against terrorism

Beltway Confidential

Needs more hashtag: State Department announces expansion of social media campaign against terrorism

Blake Seitz · June 26, 2014 8:36 pm

Jordanian Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh, right, US Secretary of State John Kerry, center, and Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal walk to a meeting at the US Chief of Mission Residence in Paris, France. US Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Paris on June 26, 2014 after stops in Baghdad, Arbil and Brussels to brief his Saudi, French and Israeli counterparts on his talks in Iraq and discuss the bloody three-year war in Syria. (AP Photo/Brendan Smialowski, pool)

US, Sunni states meet on Mideast insurgent crisis

Lara Jakes · June 26, 2014 5:58 pm

In this photo taken Monday, June 23, 2014, fighters of the al-Qaida-inspired Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) parade in a commandeered Iraqi security forces vehicle down a main road at the northern city of Mosul, Iraq, more than two weeks after ISIL took over the country's second largest city. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry warned Mideast nations on Wednesday against taking new military action in Iraq that might heighten already-tense sectarian divisions, as reports surfaced that Syria launched airstrikes across the border and Iran has been flying surveillance drones over the neighboring country. (AP Photo)

Analysis: Iraq producing unusual Mideast dynamic

Matthew Lee · June 26, 2014 5:51 pm

Real war on women: Two prominent female activists have been killed this week

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Real war on women: Two prominent female activists have been killed this week

Ashe Schow · June 26, 2014 5:49 pm

U.S. paratroopers dash across clearing to helicopters that will lift them out of this section of jungle in War Zone C in Vietnam in March 1967 and drop them in another to continue their pursuit of the Viet Cong along the Cambodian border.

Iraq and the echoes of Vietnam

Steve Chapman · June 26, 2014 3:06 pm

FILE - In this May 19, 2007, file photo, a portion of the new U.S. embassy under construction is seen from across the Tigris river in Baghdad. In 2014, by contrast, CIA officers have been largely hunkered down in their heavily fortified Baghdad compound since U.S. troops left the country in 2011, current and former officials say, allowing a once-rich network of intelligence sources to wither. (AP Photo)

National Security

Officials say Iraq pullout hurt US spying

Ken Dilanian · June 26, 2014 7:24 am

Global oil under $114 as Iraq supply worries ease

Global oil under $114 as Iraq supply worries ease

The Associated Press · June 26, 2014 5:07 am

Kurdish peshmerga fighters clean their weapons at a base on the closet front line with militants from the al-Qaida-inspired Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), in Tuz Khormato, 100 kilometers (62 miles) south of the oil rich province of Kirkuk, northern Iraq, Wednesday, June 25, 2014. A defiant Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki rejected calls Wednesday for an interim "national salvation government" intended to undermine the Sunni insurgency by presenting a unified front among Iraq's three main groups, calling it a "coup against the constitution." (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Kerry issues warning after Syria bombs Iraq

HAMZA HENDAWILARA JAKES · June 25, 2014 10:50 pm

FILE - In this Oct. 6, 2010, file photo, an armed Sunni militiaman wearing an Iraqi Army patch, left, and a U.S. Army soldier patrol in Samarra, 60 miles (95 kilometers) north of Baghdad, Iraq. The man is part of Samarra's Sahwa _ Arabic for Awakening, or commonly known as the Sons of Iraq, who are former Sunni insurgents now allied with U.S. and Iraqi security forces to provide security. The Obama administration is reaching back to an Iraq War program as a guide to keep disgruntled Sunnis from joining a rampant new insurgency. U.S. officials hope to persuade Sunni militiamen known as Sahwa, or Awakening Councils, to fight back against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant as they did nearly 10 years ago against al-Qaida. The Awakening Councils sided with U.S. troops and were a pivotal force in defeating al-Qaida during the war. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

National Security

In Iraq, former militia program eyed for new fight

LARA JAKESSAMEER N. YACOUB · June 25, 2014 7:49 pm

Iraqi civilians inspect the aftermath of a car bombing in the southeastern district of New Baghdad, Iraq. (AP/Khalid Mohammed)

10 reasons why Iraq’s bloodbath is not George W. Bush’s fault

Larry Elder · June 25, 2014 7:21 pm

House intel chief: Obama’s blunder in Iraq threatens U.S. security

National Security

House intel chief: Obama’s blunder in Iraq threatens U.S. security

Paul Bedard · June 25, 2014 4:06 pm

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki meets with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry in Baghdad, Monday. (AP/Brendan Smialowski)

National Security

Iraq’s Nouri al-Maliki tightens grip on power for now

Susan Crabtree · June 25, 2014 1:22 pm