Tag: Iraq

In this Wednesday, June 4, 2014 photo, Marty Mascio of Pembroke Pines, Fla., selects a grade of gasoline as he fills up his car at a Chevron station in Pembroke Pines. Violence in Iraq is pushing U.S. gasoline prices higher during a time of year they usually decline. The national average price of $3.67 per gallon is the highest price for this time of year since 2008, the year gasoline hit its all-time high. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

Turmoil in Iraq is pushing up US gasoline prices

Jonathan Fahey · June 19, 2014 6:52 pm

President Obama announced plans to send a team of U.S. military advisers to Iraq to try help the country's security forces beat back an al Qaeda-inspired insurgency gaining ground across large swaths of the country. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

National Security

Obama: U.S. will send small team of military advisers to Iraq

Susan Crabtree · June 19, 2014 6:37 pm

House Minority Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., speaks at her weekly press conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, April 10th, 2014. (Examiner File/Graeme Jennings)

National Security

Nancy Pelosi: U.S. shouldn’t work with Iran

Sean Lengell · June 19, 2014 5:52 pm

Obama: ‘Iran Can Play a Constructive Role’ in Iraq

Michael Warren · June 19, 2014 5:03 pm

Obama on Iraq: No American Combat Troops

Michael Warren · June 19, 2014 4:55 pm

For one thing, the stupendously disagreeable Iraqi prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, insisted on having criminal jurisdiction over American forces in Iraq. Rather than negotiate, Obama did what he had already promised to do. He called American forces home. (AP Photo)

President Obama leading from behind

R. Emmett Tyrrell · June 19, 2014 3:15 pm

Shiite tribal fighters raise their weapons and chant slogans against the al-Qaida-inspired Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant in Basra, Iraq, Monday. (AP/Nabil Al-Jurani)

Slaughter in Iraq — George W. Bush’s fault?

Larry Elder · June 19, 2014 2:52 pm

National Security

Iraq crisis stirs fears Afghanistan could be next

Donna Cassata · June 19, 2014 2:28 pm

FILE - In this Wednesday, June 18, 2014, file photo, Secretary of State John Kerry gives the keynote address at the 2014 World Food Prize Laureate Announcement Ceremony, at the State Department in Washington. Kerry brushed aside criticism of Obama administration Middle East policy Thursday, June 19, 2014, taking exception to assertions Washington has been too passive in the face of surging terrorism in the region. (AP Photo/Molly Riley, File)

Kerry denies Obama has been too passive in Iraq

Washington Examiner · June 19, 2014 12:44 pm

Time for a Dose of Reality

Kevin Nicholson · June 19, 2014 12:35 pm

National Security

VIDEO: Military advisers headed to Iraq, Obama confirms

Steve Doty · June 19, 2014 4:00 am

President Barack Obama meets with, from left, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif., and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nev., in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, June 18, 2014. Obama briefed leaders of Congress on US options for blunting an Islamic insurgency in Iraq. US officials say Obama is not yet prepared to move forward with strikes and is instead focused on increased training for Iraq's security forces, boosting Iraqi intelligence capacities and upgrading equipment. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

National Security

GOP leader: Obama may act in Iraq without signoff

JULIE PACEDONNA CASSATA · June 19, 2014 12:10 am