Tag: Iraq

In this Tuesday, June 17, 2014 image taken from video obtained from British Broadcaster Sky, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, Kurdish soliders aim their weapons towards positions held by fighters of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant near Jalula, Iraq. Kurdish security forces are engaged in gun battles with Sunni militants in the northern Iraqi town of Jalula, according to British Broadcaster Sky. Footage showed Kurdish fighters known as peshmerga using heavy artillery and rockets to attack militant positions on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Sky via AP video)

Iraq’s al-Maliki extends overtures to rivals

Hamza Hendawi · June 18, 2014 11:07 pm

Happy Hour Links: ‘What We Know Now and What We Knew Then’

Daniel Halper · June 18, 2014 11:01 pm

President Obama's approval rating has slipped considerably in states where elections in November could decide who controls the U.S. Senate. (AP Photo)

Obama tells Congress he can act on Iraq on his own

Susan Ferrechio · June 18, 2014 11:00 pm

Gulf nations struggle with Iraq militant blowback

AYA BATRAWYMATTHEW LEE · June 18, 2014 10:11 pm

This undated file Image posted on a militant website on Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2014 shows fighters from the al Qaeda-linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) marching in Raqqa, Syria. (AP Photo/Militant Website, File)

Iraq is broken, we can’t fix it and there’s no good reason to try

Jed Babbin · June 18, 2014 9:00 pm

President Obama's approval rating has slipped considerably in states where elections in November could decide who controls the U.S. Senate. (AP Photo)

America’s enemies are emboldened by Obama’s reluctance to use its power

Cal Thomas · June 18, 2014 9:00 pm

Obama Consults Iraq War Architects on Iraq

Daniel Halper · June 18, 2014 8:00 pm

In a Wall Street Journal op-ed (co-written with daughter Liz Cheney), the former vice president simply does not take into account the Bush administration's failures in Iraq. Reciting President Obama's own failures, Cheney writes: "Rarely has a U.S. president been so wrong about so much at the expense of so many." (AP Photo)

Beltway Confidential

What should Iraq war advocates say about the current crisis?

Byron York · June 18, 2014 4:28 pm

President George H.W. Bush gestures during a news conference at the White House briefing room in Washington, Tuesday, April 17, 1991. (AP Photo/Marcy Nighswander)

No intervention in Iraqi civil war without congressional authorization

Terence Jeffrey · June 18, 2014 2:52 pm

Shiite tribal fighters carry a poster of Shiite spiritual leader Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, as they raise their weapons chanting slogans against the al-Qaida-inspired Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant in Basra, Iraq's second-largest city. (AP/Nabil Al-Jurani)

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant’s media foray

Austin Bay · June 18, 2014 2:41 pm

German Chancellor Angela Merkel points to select a journalist for questions during a news conference with Tunisian Prime Minister Mehdi Jomaa after a meeting at the chancellery in Berlin, Wednesday, June 18, 2014. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Merkel sees US ‘special responsibility’ in Iraq

Washington Examiner · June 18, 2014 1:59 pm

President Obama's approval rating has slipped considerably in states where elections in November could decide who controls the U.S. Senate. (AP Photo)

Beltway Confidential

Poll watch: Hispanics help drive President Obama’s approval rating to a fresh low

Becket Adams · June 18, 2014 1:45 pm