Tag: Iraq

Good News: Everything Just Got More Expensive

Good News: Everything Just Got More Expensive

Geoffrey Norman · June 17, 2014 5:19 pm

Beltway Confidential

You may have heard that a Heritage Foundation panel reportedly ‘taunted’ a Muslim student: Watch the video and decide for yourself

Becket Adams · June 17, 2014 4:33 pm

‘A Plan to Save Iraq From ISIS and Iran’

‘A Plan to Save Iraq From ISIS and Iran’

Daniel Halper · June 17, 2014 2:44 pm

Iraqi federal policemen watch as Shiite tribal fighters deploy with their weapons in the northwest Baghdad's Shula neighborhood, Iraq, Monday, June 16, 2014. Sunni militants captured a key northern Iraqi town along the highway to Syria early on Monday, compounding the woes of Iraq's Shiite-led government a week after it lost a vast swath of territory to the insurgents in the country's north. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)

UN panel: Syria, Iraq edging into regional war

John Heilprin · June 17, 2014 2:38 pm

Shiite tribal fighters raise their weapons and chant slogans against the al-Qaida-inspired Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in the northwest Baghdad's Shula neighborhood, Iraq, Monday, June 16, 2014. Sunni militants captured a key northern Iraqi town along the highway to Syria early on Monday, compounding the woes of Iraq's Shiite-led government a week after it lost a vast swath of territory to the insurgents in the country's north. (AP Photo/ Karim Kadim)

Oil prices slip as US deploys small force to Iraq

Pablo Gorondi · June 17, 2014 2:31 pm

Hangover Blues

Noemie Emery · June 17, 2014 2:01 pm

Poll: 74 percent oppose U.S. troops in Iraq, prefer supplies, intel

Washington Secrets

Poll: 74 percent oppose U.S. troops in Iraq, prefer supplies, intel

Paul Bedard · June 17, 2014 1:16 pm

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon addresses the audience during the celebration of the 50. anniversary of the establishment of the UNCTAD (United Nations Conference on Trade and Development), at the European headquarters of the United Nations, in Geneva, Switzerland, Tuesday, June 17, 2014. (AP Photo/Keystone,Salvatore Di Nolfi)

UN chief warns of massive sectarian Iraq violence

John Heilprin · June 17, 2014 11:29 am

Secretary of State John Kerry addresses the Our Ocean conference, Monday, June 16, 2014, at the State Department in Washington. The Obama administration is willing to talk with Iran over deteriorating security conditions in Iraq and is not ruling out potential U.S.-Iranian military cooperation in stemming the advance of Sunni extremists, Kerry said Monday. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke)

National Security

More US troops to Iraq; special forces considered

JULIE PACELARA JAKES · June 17, 2014 1:08 am

Iraqi army soldiers stand guard at Tahrir Square in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, June 16, 2014. Sunni militants captured a key northern Iraqi town along the highway to Syria early on Monday, compounding the woes of Iraq's Shiite-led government a week after it lost a vast swath of territory to the insurgents in the country's north. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

Iran’s general in Iraq, militants seize key city

HAMZA HENDAWIQASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA · June 16, 2014 11:06 pm

Demonstrators chant pro-al-Qaida-inspired Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant as they carry al Qaeda flags in front of the provincial government headquarters in Mosul, 225 miles northwest of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday. (AP Photo)

We need a policy to fight Islamic extremism that works

Cal Thomas · June 16, 2014 8:43 pm

People hold posters showing Iran's spiritual leaders Ayatollah Khomeini, while Iraqi Shiite fighters deploy with their weapons in Basra, Iraq's second-largest city, 340 miles southeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday. (AP/Nabil Al-Jurani)

Beltway Confidential

If fighting in Iraq isn’t a ‘military challenge,’ why is Iran sending its Revolutionary Guard?

Spencer Brown · June 16, 2014 8:16 pm