Tag: Iraq

Obama plans to cut U.S. presence in Afghanistan

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Obama plans to cut U.S. presence in Afghanistan

Susan Crabtree · May 27, 2014 8:02 pm

Iraq: Suicide attack kills at least 17 in Baghdad

Iraq: Suicide attack kills at least 17 in Baghdad

Sinan Salaheddin · May 27, 2014 12:47 pm

Iraqi security forces conduct body checks on Shiite pilgrims as they march to the shrine of Imam Moussa al-Kadhim in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, May 24, 2014. Shiite pilgrims are expected to converge on the shrine in northern Baghdad during their annual march to commemorate the eighth-century death of Imam Moussa al-Kadhim, a key Shiite saint. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

Car bomb at liquor store in northern Iraq kills 12

Washington Examiner · May 25, 2014 7:38 am

FILE - In this May 31, 2009 file photo, an employee works at the Tawke oil fields in the semiautonomous Kurdish region in northern Iraq. Iraq's self-ruled northern Kurdish region said Friday, May 23, 2014, that it has made its first oil shipment through its own pipeline to the international market, bypassing the central government in Baghdad, which insists that it has the sole right to develop and market the country's natural resources. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban, File)

Iraqi Kurds ship oil through region’s own pipeline

Sinan Salaheddin · May 23, 2014 3:33 pm

Nancy Pelosi blames George W. Bush for Veterans Affairs scandal

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Nancy Pelosi blames George W. Bush for Veterans Affairs scandal

Joel Gehrke · May 22, 2014 6:09 pm

Amid growing Veterans Affairs scandal, why Eric Shinseki is hard to fire

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Amid growing Veterans Affairs scandal, why Eric Shinseki is hard to fire

Byron York · May 21, 2014 4:46 pm

After almost 13 years, it’s time to end Congress’ blanket authorization of force

Gene Healy · May 20, 2014 2:20 am

Iraqi PM’s bloc wins most parliamentary seats

SINAN SALAHEDDINSAMEER N. YACOUB · May 19, 2014 6:30 pm

Officials say attacks across Iraq kill 14

Officials say attacks across Iraq kill 14

Sameer Yacoub · May 18, 2014 6:02 pm

Mourners chant slogans against the al-Qaida breakaway group Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), while carrying a flag-draped coffin of Ahmed Marzouk an Iraqi officer who was killed, said his family, in a fake checkpoint on Thursday, during his funeral procession in the Shiite holy city of Najaf, 100 miles (160 kilometers) south of Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, May 16, 2014. Bombings and shootings around Iraq's capital, including a deadly attack involving militants using a fake checkpoint to target army officers, killed and wounded dozens of people on Thursday, officials said. (AP Photo/ Jaber al-Helo)

Bombing north of capital kills 5 people in Iraq

Sameer Yacoub · May 17, 2014 11:02 am

Command Sgt. Maj. Martin R. Barreras, a recipient of three Purple Hearts who helped rescue Jessica Lynch at the beginning of the post-9/11 wars, died May 13 in San Antonio Military Medical Center after suffering injuries in Harat Province, Afghanistan on May 6. (Photo: Thinkstock)

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Soldier who rescued Jessica Lynch in Iraq in 2003 killed in Afghanistan combat

Spencer Brown · May 17, 2014 4:00 am

Mourners chant slogans against the al-Qaida breakaway group Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), while carrying a flag-draped coffin of Ahmed Marzouk an Iraqi officer who was killed, said his family, in a fake checkpoint on Thursday, during his funeral procession in the Shiite holy city of Najaf, 100 miles (160 kilometers) south of Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, May 16, 2014. Bombings and shootings around Iraq's capital, including a deadly attack involving militants using a fake checkpoint to target army officers, killed and wounded dozens of people on Thursday, officials said. (AP Photo/ Jaber al-Helo)

Attacks targeting soldiers, militia kill 7 in Iraq

Sameer Yacoub · May 16, 2014 5:23 pm