Tag: ISIS

High Stakes Offensive

Geoffrey Norman · May 28, 2015 2:44 pm

Islamic State group militants stand with a captured Iraqi army Humvee at a checkpoint outside Beiji refinery, some 155 miles north of Baghdad, Iraq. (AP Photo, File)

Beiji city: Islamic State’s next big conquest?

Tara Copp · May 28, 2015 4:01 am

A volunteer from the Badr Brigade militia fires on ISIS fighters from the frontline on April 11, 2015 in Ebrahim Ben Ali, in Anbar Province, Iraq. (Getty Image)

National Security

ISIS placing bombs, digging in for Ramadi fight

Tara Copp · May 27, 2015 7:02 pm

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal accused Rand Paul of "taking the weakest, most liberal Democrat position" on the Islamic State, more suited to "Washington cocktail parties" than the White House. (AP Photo)Â

Beltway Confidential

Jindal: Paul takes ‘weakest, most liberal’ stance on ISIS

David Freddoso · May 27, 2015 6:34 pm

Jindal may become one of Paul's rivals for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination. (AP Photo)

Jindal: Rand Paul ‘unsuited to be commander in chief’

Ariel Cohen · May 27, 2015 6:01 pm

Paul said that even though most of the country agrees with him, he is seen as out of step with the Republican party because he is "asking difficult questions." (Getty Image)

Rand Paul: ‘ISIS exists because of the hawks in’ GOP

Barbara Boland · May 27, 2015 4:21 pm

Smoke rises behind archaeological ruins in Palmyra, Syria. The video released by a media arm of the Islamic State group purportedly showed the archaeological ruins of Palmyra apparently undamaged. (Militant video via AP)

National Security

ISIS hasn’t destroyed Palmyra yet, artifacts chief says

David Brown · May 27, 2015 2:09 pm

Rand Says Republicans ‘Created’ ISIS

Michael Warren · May 27, 2015 10:52 am

Iraqi anti-terrorism soldiers guard a graduation ceremony of Sunni tribal volunteers joining Iraqi security forces in the town of Amiriyat al-Fallujah, west of Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, May 8, 2015. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

National Security

U.S. aids Iraqi counterstrike against Islamic State

Tara Copp · May 26, 2015 8:33 pm

Podcast: On ISIS, Iran is the Arsonist Pretending to be the Fireman

TWS Podcast · May 26, 2015 7:15 pm

Return to Ramadi?

Geoffrey Norman, Michael Fumento · May 26, 2015 3:47 pm

This undated file image posted on a militant website on Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2014, which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting, shows fighters from the al-Qaida linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), now called the Islamic State group, marching in Raqqa, Syria. (Militant Website via AP, File)

National Security

Where terrorists get their money from

Charles Hoskinson · May 26, 2015 12:29 pm