Tag: ISIS

FILE - In this Thursday, March 26, 2015 file photo, an Iraqi military helicopter attacks Islamic State group positions during clashes in Tikrit, 130 kilometers (80 miles) north of Baghdad, Iraq. Iraqi troops started the final phase of an offensive to recapture Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit on Thursday, a military official said, just hours after the United States launched airstrikes on the Islamic State held city. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed, File)

National Security

Pentagon denies killing two Iranians during Tikrit airstrikes

Tara Copp · March 30, 2015 7:00 pm

House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy of Calif. answers a question during a House GOP leadership news conference, Tuesday, March 24, 2015, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke)

Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy visits site of deadly terrorist attack in Tunisia

Susan Ferrechio · March 30, 2015 4:35 pm

Boehner said in a statement that Jordan plays a key role in stabilizing the Middle East and stopping the spread of Islamic State terrorism. (AP Photo)Â

Boehner, GOP delegation meet with king of Jordan

Susan Ferrechio · March 30, 2015 3:27 pm

National Security

Bashar Assad: Even with airstrikes, Islamic State has expanded

Kelly Cohen · March 30, 2015 11:50 am

Assad: Americans Sugarcoating ISIS

Daniel Halper · March 29, 2015 11:17 pm

Arab League Secretary-General Nabil al-Arabi, right, and Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shukri leave a press conference at the conclusion of an Arab summit meeting in Sharm el-Sheikh, South Sinai, Egypt, Sunday, March 29, 2015. (AP Photo/Thomas Hartwell)

National Security

Arab nations agree to form unified military to combat common threats

Ethan Barton · March 29, 2015 8:26 pm

Smoke rises from central Tikrit as Iraqi security forces attack Islamic State extremist positions in Tikrit, 130 kilometers (80 miles) north of Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, March 28, 2015. Â (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

National Security

18 airstrikes hit Islamic State targets

Ethan Barton · March 28, 2015 8:35 pm

Shiite rebels, known as Houthis, hold up their weapons to protest against Saudi-led airstrikes, during a rally in Sanaa, Yemen, Thursday, March 26, 2015. Saudi Arabia bombed key military installations in Yemen on Thursday, leading a regional coalition in a campaign against Shiite rebels who have taken over much of the country and drove out the president. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)

National Security

Yemen exposes weakness of Obama’s Mideast policy

Charles Hoskinson · March 28, 2015 9:00 am

U.S. and coalition aircrafts have hit Islamic State targets in Tikrit about 20 times in the last two days. (AP Photo)Â

National Security

Iraqis return to fight in Tikrit

Tara Copp · March 27, 2015 5:15 pm

A Kurdish peshmerga fighter stands next to a firearm in Mahmoudiyah, Iraq, where fighters took control of it from the Islamic State group. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

National Security

Bill seeks direct arms shipments to Kurds

Charles Hoskinson · March 27, 2015 1:24 pm

In retrospect, Obama probably should have recognized that cooperation was unlikely, given that the Houthi's slogan contains the phrase "death to America." (AP)

National Security

Obama can’t maintain his Middle East balancing act

Washington Examiner · March 27, 2015 9:00 am

The leaflet shows potential recruits lining up at the "Daesh Recruiting Office," which leads to a bloodied meat grinder also labeled "Daesh." (AP Photo)

National Security

U.S. leaflets warn would-be Islamic State fighters of the ‘meat grinder’

Tara Copp · March 26, 2015 6:29 pm