Tag: ISIS

President Barack Obama speaks during a meeting with more than 20 foreign defense ministers on the ongoing operations against the Islamic State group, Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2014, at Andrews Air Force Base, Md. Obama and military chiefs in a show of strength against Islamic State fighters in Iraq and Syria. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

National Security

Turkish strikes on Kurds complicate anti-IS fight

JULIE PACESUZAN FRASER · October 14, 2014 10:40 pm

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, left, and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov talk as they walk together on the grounds of the Chief of Mission Residence in Paris, France, Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2014. The top U.S. and Russian diplomats are hoping to find a way to begin reversing a yearlong spike in tensions stemming from Ukraine's revolution and civil war. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, Pool)

National Security

US, Russia vow intel-sharing on Islamic State

Bradley Klapper · October 14, 2014 10:35 pm

FILE - In this Saturday, Oct. 11, 2014 file photo, Kurdish Rabia Ali, right, accompanied by her son Ali Mehmud, mourn at the grave of her son Seydo Mehmud 'Curo' , a Kurdish fighter, who was killed in the fighting with the militants of the Islamic State group in Kobani, Syria, and was buried at a cemetery in Suruc, Turkey. No one contests that the U.S.-led coalition has conducted more than 40 airstrikes against the militants besieging Kobani, nor that Turkey has granted refuge to more than 200,000 people who have flooded across the border to escape the offensive. But Kurds say that both countries - and the international community in general - should be doing more to help save Kobani from the fanatical militants who have massacred and beheaded their enemies across Syria and Iraq. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis, File)

National Security

Syrian Kurds feel abandoned as Kobani battle rages

Ryan Lucas · October 14, 2014 9:52 pm

Obama: ‘Setbacks’ coming in fight against Islamic State

National Security

Obama: ‘Setbacks’ coming in fight against Islamic State

Brian Hughes · October 14, 2014 9:10 pm

President Barack Obama meets with members of his public health and national security team about the response to the diagnosis of a second Ebola case in Dallas, Texas, Monday, Oct. 13, 2014, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

National Security

Obama to meet with allies on militant fight

Julie Pace · October 14, 2014 5:13 pm

US-led coalition steps up strikes in Syria

National Security

US-led coalition steps up strikes in Syria

Washington Examiner · October 14, 2014 5:05 pm

Is the U.S. Losing in Iraq?

Is the U.S. Losing in Iraq?

Geoffrey Norman · October 14, 2014 1:02 pm

Sen. Marco Rubio called on Turkey to play a greater role in the U.S.-led effort against the Islamic State, saying it has a responsibility "as a member of NATO" to give safe haven to refugees fleeing battle-torn northern Syria. (AP/Molly Riley)

National Security

Rubio: Turkey must give Kurds safe haven

Sean Lengell · October 13, 2014 7:21 pm

Mainstream Media Scream: View’s Rosie O’Donnell calls Jimmy Carter ‘my favorite’

Washington Secrets

Mainstream Media Scream: View’s Rosie O’Donnell calls Jimmy Carter ‘my favorite’

Paul Bedard · October 13, 2014 6:45 pm

"We have to have a national security debate," Army Chief of Staff Gen. Raymond Odierno said at the Association of the U.S. Army annual conference in Washington. (AP/Jacquelyn Martin)

National Security

How many ground troops? Army leaders want renewed debate

Charles Hoskinson · October 13, 2014 6:34 pm

Kerry Uses Arab Name ‘Daesh’ to Refer to Islamic State

Jeryl Bier · October 13, 2014 10:14 am

Sandstorm

Reuel Marc Gerecht · October 13, 2014 4:00 am