Tag: ISIS

FILE - In this Friday, May 27, 2011, file photo, journalist James Foley responds to questions during an interview with The Associated Press, in Boston. A video by Islamic State militants that purports to show the killing of Foley by the militant group was released Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2014. Foley, from Rochester, N.H., went missing in 2012 in northern Syria while on assignment for Agence France-Press and the Boston-based media company GlobalPost. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)

National Security

British fighter appears to have role in beheading

DANICA KIRKAJILL LAWLESS · August 20, 2014 12:28 pm

An F/A-18C Hornet takes off for Iraq from the flight deck of the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush on Sunday, Aug. 10, 2014 in the Persian Gulf. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali)

National Security

Obama faces difficult decisions as airstrikes continue in Iraq

Susan Crabtree · August 20, 2014 9:00 am

AP sources: Video appears to show execution of US journalist James Foley by Islamic group

AP sources: Video appears to show execution of US journalist James Foley by Islamic group

Washington Examiner · August 20, 2014 1:56 am

IS Threatens Another U.S. Journalist

Lee Smith · August 19, 2014 10:27 pm

An Appalling Propaganda Ploy

Thomas Joscelyn · August 19, 2014 10:14 pm

One Cheer for Pope Francis

Lee Smith · August 19, 2014 8:33 pm

Top Saudi cleric: Islamic State is Islam’s enemy

Top Saudi cleric: Islamic State is Islam’s enemy

Washington Examiner · August 19, 2014 8:17 pm

Activists: Jihadi killed near Syria-Lebanon border

Activists: Jihadi killed near Syria-Lebanon border

Washington Examiner · August 19, 2014 1:06 pm

President Barack Obama pauses as he speaks in the James Brady Press Briefing Room in the White House in Washington, Monday, Aug. 18, 2014. Taking a two-day break from summer vacation, Obama met with top advisers at the White House to review developments in Iraq and in racially charged Ferguson, Mo., two trouble spots where Obama has ordered his administration to intervene. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

National Security

Obama: Iraq has regained control of Mosul dam

Robert Burns · August 18, 2014 11:11 pm

Pope Francis speaks to the media during an airborne press conference on his journey back to Rome from Seoul, South Korea, Monday, Aug. 18, 2014. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Beltway Confidential

The people who ‘explain the news’ look like they don’t actually read the news

Becket Adams · August 18, 2014 10:45 pm

Iraq Shiite fighters make their way to the front line to fight militants from the extremist Islamic State group in Jurf al-Sakhar, 43 miles (70 kilometers) south of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Aug 18, 2014. Fighters of the voluntary armed group formed after the radical Shiite cleric Muqtatda al-Sadr called to protect holy shrines against possible attacks by Sunni militants. (AP Photo/ Hadi MIzban))

Obama: Iraq forces retake Mosul Dam from militants

VIVIAN SALAMADIAA HADID · August 18, 2014 10:06 pm

Obama calls on new Iraqi leader to unite country

Ed Sykes · August 18, 2014 9:28 pm