Tag: ISIS

This undated image posted by the Raqqa Media Center, a Syrian opposition group, on Monday, June 30, 2014, shows fighters from the al-Qaida linked Islamic State during a parade in Raqqa, Syria. (AP Photo/Raqqa Media Center)

State Department labels Islamic State spokesman a ‘terrorist’

Susan Crabtree · August 18, 2014 3:59 pm

‘Action Is Elusive’

William Kristol · August 18, 2014 4:00 am

Kurdish forces, known as peshmerga, stand guard near Mosul Dam at the town of Chamibarakat outside Mosul, Iraq, Sunday, Aug. 17, 2014. Kurdish forces took over parts of the largest dam in Iraq on Sunday less than two weeks after it was captured by the Islamic State extremist group, Kurdish security officials said, as U.S. and Iraqi planes aided their advance by bombing militant targets near the facility. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

Kurdish forces retake parts of Iraq’s largest dam

Diaa Hadid · August 17, 2014 7:29 pm

In an interview with ABC's Martha Raddatz Sunday, Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, D-Hawaii, criticized President Obama's response to the threat posed by the Islamic State. (AP Photo/Marco Garcia)

National Security

Rep. Tulsi Gabbard calls U.S. counterterrorism mission ‘lost’

Susan Crabtree · August 17, 2014 5:01 pm

In this photo taken during a Syrian government-led media tour, buildings damaged during battles between Syrian troops and rebels stand along an empty street in Mleiha, some 10 kilometers (6 miles) southeast of downtown Damascus, Syria, Friday, Aug. 15, 2014. Syrian government troops captured the fiercely contested suburb of the capital Thursday after five months of heavy fighting, flushing rebels from their last hideouts and quickly moving to crush pockets of resistance in the surrounding countryside, activists and state media said. (AP Photo)

National Security

Syrian airstrikes target Islamic State group

Ryan Lucas · August 17, 2014 3:45 pm

Police stand watch as demonstrators protest the shooting death of teenager Michael Brown on August 13, 2014 in Ferguson, Mo. (Getty images / Scott Olson)

Iraq, Ferguson, and the ‘libertarian moment’

Timothy P. Carney · August 16, 2014 9:00 pm

Residents near Iraq’s Mosul dam, held by Islamic State group, say area being hit by airstrikes

National Security

Residents near Iraq’s Mosul dam, held by Islamic State group, say area being hit by airstrikes

Washington Examiner · August 16, 2014 10:07 am

Iraqi officials: Survivors say Islamic State militants killed over 80 men in northern village

Iraqi officials: Survivors say Islamic State militants killed over 80 men in northern village

Washington Examiner · August 16, 2014 8:47 am

Backyard Battletanks

Backyard Battletanks

Geoffrey Norman · August 15, 2014 6:31 pm

Europe Grapples With Its Homegrown Jihadists

Josh Cohen · August 15, 2014 5:48 pm

ISIS: Fight Them Now, Or Fight Them Later

ISIS: Fight Them Now, Or Fight Them Later

Geoffrey Norman · August 15, 2014 2:26 pm

Yes, We Can Defeat ISIS in Iraq

Yes, We Can Defeat ISIS in Iraq

Michael Warren · August 15, 2014 11:07 am