Tag: ISIS

Obama: No Iraq rescue; further airdrops unlikely

ROBERT BURNSKEN DILANIAN · August 15, 2014 1:14 am

National Security

Iraq’s al-Maliki gives up post to rival

SAMEER N. YACOUBQASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA · August 15, 2014 1:06 am

President Obama and former President George W. Bush attend the opening ceremony of the George W. Bush Presidential Center April 25, 2013 in Dallas, Texas. (Getty Images/Alex Wong)

Obama’s incomprehensible Iraq policy not so incomprehensible

David Limbaugh · August 14, 2014 10:49 pm

Islamic State’s murderous excess is the road to its demise

Austin Bay · August 14, 2014 2:52 pm

The Islamic State group fighters already caused the expulsion of Iraq's Christians, Shiite Muslims and adherents of the tiny Shabak faith. The hardliners see other religious groups as heretics who may be killed or forced to submit to their rule. (AP Photo/ Khalid Mohammed)

Many Muslim leaders have denounced the Islamic State

David Freddoso · August 14, 2014 1:04 pm

The Battle For Iraq’s Future

Michael Warren · August 14, 2014 11:41 am

National Security

Obama weighs strategy against Islamic State

KEN DILANIANLARA JAKES · August 14, 2014 7:14 am

White House officials have said that ground forces could aid in a humanitarian mission in Iraq, but that the mission "would include no combat boots being put on the ground." (iStock)

National Security

White House: No (combat) boots on the ground in Iraq

Brian Hughes · August 13, 2014 10:23 pm

Everything Obama says about Iraq is wrong

Everything Obama says about Iraq is wrong

Charles Hoskinson · August 12, 2014 8:19 pm

President Obama authorized U.S. airstrikes in northern Iraq, Thursday, warning they would be launched if needed to defend Americans from advancing Islamic militants and protect civilians under siege. Obama said American military planes already had carried out airdrops of humanitarian aid to tens of thousands of Iraqi religious minorities surrounded by militants and desperately in need of food and water. The Pentagon said the airdrops were performed by one C-17 and two C-130 cargo aircraft that together delivered a total of 72 bundles of food and water. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston)

National Security

Why get involved in Iraq, but not Syria? It’s complicated, Obama says

Brian Hughes · August 12, 2014 7:40 pm

Kristol Podcast: Hillary vs. Obama — a 2016 Preview?

TWS Podcast · August 12, 2014 5:45 pm

Obama Adviser: Jihadists’ Caliphate ‘Absurd’

Thomas Joscelyn · August 12, 2014 10:31 am