Tag: Kurds

FILE - In this Aug. 28, 2009 file picture a German armored infantry vehicle Dingo takes part in a combat training in Letzlingen, eastern Germany. Germany joins other European countries who have pledged to provide arms to the Kurds fighting the Islamic State group that has swept into northern Iraq in recent months. In total, the shipments will include 8,000 G36 assault rifles and the same number of G3 rifles, as well as ammunition; 200 Panzerfaust 3 and 30 MILAN anti-tank systems; and five heavily armored Dingo infantry vehicles. Chancellor Angela Merkel has told German lawmakers Monday Sept.1, 2014 that arming Kurdish fighters battling Islamic extremists in Iraq wasn't an easy decision but is in her country's interest. (AP Photo/Eckehard Schulz,File)

Merkel: Arming Kurds in Germany’s interest

Washington Examiner · September 1, 2014 5:26 pm

National Security

UK appoints security envoy to Iraqi Kurdistan

Washington Examiner · August 24, 2014 1:35 pm

National Security

Kurds protest in Paris against ISIS

Washington Examiner · August 23, 2014 5:09 pm

Smoke rises during airstrikes targeting Islamic State militants at the Mosul Dam outside Mosul, Iraq, Monday. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

National Security

Pentagon says Iraq airstrikes will be limited — for now

Susan Crabtree · August 19, 2014 7:28 pm

Obama calls on new Iraqi leader to unite country

Ed Sykes · August 18, 2014 9:28 pm

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

Backyard Battletanks

Geoffrey Norman · August 15, 2014 6:31 pm

Obama laments killing of black teen while appealing for calm in Ferguson

Susan Crabtree · August 14, 2014 5:35 pm

France to send weapons to Kurds in Iraq

Greg Keller · August 13, 2014 8:08 pm

‘Mission Shrink’

Michael Warren · August 11, 2014 1:03 pm

President Obama approaches the podium to speak about the situation in Iraq in the State Dining Room at the White House in Washington, Thursday. (AP/Charles Dharapak)

National Security

Four reasons Obama’s airstrikes won’t solve Iraq’s ISIS problem

Susan Crabtree · August 9, 2014 9:44 am

Immigration reform won't happen until next year, House Speaker John Boehner said Tuesday on Hugh Hewitt's radio show. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

National Security

John Boehner supports airstrikes but ‘dismayed’ by Obama’s Iraq policies

Sean Lengell · August 8, 2014 5:57 pm