RYAN LUCASZEINA KARAM - Washington Examiner

Home Authors Posts by RYAN LUCASZEINA KARAM

2 POSTS 0 COMMENTS

In this photo taken on Tuesday, July 1, 2014 an Iraqi woman inspects her damaged house after clashes between fighters of the al-Qaida-inspired Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant and Iraqi security forces in central Tikrit, 80 miles (130 kilometers) north of Baghdad, Iraq. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant announced this week that it has unilaterally established a caliphate in the areas under its control. It declared the group's leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the head of its new self-styled state governed by Shariah law and demanded that all Muslims pledge allegiance to him. (AP Photo)

National Security

Militants try to tighten their grip in Iraq, Syria

RYAN LUCASZEINA KARAM -

July 2, 2014 9:41 pm

In this Jan. 19, 2014 photo provided by the United Nations, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon briefs correspondents at the U.N. headquarters in New York on the decision by the National Coalition of Syrian Revolution and Armed Forces to participate in the upcoming Geneva Conference on Syria. He also said that he had issued an invitation to Iran to participate. (AP Photo/United Nations, Emmanuel Dunand)

News

UN rescinds invitation to Iran to attend talks

RYAN LUCASZEINA KARAM -

January 20, 2014 11:48 pm