Tag: Iraq

Rand Paul’s Contradictory Foreign Policy

David Adesnik · October 28, 2014 5:11 pm

U.S. steps up airstrikes against Islamic State

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U.S. steps up airstrikes against Islamic State

Justin Green · October 25, 2014 6:25 pm

U.S. Marine dies in Baghdad

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U.S. Marine dies in Baghdad

Charles Hoskinson · October 25, 2014 12:40 am

Pentagon press secretary Navy Rear Adm. John Kirby speaks during a briefing at the Pentagon Sept. 2.Â Kirby defended the progress made with the U.S.-led effort to fight the Islamic State.Â (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

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Pentagon pleads for patience on Iraq

Charles Hoskinson · October 24, 2014 10:14 pm

Digging In

Geoffrey Norman · October 24, 2014 8:19 pm

Iraqi officials say the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria used chlorine gas against police officers in an attack last month north of Baghdad. (AP Photo)

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Report: Islamic State used chlorine gas against Iraqi police

Charles Hoskinson · October 24, 2014 3:11 pm

Contrary to popular opinion, President George W. Bush found no "stockpiles" of weapons of mass destruction.Â (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Iraq’s WMD: The shameless New York Times moves the goalposts

Larry Elder · October 23, 2014 10:42 pm

Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. (AP File Photo/Hasan Sarbakhshian)

The Ayatollahs are not the answer

Wesley Martin · October 23, 2014 9:00 am

Iraq’s Kurds approve sending fighters to Kobani

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Iraq’s Kurds approve sending fighters to Kobani

Charles Hoskinson · October 22, 2014 10:18 pm

Four Blackwater guards found guilty for 2007 Iraq incident

Four Blackwater guards found guilty for 2007 Iraq incident

Kelly Cohen · October 22, 2014 7:40 pm

Smoke and flames from an airstrike by the US-led coalition rise in Kobani, Syria, as seen from a hilltop on the outskirts of Suruc, at the Turkey-Syria border, Monday, Oct. 20, 2014 Kobani, also known as Ayn Arab, and its surrounding areas, has been under assault by extremists of the Islamic State group since mid-September and is being defended by Kurdish fighters. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

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Current cost of ‘Inherent Resolve’: $424 million

Kelly Cohen · October 22, 2014 11:36 am

Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi, left, meets with Iran's President Hassan Rouhani, at Tehran's Saadabad Palace on Tuesday, Oct. 21, 2014. Rouhani said Iran will stand by its neighbor Iraq in its fight against the Sunni extremists of the Islamic State group and will continue to provide Baghdad with military advisers and weapons, according to a report by the official IRNA news agency. He also criticized the U.S. for allegedly failing to sufficiently support Iraq. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

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Iran president pledges to back Iraq amid attacks

NASSER KARIMISAMEER N. YACOUB · October 21, 2014 5:28 pm