Tag: Iraq

Shiite tribal fighters carry a poster of Shiite spiritual leader Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, as they raise their weapons chanting slogans against the al-Qaida-inspired Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant in Basra, Iraq's second-largest city. (AP/Nabil Al-Jurani)

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant’s media foray

Austin Bay · June 18, 2014 2:41 pm

German Chancellor Angela Merkel points to select a journalist for questions during a news conference with Tunisian Prime Minister Mehdi Jomaa after a meeting at the chancellery in Berlin, Wednesday, June 18, 2014. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Merkel sees US ‘special responsibility’ in Iraq

Washington Examiner · June 18, 2014 1:59 pm

President Obama's approval rating has slipped considerably in states where elections in November could decide who controls the U.S. Senate. (AP Photo)

Beltway Confidential

Poll watch: Hispanics help drive President Obama’s approval rating to a fresh low

Becket Adams · June 18, 2014 1:45 pm

President Obama will meet with Democratic and Republican congressional leaders at the White House Wednesday to discuss the uprisings in Iraq and other foreign policy issues. (AP Photo)

Obama polling lower than George W. Bush on competency

Brian Hughes · June 18, 2014 1:38 pm

Humiliation at rout hits Iraqi military hard

HAMZA HENDAWIQASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA · June 18, 2014 12:52 pm

Iraq militants walk fine line in seized areas

SAMEER N. YACOUBADAM SCHRECK · June 18, 2014 8:30 am

Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif.,speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 17, 2014, after a Democratic caucus. President Barack Obama will meet with Congressional leaders at the White House on Wednesday to discuss the turmoil in Iraq. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

National Security

US focus shifts away from airstrikes in Iraq

Julie Pace · June 18, 2014 3:50 am

Iraqi men flash victory signs as they leave the main recruiting center to join the Iraqi army in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, June 17, 2014, after authorities urged Iraqis to help battle insurgents. Hundreds of young Iraqi men gripped by religious and nationalistic fervor streamed into volunteer centers across Baghdad Saturday, answering a call by the country's top Shiite cleric to join the fight against Sunni militants advancing in the north. (AP Photo/ Khalid Mohammed)

Signs of reprisal killings emerge in Iraq

Hamza Hendawi · June 17, 2014 10:51 pm

This Image made from video posted by Iraqi0Revolution, a group supporting the al Qaeda breakaway Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) on Wednesday, June 11, 2014, which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting, shows a militant standing in front of a burning Iraqi Army Humvee in Tikrit, Iraq. (AP Photo/Iraqi0Revolution via AP video, File)

Beltway Confidential

Former Guantanamo Bay detainee arrested in Spain for recruiting ISIS fighters

Blake Seitz · June 17, 2014 9:27 pm

President Obama, accompanied by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, speaks during a Transfer of Remains Ceremony, Friday, Sept. 14, 2012, at Andrews Air Force Base, Md. (AP/Carolyn Kaster)

Bad timing bedevils both Obama and Hillary Clinton

Noemie Emery · June 17, 2014 9:01 pm

Podcast: American Neglect has Given Rise to a Resurgent Al Qaeda

TWS Podcast · June 17, 2014 8:18 pm

FILE - This Dec. 3, 2011 file photo shows Iraq's Shiite Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki talks during an interview with The Associated Press in Baghdad, Iraq. The prospect of the U.S. military returning to the fight in Iraq has turned congressional hawks into doves. Lawmakers who eagerly voted to authorize military force 12 years ago to oust Saddam Hussein and destroy weapons of mass destruction that were never found now harbor doubts that air strikes will turn back insurgents threatening Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's government and Baghdad. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban, File)

National Security

Prospect of new Iraq fight turns hawks into doves

DONNA CASSATABRADLEY KLAPPER · June 17, 2014 7:00 pm