Tag: Al Qaeda

This Oct. 2008 file photo shows Imam Anwar al-Awlaki in Yemen, who was killed in a U.S. drone strike. (AP Photo/Muhammad ud-Deen, File)

Who to kill? Obama’s drone policy is more about politics than law

Jed Babbin · June 26, 2014 11:26 am

In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrians gather at the site of a car bombing in Homs, Syria, Tuesday, June 24, 2014. An explosion struck the central Syrian city of Homs, killing and wounding several people, in the latest blast to hit the city in recent weeks, Syrian media and an activist group said. (AP Photo/SANA)

Al-Qaida in border town pledges loyalty to rivals

Zeina Karam · June 25, 2014 8:44 pm

The State Department's Center for Strategic Counterterrorism Communications has hired a contractor to provide it with six staffers toÃÂ conduct "a digital English-language campaign designed to counter propaganda by al Qaeda and other extremist groups" outside the U.S., according to Fed Biz Opps, a website for government contract solicitations and related information.ÃÂ (iStock Image)

State Department going online to counter terrorism messages

Kelly Cohen · June 25, 2014 5:02 pm

Iraqi Shiite Turkmen gunmen gather as they prepare to patrol around the village of Taza Khormato in the northern oil rich province of Kirkuk, in this picture taken Friday, June 20, 2014. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Al Qaeda is back in Iraq because President Obama and Hillary Clinton chose not to block them

Hugh Hewitt · June 22, 2014 10:43 pm

Cheney: Obama is ‘dead wrong’ on foreign policy

Red Alert Politics

Cheney: Obama is ‘dead wrong’ on foreign policy

Morgan Chalfant · June 22, 2014 8:35 pm

This Image posted on a militant website on Saturday, June 14, 2014, which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting, appears to show militants from the al Qaeda-inspired Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) with truckloads of captured Iraqi soldiers after taking over a base in Tikrit, Iraq. (AP Photo via militant website)

Michael McCaul: Crisis in Iraq is ‘greatest threat since 9/11’

Susan Crabtree · June 15, 2014 3:35 pm

A group supporting the al-Qaida 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. The al-Qaida-inspired group that led the charge in capturing two key Sunni-dominated cities in Iraq this week has vowed to march on to Baghdad, raising fears about the Shiite-led governmentâs ability to slow the assault following lightening gains. Fighters from ISIL on Wednesday took Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit, as soldiers and security forces abandoned their posts and yielded ground once controlled by U.S. forces. (AP Photo/Iraqi0Revolution via AP video)

National Security

Obama says U.S. may help try to stabilize Iraq

Susan Crabtree · June 13, 2014 5:07 pm

Al-Qaida claims attack on Tunisian minister home

Al-Qaida claims attack on Tunisian minister home

Washington Examiner · June 13, 2014 3:16 pm

WH Pledges To ‘Increase’ Assistance To Iraq ‘As Required’

WH Pledges To ‘Increase’ Assistance To Iraq ‘As Required’

Daniel Halper · June 12, 2014 1:19 am

Militias of the al-Qaida breakaway group Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) deploy in an area in Tikrit, 80 miles (130 kilometers) north of Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, June 11, 2014. Al-Qaida-inspired militants seized effective control Wednesday of Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit, expanding their offensive closer to the Iraqi capital as soldiers and security forces abandoned their posts following clashes with the insurgents. (AP Photo)

National Security

Al-Qaida breakaway pursuing an Islamic state

Ryan Lucas · June 11, 2014 10:50 pm

Shiite pilgrims beat themselves as a sign of grief outside the holy Shiite shrine of Imam Moussa al-Kadhim, in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, May 24. (AP Photo/ Karim Kadim)

Did al Qaeda win the Iraq war?

Terence Jeffrey · June 11, 2014 3:11 pm

There Is No War on Terror?

There Is No War on Terror?

Geoffrey Norman · June 11, 2014 12:13 pm