Tag: Iraq

Cheney: Congress Should Treat Iran Deal As a Treaty

Michael Warren · September 2, 2015 1:04 pm

When the Islamic State takes over new territory, its first priority is restoring security and basic services, primarily water and electricity, as quickly as possible. (AP Photo, File)

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Rampage: ISIS burns prisoners, destroys city, aims to take down the dollar

Pete Kasperowicz · August 31, 2015 6:41 pm

The U.S. does not and, especially after sovereignty was restored to Iraq, did not have the authority or the right to unilaterally station armed forces in Iraq without Baghdad's permission. (AP Photo)Â

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The ‘if only’ Islamic State strategy

Robert Loftis · August 31, 2015 4:01 am

WEX Week Ahead: Obama pivots to climate change amidst Iraq in peril

WEX Week Ahead: Obama pivots to climate change amidst Iraq in peril

Lisa Ruhl · August 28, 2015 6:17 pm

A Turkish Air Force fighter plane flies over the Incirlik Air Base, in Adana, southern Turkey, Thursday, Aug. 13, 2015. (AP Photo/Usame Ari/Cihan News Agency)

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Turkey to begin strikes on ISIS within days

Jacqueline Klimas · August 25, 2015 6:55 pm

Migrants sit on the tracks at the railway station in the southern Macedonia's town of Gevgelija, after breaking through the police blockade on the border with Greece, on Saturday, Aug. 22, 2015. (AP Photo/Boris Grdanoski)

Migrant crisis roils Europe

Curt Mills · August 22, 2015 9:10 pm

Demonstrators chant pro-Islamic State group slogans as they wave the group's flags in front of the provincial government headquarters in Mosul, 225 miles northwest of Baghdad, Iraq. (AP Photo, File)

U.S. military kills Islamic State’s second-in-command

Susan Crabtree · August 21, 2015 7:51 pm

Fairgoers listen as Republican presidential candidate Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., speaks during a visit to the Iowa State Fair, Monday, Aug. 17, 2015, in Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Graham: ‘I don’t know how to destroy ISIL without boots on the ground’

Gabby Morrongiello · August 18, 2015 6:29 pm

When we were fighting alongside the Iraqis and bolstering their leadership, they would fight. (AP Photo)Â

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Why we’re losing in Iraq: We need troops on the ground

James Steele · August 18, 2015 4:01 am

Obama and Hillary, Not Jeb, Responsible for Iraq Today

Derek Harvey · August 15, 2015 2:18 pm

ISIS Crosses Another Line

ISIS Crosses Another Line

Geoffrey Norman · August 14, 2015 7:10 pm

Smoke rises while civilians gather at the scene of bomb attack in Jameela market in the Iraqi capital's crowded Sadr City neighborhood Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday. (AP Photo/Ali Abdul Hassan)

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Islamic State takes credit for Baghdad blast that killed 67

Barbara Boland · August 13, 2015 7:31 pm