Tag: Iraq

Rosa Peralta, right, mother of Marine Sgt. Rafael Peralta, accepts the Navy Cross presented to her by Navy Secretary Ray Mabus at Camp Pendleton, Calif., Monday, June 8, 2015. (John Gastaldo/San Diego Union-Tribune via AP)

Beltway Confidential

Family of fallen Marine accepts Navy Cross

Emily Leayman · June 10, 2015 3:53 pm

More U.S. Troops to Iraq

More U.S. Troops to Iraq

Geoffrey Norman · June 10, 2015 12:14 pm

U.S. soldiers prepare to participate in a training mission with Iraqi Army soldier, right, outside Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, May 27, 2015. (AP Photo)

National Security

Up to 1,000 more U.S. troops in Iraq?

Tara Copp · June 9, 2015 10:11 pm

WH clarifies Obama’s ‘complete strategy’ comment

WH clarifies Obama’s ‘complete strategy’ comment

Susan Crabtree · June 9, 2015 8:00 pm

White House hoping for new life in AUMF debate

White House hoping for new life in AUMF debate

Susan Crabtree · June 9, 2015 7:35 pm

Sunni tribal volunteers stand in formation during their graduation ceremony in the town of Amiriyat al-Fallujah, west of Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, May 8, 2015. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

National Security

Pentagon seeks to train Sunni tribes directly

Tara Copp · June 9, 2015 7:30 pm

Michael McCaul said pulling out of Iraq and Afghanistan was President Obama's strategy all along, and said those conditions helped create the Islamic State. (AP Photo)Â

McCaul: Obama ‘can’t get his head around’ ISIS surge

Pete Kasperowicz · June 9, 2015 2:48 pm

U.S. soldiers prepare to participate in a training mission with Iraqi Army soldier, right, outside Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, May 27, 2015. (AP Photo)

National Security

State Department: We actually ‘do have a strategy’ against Islamic State

Kelly Cohen · June 9, 2015 2:24 pm

It's not lack of experience that hampers Obama; it's his refusal to learn a thing from it. (AP Photo)Â

Temperament counts

Noemie Emery · June 9, 2015 9:00 am

Ten months later, still no strategy on ISIS

National Security

Ten months later, still no strategy on ISIS

Washington Examiner · June 9, 2015 4:01 am

Americans need to "multiply their efforts" in his country to defeat the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, implying that U.S. ground troops are needed in the fight, saidÂ Saleem al-Jubouri, speaker of Iraqi parliament. (AP Photo)

National Security

U.S. must fight ‘side-by-side’ with Iraqis to beat Islamic State: Senior Iraqi politician

Charles Hoskinson · June 9, 2015 12:36 am

No Strategy to Defeat ISIS, No Strategy to Win in Iraq

No Strategy to Defeat ISIS, No Strategy to Win in Iraq

Geoffrey Norman · June 8, 2015 8:29 pm