Iraq War

President Obama speaks on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Saturday, about ongoing situation in Iraq before his departure on Marine One for a vacation in Martha's Vineyard. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

National Security

Obama: U.S. airstrikes in Iraq will continue for ‘some time’

Susan Crabtree · August 9, 2014 4:49 pm

President Barack Obama listens during a phone call with Jordan's King Abdullah II Jordan, according to the White House, Friday, Aug. 8, 2014, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Obama: US won’t be dragged into another Iraq war

Washington Examiner · August 9, 2014 10:07 am

President Obama has announced his authorization for two targeted air strikes in Iraq. (AP Photo)

Morning Examiner with Steve Doty for Aug. 8

Steve Doty · August 8, 2014 12:01 pm

People inspect the destroyed old Mosque of The Prophet Jirjis in central Mosul, Iraq, Sunday, July 27, 2014. The revered Muslim shrine was destroyed by militants who overran the city in June and imposed their harsh interpretation of Islamic law. (AP Photo)

Seriously? Obama asks Congress to repeal 2002 War in Iraq: Examiner Editorial

Washington Examiner · July 27, 2014 9:00 pm

Then-Capt. Doug Zembiec gives orders to his men over a radio prior to leaving their secured compound for a short patrol in Fallujah, Iraq, in 2004. (AP/U.S. Marine Corps. via The Albuquerque Journal, Sgt. Jose E. Guillen)

Beltway Confidential

Heroic Marine, nicknamed ‘Lion of Fallujah,’ finally honored for CIA service

Blake Seitz · July 16, 2014 5:05 pm

Dick Cheney is back to blast ‘isolationists’ on left and right

Beltway Confidential

Dick Cheney is back to blast ‘isolationists’ on left and right

Blake Seitz · July 14, 2014 10:20 pm

This image made from video posted on a militant website Saturday, July 5, 2014, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, purports to show the leader of the Islamic State group, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, delivering a sermon at a mosque in Iraq. A video posted online Saturday purports to show the leader of the Islamic State extremist group that has overrun much of Syria and Iraq delivering a sermon at a mosque in Iraq, in what would be a rare - if not the first - public appearance by the shadowy militant. (AP Photo/Militant video)

Iraq analyzing tape purported to show top militant

Sinan Salaheddin · July 6, 2014 7:22 pm

You can consider the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria a terrorist organization, but you can also consider it a particularly murderous and oppressive state. Which is it? (AP PHoto)

First Gulf War in 1991 was America’s opening Iraq mistake

Gene Healy · June 30, 2014 5:00 pm

Here’s why Democrats don’t want to talk about Iraq

Here’s why Democrats don’t want to talk about Iraq

Susan Crabtree · June 30, 2014 9:00 am

National Security

Marine who disappeared in Iraq in 2004 back in US

Robert Burns · June 29, 2014 4:53 pm

U.S. paratroopers dash across clearing to helicopters that will lift them out of this section of jungle in War Zone C in Vietnam in March 1967 and drop them in another to continue their pursuit of the Viet Cong along the Cambodian border.

Iraq and the echoes of Vietnam

Steve Chapman · June 26, 2014 3:06 pm

Iraqi civilians inspect the aftermath of a car bombing in the southeastern district of New Baghdad, Iraq. (AP/Khalid Mohammed)

10 reasons why Iraq’s bloodbath is not George W. Bush’s fault

Larry Elder · June 25, 2014 7:21 pm