Iraq

Beltway Confidential

State Department does Iraq a disservice with energy schemes

Michael Rubin · March 7, 2023 6:00 am

A U.S F-18 fighter refuels over Iraq. As of March 10, 2015 (date of this photo) U.S. planes have handled 80 percent of the campaigns's airstrikes. (AP Photo/Razan Alzayani)

Senior ISIS leader killed, four US service members wounded in Syrian raid, CENTCOM says

Mike Brest · February 17, 2023 5:12 pm

FILE - In this Sept. 24, 2014 file photo, a sheet of uncut $100 bills is inspected during the printing process at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing Western Currency Facility in Fort Worth, Texas. A strengthening U.S. economy, combined with a gloomy outlook for growth elsewhere in the world, is pushing the U.S. currency to its highest level in more than a year. (AP Photo/LM Otero, File)

Beltway Confidential

End America’s complicity in Iraq’s sanctions busting

joel-rayburn and John Hannah · February 8, 2023 6:28 pm

A U.S F-18 fighter refuels over Iraq. As of March 10, 2015 (date of this photo) U.S. planes have handled 80 percent of the campaigns's airstrikes. (AP Photo/Razan Alzayani)

CENTCOM killed 11 ISIS operatives and detained 227 others in January operations

Mike Brest · February 2, 2023 4:58 pm

Women walk at al-Hol camp, home to some 60,000 people, many of them families and supporters of Islamic State fighters, in Hasakeh province, Syria, Saturday, May 1, 2021. Security inside al-Hol camp has improved since a security operation was carried out last month but concern over a coronavirus outbreak in the crowded facility has grown.

Iraq repatriates more than 500 people from Syrian al-Hol refugee camp

Mike Brest · January 18, 2023 3:50 pm

FILE - In this Sunday, March 30, 2014, file photo, Islamic State group militants hold up their flag as they patrol in a commandeered Iraqi military vehicle in Fallujah, 40 miles (65 kilometers) west of Baghdad, Iraq.

Ten killed in terrorist bus attack in Syria: State media

Conrad Hoyt · December 30, 2022 8:34 am

A top U.S. general in Central Command amended intelligence reports to present U.S. in a better light. (AP Photo, File)

CENTCOM killed more than 650 ISIS operatives in 2022, but their ideology lives on

Mike Brest · December 29, 2022 3:58 pm

US should not sponsor Iraqi jailbreaks

US should not sponsor Iraqi jailbreaks

Michael Rubin · November 16, 2022 12:00 am

Biden briefly confuses Ukraine with Iraq, ‘where my son died’

Naomi Lim · November 1, 2022 7:56 pm

US downs Iranian drone amid Revolutionary Guard strikes in Iraq

Joel Gehrke · September 28, 2022 10:03 pm

Amazon’s Alexa finds itself between Iraq and a hard place

Amazon’s Alexa finds itself between Iraq and a hard place

Michael Rubin · September 19, 2022 12:00 am

Will Biden wake up on Iran?

Washington Examiner · September 4, 2022 4:00 am