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President Barack Obama pauses as he speaks in the James Brady Press Briefing Room in the White House in Washington, Monday, Aug. 18, 2014. Taking a two-day break from summer vacation, Obama met with top advisers at the White House to review developments in Iraq and in racially charged Ferguson, Mo., two trouble spots where Obama has ordered his administration to intervene. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

National Security

Obama: Iraq has regained control of Mosul dam

Robert Burns · August 18, 2014 11:11 pm

Pope Francis speaks to the media during an airborne press conference on his journey back to Rome from Seoul, South Korea, Monday, Aug. 18, 2014. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Beltway Confidential

The people who ‘explain the news’ look like they don’t actually read the news

Becket Adams · August 18, 2014 10:45 pm

Iraq Shiite fighters make their way to the front line to fight militants from the extremist Islamic State group in Jurf al-Sakhar, 43 miles (70 kilometers) south of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Aug 18, 2014. Fighters of the voluntary armed group formed after the radical Shiite cleric Muqtatda al-Sadr called to protect holy shrines against possible attacks by Sunni militants. (AP Photo/ Hadi MIzban))

Obama: Iraq forces retake Mosul Dam from militants

VIVIAN SALAMADIAA HADID · August 18, 2014 10:06 pm

Obama calls on new Iraqi leader to unite country

Ed Sykes · August 18, 2014 9:28 pm

This undated image posted by the Raqqa Media Center, a Syrian opposition group, on Monday, June 30, 2014, shows fighters from the al-Qaida linked Islamic State during a parade in Raqqa, Syria. (AP Photo/Raqqa Media Center)

State Department labels Islamic State spokesman a ‘terrorist’

Susan Crabtree · August 18, 2014 3:59 pm

‘Action Is Elusive’

William Kristol · August 18, 2014 4:00 am

Kurdish forces, known as peshmerga, stand guard near Mosul Dam at the town of Chamibarakat outside Mosul, Iraq, Sunday, Aug. 17, 2014. Kurdish forces took over parts of the largest dam in Iraq on Sunday less than two weeks after it was captured by the Islamic State extremist group, Kurdish security officials said, as U.S. and Iraqi planes aided their advance by bombing militant targets near the facility. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

Kurdish forces retake parts of Iraq’s largest dam

Diaa Hadid · August 17, 2014 7:29 pm

In an interview with ABC's Martha Raddatz Sunday, Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, D-Hawaii, criticized President Obama's response to the threat posed by the Islamic State. (AP Photo/Marco Garcia)

National Security

Rep. Tulsi Gabbard calls U.S. counterterrorism mission ‘lost’

Susan Crabtree · August 17, 2014 5:01 pm

In this photo taken during a Syrian government-led media tour, buildings damaged during battles between Syrian troops and rebels stand along an empty street in Mleiha, some 10 kilometers (6 miles) southeast of downtown Damascus, Syria, Friday, Aug. 15, 2014. Syrian government troops captured the fiercely contested suburb of the capital Thursday after five months of heavy fighting, flushing rebels from their last hideouts and quickly moving to crush pockets of resistance in the surrounding countryside, activists and state media said. (AP Photo)

National Security

Syrian airstrikes target Islamic State group

Ryan Lucas · August 17, 2014 3:45 pm

Police stand watch as demonstrators protest the shooting death of teenager Michael Brown on August 13, 2014 in Ferguson, Mo. (Getty images / Scott Olson)

Iraq, Ferguson, and the ‘libertarian moment’

Timothy P. Carney · August 16, 2014 9:00 pm

Residents near Iraq’s Mosul dam, held by Islamic State group, say area being hit by airstrikes

National Security

Residents near Iraq’s Mosul dam, held by Islamic State group, say area being hit by airstrikes

Washington Examiner · August 16, 2014 10:07 am

Iraqi officials: Survivors say Islamic State militants killed over 80 men in northern village

Iraqi officials: Survivors say Islamic State militants killed over 80 men in northern village

Washington Examiner · August 16, 2014 8:47 am