Islam

Iraqi Shiite fighters with the "Peace Brigades" patrol in Samarra, Iraq.ÃÂ (AP Photo/File)

Iraq’s crisis requires a political solution

Mike Coffman · July 20, 2014 10:00 am

President Obama speaks as he hosts an Iftar dinner, which celebrates the breaking of fast during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan in the State Dining Room at the White House in Washington, Monday. (AP/Charles Dharapak)

Beltway Confidential

At Ramadan dinner, Obama attributes his success to family and community, not government

Becket Adams · July 15, 2014 2:18 pm

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif waits for the start of closed-door nuclear talks with European foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton in Vienna, Austria, Thursday, July 3, 2014. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)

Iranian foreign minister: Keep Iraq intact

Zack Colman · July 13, 2014 4:27 pm

Smoke and debris go up in the air as Shiite's Saad bin Aqeel Husseiniya shrine explodes in Tal Afar, Iraq. (AP)

Breaking through the myth of ‘Islamophobia’

Jed Babbin · July 9, 2014 9:26 pm

Palestinian Hamas supporters chant islamic slogans during a demonstration against the Israeli military operations in the West Bank in Jebaliya refugee camp, northern Gaza Strip, Friday, July 4, 2014. (AP/Hatem Moussa)

U.S. taxpayers shouldn’t be forced to fund Palestinian terrorism

Star Parker · July 5, 2014 10:00 am

In this photo taken on Tuesday, July 1, 2014 an Iraqi woman inspects her damaged house after clashes between fighters of the al-Qaida-inspired Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant and Iraqi security forces in central Tikrit, 80 miles (130 kilometers) north of Baghdad, Iraq. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant announced this week that it has unilaterally established a caliphate in the areas under its control. It declared the group's leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the head of its new self-styled state governed by Shariah law and demanded that all Muslims pledge allegiance to him. (AP Photo)

National Security

Militants try to tighten their grip in Iraq, Syria

RYAN LUCASZEINA KARAM · July 2, 2014 9:41 pm

Islamic state declaration could lead to schism

RYAN LUCASSAMEER N. YACOUB · June 30, 2014 4:57 pm

FILE - In this Monday, June 16, 2014 file photo, demonstrators chant slogans to support al-Qaida-inspired Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant as they carry al-Qaida flags in front of the provincial government headquarters in Mosul, 225 miles (360 kilometers) northwest of Baghdad, Iraq. The al-Qaida breakaway group that has seized much of northern Syria and huge tracks of neighboring Iraq formally declared the creation of an Islamic state on Sunday, June 29, in the territory under its control. (AP Photo, File)

Successors to the prophet: Islam’s caliphates

Joseph Krauss · June 30, 2014 4:47 pm

Tempers fray as displaced Iraqis break Muslim fast

Diaa Hadid · June 30, 2014 7:38 am

FILE - In this file photo taken Thursday, June 19, 2014, an al-Qaida-inspired militant stands guard at a checkpoint captured from the Iraqi Army outside Beiji refinery, some 250 kilometers (155 miles) north of Baghdad, Iraq. The al-Qaida breakaway group that has seized much of northern Syria and huge tracks of neighboring Iraq formally declared the creation of an Islamic state on Sunday, June 29, in the territory under its control. (AP Photo, File)

National Security

Al-Qaida splinter declares new Islamic caliphate

Ryan Lucas · June 30, 2014 3:08 am

Meriam Ibrahim, the 27-year-old Sudanese woman who was released this week after being sentenced to death for leaving Islam, is "safe and well" at the U.S. embassy in Sudan, according to her husband. (AP Photo)

Beltway Confidential

Meriam Ibrahim is currently safe at the U.S. embassy in Sudan

Ashe Schow · June 27, 2014 4:11 pm

In this Image made from an undated video provided Thursday, June 5, 2014, by Al Fajer, a Sudanese nongovernmental organization, Meriam Ibrahim is visited by the NGO at a prison in Khartoum, Sudan. (AP Photo/Al Fajer)

Beltway Confidential

Meriam Ibrahim has been freed, again

Ashe Schow · June 26, 2014 3:35 pm