Tag Archives: sunni

DIA Director sees Iraq as ‘quagmire,’ but strikes term from testimony

06/17/2015 Published on Foxnews.com
EXCLUSIVE: One of President Obama’s top intelligence officers has privately concluded that the situation in Iraq is a “quagmire,” but struck the term from testimony being prepared for him to deliver on Capitol Hill, Fox News has learned. Internal documents…

ISIS threat: Operation ‘Inherent Resolve’ is a flop. Time to arm the Kurds

10/17/2014 Published on Foxnews.com
President Obama met with the anti-ISIS coalition’s defense ministers at Andrews Air Force Base this week. Afterward, he said the 21 member states agreed that they’re going to defeat ISIS. It sounded great. But it was a fairy tale. The…

ISIS threat: America ignores growing anarchy in Iraq at its peril

10/15/2014 Published on Foxnews.com
A very prominent Iraqi –a former senior official and ambassador, now out of Iraq — called the other day to relay the urgent dilemma of his cousins, who live outside Haditha, a Sunni stronghold in western Iraq. Haditha is the…

Free advice for Secretary Kerry on Iraq

06/23/2014 Published on Foxnews.com
TAMPA, FLORIDA – This is the home of U.S. Central Command and U.S. Special Operations Command – the two entities responsible for U.S. military activities in Mesopotamia (Iraq), the Persian Gulf States and Southwest Asia – including Afghanistan. Many of…