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American forces in Baghdad at he start of the Iraq war Associated Press photo

HANSON: Revisionist history prevails on Iraq invasion

By Victor Davis Hanson

Kurdish President Massoud Barzani, right, shakes hands for photographers with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry at the presidential palace in Irbil on Tuesday, June 24, 2014. The president of Iraq&#8217;s ethnic Kurdish region declared Tuesday that &#8220;we are facing a new reality and a new Iraq&#8221; as the country&#8217;s Shiite-led government considers new leadership as an immediate step to curb a Sunni insurgent rampage. The comments by Barzani came as he met with Kerry, who is pushing the central government in Baghdad to at least adopt new policies that would give more authorities to Iraq&#8217;s minority Sunnis and Kurds.(AP Photo/ Brendan Smialowski, Pool)

Kerry pushes back against independent Kurdish state

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

President Barack Obama walks off stage after speaking at the White House Summit on Working Families, Monday, June 23, 2014, in Washington. Obama is encouraging more employers to adopt family-friendly policies, part of a broader effort to convince employers that providing more flexibility is good for business as well as workers. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Obama’s Iraq ratings plummet

By S.A. Miller - The Washington Times

Kurdish President Massoud Barzani, right, shakes hands for photographers with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry at the presidential palace in Irbil on Tuesday, June 24, 2014. The president of Iraq&#8217;s ethnic Kurdish region declared Tuesday that &#8220;we are facing a new reality and a new Iraq&#8221; as the country&#8217;s Shiite-led government considers new leadership as an immediate step to curb a Sunni insurgent rampage. The comments by Barzani came as he met with Kerry, who is pushing the central government in Baghdad to at least adopt new policies that would give more authorities to Iraq&#8217;s minority Sunnis and Kurds.(AP Photo/ Brendan Smialowski, Pool)

Kurdish leader cites ‘new reality’ in Iraq

By Lara Jakes - Associated Press

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Paul Wolfowitz: Obama lacks ‘seriousness’ in Iraq

By S.A. Miller - The Washington Times

A fighter with the al-Qaida-inspired Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) distributes a copy of the Quran, Islam's holy book, to a driver in central northern city of Mosul, 225 miles (360 kilometers) northwest of Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, June 22, 2014. Sunni militants on Sunday captured two border crossings, one along the frontier with Jordan and the other with Syria, security and military officials said, as they pressed on with their offensive in one of Iraq's most restive regions. (AP Photo)

ISIL hoodies, T-shirts make debut on online retail shops

The Washington Times

The Obama administration is sending 300 American troops to Iraq to serve as military advisers in an attempt to head off a full-fledged civil war in the country. (AP Photo, File)

Syrian warplanes strike inside Iraq in effort to derail ISIL advance

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

Illustration on the dangerous jihadist mind by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

MAY: Talking with the jihadists is a strategy for losing

By Clifford D. May

This undated file image posted on a militant website on Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2014 shows fighters from the al Qaeda-linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) marching in Raqqa, Syria. (AP Photo/Militant Website, File)

ISIL terrorists aim to attack U.S., congressional report says

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki meets with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry in Baghdad, Monday, June 23, 2014. Kerry flew to Baghdad on Monday to meet with Iraq's leaders and personally urge the Shiite-led government to give more power to political opponents before a Sunni insurgency seizes more control across the country and sweeps away hopes for lasting peace. (AP Photo/Brendan Smialowski, Pool)

Baghdad surrounded: ‘Nightmare scenario’ unfolding as ISIL takes key supply routes

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

Members of an Iraqi volunteer force put on their newly issued boots in the Shiite holy city of Karbala, 50 miles south of Baghdad, Iraq Tuesday. Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has put on hold plans for a counteroffensive to retake Iraqi cities captured by Sunni insurgents in the north and west of the country, instead deploying elite forces in Baghdad to bolster its defenses. (Associated Press photographs)

Kurdish leader cites ‘new reality’ in Iraq, meets with Kerry

By Guy Taylor and Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

In an interview on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" on Monday, President Obama said ISIL could directly threaten U.S. national security — a potential justification for airstrikes or other involvement. (Associated Press)

Syria precedent may complicate broad moves on Iraq

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, left, meets with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, June 23, 2014. Kerry flew to Baghdad on Monday to meet with Iraq's leaders and personally urge the Shiite-led government to give more power to political opponents before a Sunni insurgency seizes more control across the country and sweeps away hopes for lasting peace. (AP Photo/Brendan Smialowski, Pool)

John Kerry urges political reform in Iraq

By Lara Jakes and Hamza Hendawi - Associated Press

Gen. Raymond T. Odierno, Sgt. Mary Herrera, tenor Anthony Kearns, and Kirsten Fedewa of Kirsten Fedewa & Associates (from left) pose during the 239th United States Army Birthday Gala in New York on June 12.
(Courtesy of Kirsten Fedewa & Associates LLC/Mikki L. Sprenkle, photographer of the Chief of Staff, U.S. Army)

FEDEWA: A salute to Army Gen. Odierno

By Lawrence J. Fedewa

FILE - In this Tuesday June 17, 2014 file photo President Barack Obama speaks at the Democratic National Committee's (DNC) annual Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) fundraiser gala in Gotham Hall in New York. President Barack Obama, who established his bona fides as a gay and lesbian rights champion when he endorsed same-sex marriage, has steadily extended his administration&#8217;s advocacy to the community to the smallest and least accepted band of the LGBT rainbow: transgender Americans. Obama during his first year in office became the first chief executive to say &#8220;transgender&#8221; in a speech, the first to name transgender political appointees and the first to prohibit job bias against transgender government workers. He also signed hate crime legislation that represented the first federal civil rights protections for transgender people in U.S. history. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

U.S. won’t ‘reoccupy’ Iraq, Obama insists

By S.A. Miller - The Washington Times

Obama Reaper Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

LYONS: The agenda an enemy would devise

By James A. Lyons

White House says Iraq provided ‘acceptable assurances’ it won’t prosecute U.S. troops

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

emissary: U.S. Secretary of State John F. Kerry, left, met with U.S. Marines during his visit to the Baghdad Monday. Mr. Kerry told Iraqi leaders that any potential U.S. airstrikes in the country must specifically target ISIL to avoid Sunni civilian casualties. (associated press)

Pollster says Obama’s solution for Iraq must be all-inclusive

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

NUNES: All is not well

By Devin Nunes