The New York Times
Monday, June 16, 2014 - 07:33
“My job is to look at Africa and see where the threat to the United States is,” Linder said as he unfolded his map and traced circles around the territories where he knew extremist groups were operating.
Monday, June 16, 2014 - 06:38
As President Obama weighs airstrikes against marauding militants in Iraq, he has concluded that any American military action must be conditioned on a political plan to try to heal Iraq’s sectarian rifts.
Monday, June 16, 2014 - 06:34
The American Embassy in Baghdad plans to evacuate a substantial number of its personnel this week in the face of a militant advance that rapidly swept from the north toward the capital, the State Department announced on Sunday.
Friday, June 13, 2014 - 10:17
President Obama said Friday that he would make a decision “in the days ahead” about whether to use American military power to help the besieged Iraqi government stave off collapse at the hands of Islamist insurgents, but he ruled out using ground forces.
Friday, June 13, 2014 - 10:10
As Sunni insurgents pursued an offensive toward Baghdad on Friday, Navi Pillay, the top United Nations human rights official, expressed “extreme alarm” over what she termed summary executions, rape, reprisal killings and shelling of civilians, putting the first estimate of casualties in the hundreds.
Friday, June 13, 2014 - 06:27
Most lawmakers and administration officials expressed caution in committing to American airstrikes against militant targets, as Mr. Maliki has requested. But some said it might be the only way to give the Iraqi security services time to reorganize and blunt the militants’ offensive.
Friday, June 13, 2014 - 06:03
U.S. airstrikes and military aid will be pointless if the Iraqi Army is incapable of defending the country.
Thursday, June 12, 2014 - 13:11
The president said his national security team was working “around the clock” to determine the most effective aid.
Wednesday, June 11, 2014 - 08:50
According to the cartel’s handwritten drug ledgers that the government obtained, he delivered 246 kilos in February 2010; 250 kilos in March; another 250 kilos the next month; 200 kilos the next; and another 200 the next.
Wednesday, June 11, 2014 - 07:27
Mr. Ford, the former U.S. envoy for Syria, urged the United States and its allies to substantially step up the supply of arms to the moderate Syrian rebels in order to increase the opposition’s leverage in potential peace talks and combat the rise of extremist groups there.