9 Essential Questions About Iraq, Answered

President Barack Obama told reporters in a White House briefing on Thursday that he is prepared to send up to 300 military advisors to Iraq. The president also said the U.S. is ready to take “targeted and precise" military action, if needed. But he added that there is “no military solution inside Iraq - certainly not one that is led by the U.S.”

In recent days, radical militants have swept through western and northern Iraq with lightening speed. They've captured huge swaths of territory, caches of weapons and lots of money. Their swift and brutal campaign threatens to break up the country and engulf the region in a brutal sectarian bloodbath Read more...