Iraq

As a fragile ceasefire begins, Tehran is using lessons from the Iran-Iraq War to prepare for an American escalation.

The Islamic Republic is weaker—on multiple fronts—than it’s been in nearly half a century.

Peter van Agtmael’s images of war and domestic strife are arresting and almost cinematically spare, but it is the careful narrative arc of his new book, “Look at the U.S.A.,” that deepens the viewer’s experience.

What happened that day in Haditha?

The largest known database of possible American war crimes committed in Iraq and Afghanistan shows that the military-justice system rarely punishes perpetrators.

When U.S. Marines killed twenty-four people in an Iraqi town, they also recorded the aftermath of their actions. For years, the military tried to keep these photos from the public.

A new series from the award-winning investigative podcast examines the killing of twenty-four Iraqi civilians by U.S. Marines, and why no one was ever brought to justice.

Hajji Abdullah is the latest jihadi leader eliminated in a U.S. raid, but the President still faces challenges in Russia, China, and Iran, as well as the pandemic. 

Though Powell created a doctrine of avoiding war unless absolutely necessary, he will be remembered for making the faulty case for invading Iraq.

Soldiers were told that we were champions of the rights of mankind.

Is there any way for Biden to achieve peace with honor in Iraq, Syria, and Afghanistan?

In a historic meeting in Iraq, the leaders of Catholicism and Shiite Islam urged coexistence among the Abrahamic faiths.

The new President’s core problem is persuading allies to believe in America again.

A lame-duck Donald Trump may seek to shore up his dismal foreign-policy legacy with military strikes or premature troop withdrawals—at the risk of sabotaging Joe Biden’s foreign policy.

For the past eight months, the government has failed to disclose crucial information in an Iraqi refugee’s extradition proceedings.

On Wednesday, Trump made no mention of further military strikes against Iran. Yet the rest of his speech was far less reassuring.

Iran’s cruise-missile attack on two U.S. positions in Iraq came with advance notice and seemed calibrated to seek revenge but avoid war with the United States.

After months of debates looking out on the horizon, the Democratic Presidential hopefuls confront the present-day question of the President’s decision to assassinate Qassem Suleimani.

Some form of conflict between the United States and the Islamic Republic, overt or covert, seems more possible now than at any time since the 1979 Revolution.

“The last war is yet to be finished, and we’re talking about starting a new war? It’s just madness,” Barham Salih, the Iraqi President, says.