Iraq

One year on from the defeat of the Islamic State, the new U.S. Congress should draw on lessons learned from efforts to counter violent extremism.

The late 41st U.S. president’s prudence was once derided as the wimp factor, but it has aged well.

The defeat of the Islamic State has created a power vacuum in the northern Iraqi town of Sinjar, leaving the Yazidi minority at the mercy of competing militias.

The world has focused on rebuilding the country’s north after defeating the Islamic State while ignoring festering resentment and poverty in Basra.

In the 1980s, the United States embraced a brutal Middle Eastern tyrant simply because he opposed Iran. Washington should not repeat the same mistake today.

Two years after deciding to leave the European Union, many Brits want a second vote on Brexit.

A strange alliance between Sunnis and Shiites is sure to leave Iraq worse off.

The British Labour leader misses no opportunity to condemn the West, but he’s full of praise for violent revolutionaries.

Iraq’s Kurdish kingmakers used to side with Washington. Now, Tehran seems like a more attractive partner.

The former militia leader who once terrorized U.S. forces has reinvented himself as an Iraqi nationalist and a pragmatist.

Beijing is using the region's ongoing woes to solidify its own geopolitical agenda.

The big question for the world is whether the United States will now follow its old Iraq playbook, too.

In the run-up to the G-7 summit, Trump seemed to forget a key lesson from history.

Will it be the Harvard- and MIT-educated mandarin, the coveralls-wearing man of the people — or someone else the world has never heard of?

The time is ripe for a U.S. approach based on pushing Iranian domestic politics into crisis.

For the first time since the military defeat of the Islamic State, Iraqis are voting for a new parliament. And Tehran and Washington aren’t getting in the way.

Iraqi politicians are finally crossing ethnic and religious lines. But how long can the good vibes last?

The Trump Administration’s lack of engagement has made the terrorist threat worse.

Airstrikes against Syria may galvanize support against the United States.

What Tunisia can teach its neighbors about the value of education.