Iraq

Prime Minister Mahdi is trying to bring the Popular Mobilization Forces under control of the government, but even he probably knows it won’t work.

On the podcast: The filmmaker Alexandria Bombach followed the Yazidi human rights activist Nadia Murad for the film “On Her Shoulders.”

On the podcast: Elliot Ackerman served five tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan.

A new book looks at why the U.S. military keeps trapping itself in endless conflicts.

The abrupt evacuation in May left hundreds of diplomats in limbo and too few in Iraq to handle Iran’s influence and other pressing issues, according to State Department sources.

Caught between the United States and Iran, Iraq is facing deep energy insecurity. In Kurdistan, the solution may be solar power.

How the Popular Mobilization Forces are taking over the Iraqi state from within.

Iraq’s Shiite militias are doing Iran’s bidding against the United States. Baghdad won’t be able to dismantle them.

The Saudi crown prince’s regional aggression and disdain for human rights have prompted religious scholars and pious pilgrims to refuse to go on the hajj. 

France is leading the way in washing its hands of its Islamic State fighters—whether they receive justice or not.

Roiled with internal divisions, Iraqi forces struggle to fully eliminate the Islamic State.

The country’s trials have been brutally efficient, but will the U.N. deem them fair?

Bitter memories of impunity for U.S. soldiers still rankle even close allies.