Iraq

U.S. strategy in Syria has long been plagued by short-term thinking, while Russia, Turkey, and Iran played a long game. Trump’s betrayal of the Kurds is just the latest chapter in Washington’s bungled approach to the region.

New survey data shows that Iraqis are deeply divided on how to punish members of the terrorist group.

The firing of a wildly popular general who led the fight against ISIS has set off demonstrations that could threaten the country’s stability.

After 15 years of corruption, Iraqi protesters have finally reached a breaking point. Some even want military rule.

A Belgian fighter captured in Syria was transported to Iraq to face trial. He's now on death row.

With the country barely stabilizing after 16 years of conflict, war-weary Iraqis fear a new eruption of attacks by the U.S. and Israel against Iranian-backed forces inside the country.

Nearly four decades after taking out Saddam Hussein’s nuclear reactor, Israel once again faces threats emanating from Iranian-backed militias in 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.