List of Iraq articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Don’t Knock Offshore Balancing Until You’ve Tried It
Whatever you want to call the Obama foreign policy, it has not been a calculated attempt to contain the rise of hegemonic threats.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Someone Is Smuggling Desperate Civilians Out of Mosul. It Might Be ISIS.
The latest Islamic State moneymaking operation appears to be the trafficking of people from the besieged city to safety.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 U.N. Braces for a Potentially Massive Exodus from Mosul
With winter coming and funding running low, the U.N. refugee agency is racing to avoid another humanitarian disaster in Iraq.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 SitRep: It’s Mattis for SecDef; ISIS Making Stand to Protect Oil
Afghanistan Continues to Falter; U.K. Heading to South China Sea; And Lots More
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Clawing Into Mosul, Block by Block
With the Islamic State dug in on the western bank of the Tigris, the Iraqi Army braces for the bloodiest phase of the fight.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 SitRep: Trump Promises More U.S. Support for Iraq; Aleppo Teeters But Assad Not Really Winning
China Slams Singapore; New Petraeus Investigation; And Lots More
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 SitRep: In Final Weeks, Obama Expands Global Terrorism Fight; Iran Looking for Overseas Bases
New Army Chief in Pakistan; Syrian Forces Push in Aleppo; And Lots More
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fishman_cover The Man Who Could Have Stopped the Islamic State
Almost 10 years ago, an al Qaeda emissary was sent to tell Abu Musab al-Zarqawi to tone down his terrorism. The journey, and its failure, gave birth to ISIS.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Shiite Militias Are Crashing the Mosul Offensive
Pro-Iran militias are looking to settle an old grudge in one of the Islamic State's strongholds in northern Iraq.
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Hashd fighters clearing sidestreets of ISIS fighters ahead of the column, Shirqat. Iraq’s ‘Good Sunni’
Yazan al-Jabouri, with help from Iranian weapons and U.S. airstrikes, built a Sunni faction of Iraq's Shiite militias. But the fight against ISIS won't be his last.
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US President George W. Bush(L) and French President Jacques Chirac stand side-by-side during a wreath laying ceremony at the American cemetery at Colleville-Sur-Mer, France, 06 June, 2004 on the 60th anniversary of the D-Day invasion on Omaha Beach. World leaders paid poignant tribute to the Allied forces who stormed the Normandy beaches in the D-Day landings 60 years ago to liberate Europe from Nazi occupation and end World War II. AFP Photo/Paul J.Richards (Photo credit should read PAUL J. RICHARDS/AFP/GettyImages) Bush, Chirac, and the War in Iraq
A heart-to-heart conversation between Bush and Chirac in January 2003 could have paved a much better way forward.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Archaeologists Just Discovered a Bronze-Age City in Northern Iraq
The war against ISIS hasn’t stopped archaeologists from digging in the cradle of civilization.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Coming Humanitarian Crisis in Mosul, by the Numbers
Iraqi forces are on the cusp of liberating Mosul from the Islamic State. And the international community is bracing for impact.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 SitRep: Election Day Choices; The Grim Accounting in Mosul
New Chinese Drones; Manila Walks it Back a Bit; And Lots More
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 SitRep: Kurds Move on Raqqa, Russia Allies With Kurdish Militias
Dunford Lands in Turkey; U.S. Green Berets Under Fire; And Lots More
