Who will serve as the military advisers? U.S. Special Operations forces – likely Army Green Berets, Army Rangers and Navy SEALs – separated in teams of about a dozen. What will they do? They will be ...

Iraq’s current prime minister, Haider al-Abadi, took office in 2014. Hopes were high for Abadi, who installed a government with both Sunni and Kurdish politicians in key positions. (Abadi himself is ...

Here's some background information about the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal which took place during the Iraq war. Facts: Abu Ghraib prison was a US Army detention center for captured Iraqis from ...

The May 6 Lincoln Journal Star editorial headlined “Visitors see what they believe in Iraq” quoted my friend and former colleague the late Sen. Patrick Moynihan saying, “Everyone is entitled to their ...

One of the religious minorities in Iraq is the Yazidi. Throughout the Middle East, Yazidi number between 200,000 and one million. Per the US State Department, between 500,000 and 700,000 live in Iraq, ...

(Reuters) - A coalition led by former Prime Minister Iyad Allawi was running second in early vote counts on Sunday in a parliamentary election seen as a test for Iraq's tenuous democracy after years ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. "For me what is tragic, in addition to the tragedy of Iraq itself, is the fact ...

The moment of truth on Iraq is coming at summer’s end, when Lieutenant General David Petraeus is expected to tell the nation how long American forces must fight. For those who were listening, however, ...

(Reuters) - Radical Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, who fled Iraq some time in 2006 or 2007 after an arrest warrant was issued for him, has returned from self-imposed exile in Iran for the first time, ...

In March of 2003, the United States launched an illegal war of aggression against Iraq. The U.S. regime promoted that illegal war of aggression, starting well in advance, through the manufacture and ...

OCEANSIDE, Calif. - I am a Korean War veteran from Cedar Falls, and I just read a letter in the Courier by way of friends in Iowa. John Montgomery wrote a letter that was very well written, until ...