The United States military achieved every objective it set when it went to war in Iraq in 2003. Decapitation: Saddam Hussein was captured, tried and hanged. Air dominance: total, within days. Regime ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani, Prime Minister of Iraq, speaks during a press conference at the German Chancellery in Berlin. Bernd von ...

Dr. Ali Shuwetij cannot remember the last night no patients arrived in the emergency room of his small hospital in eastern Baghdad. Just two years ago, when the things were more normal, Shuwetij or ...

“We had no choice other than to leave because it was not safe for our children. We left everything – our clothes, our furniture, even our food.” More than 3 million Iraqis have been displaced across ...

The rise of the Islamic State (ISIS, ISIL, Daesh) certainly represented a failure of the Iraqi military, its intelligence service, and the state more broadly. But even at the worst of times, Iraqis ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Farah N. Jan, University of Pennsylvania (THE CONVERSATION) The United States military ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Now, consider Iraq more than 20 years after the U.S.-Iraq war. Iraq is still an ...

Now, consider Iraq more than 20 years after the U.S.-Iraq war. Iraq is still an authoritarian state governed by political parties with deep institutional ties to Tehran. Iranian-backed militias ...