In a Friday memo that trumps all other Friday memos, President Obama has told Congress that there are still threats in Iraq and has renewed the executive order of "national emergency with respect to ...

By Ahmed Tabaqchali, for the Institute of Regional and International Studies (IRIS) at the American University of Iraq, ...

On the surface, Iraq appears to have achieved a measure of stability. The country finally has a functioning government after a yearlong political vacuum. Terrorist violence has fallen to its lowest ...

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Twenty years after Iraq held its first election in the wake of the U.S.-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein and shook the Middle East, a nation home to the cradle of civilization and yet beset by ...

Sobchak is a retired Army Special Forces Colonel; Zais is a retired Infantry Colonel. Both are West Point graduates and authors of the Army’s History of the Iraq War. As we observe the twentieth ...

In an exclusive interview conducted ahead of fateful parliamentary elections, Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani outlines to Newsweek his efforts to transform his nation from a source of ...

ExxonMobil’s return to Iraq marks a major geopolitical shift, signaling renewed Western engagement. The U.S. oil giant’s comeback will center on developing the supergiant Majnoon oil field. Stronger U ...

Two decades ago, U.S. air and ground forces invaded Iraq in what then-President George W. Bush said was an effort to disarm the country, free its people and "defend the world from grave danger." In ...

Marking the 20th anniversary of the Iraq War means different things to the vets who served there. "All of our experiences were different," says Allison Jaslow, CEO of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of ...

The agreement will mean the end of the anti-ISIS coalition’s troop presence. The U.S. and Iraq on Friday announced an agreement to end the anti-ISIS coalition military presence in Iraq that over the ...