The formal end of the US military support mission in Iraq on September 30 will mark a major change in the relationship between Washington and Baghdad, shifting the emphasis from a US-led
Hussein Ali Saeed, an 81-year-old resident, has spent his entire life in Kirkuk, a city in northern Iraq renowned for its abundant oil reserves. As this retired Iraqi oil worker sees it,
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FATEFUL MISREADING OF SADDAM Gideon Rose, a Senior Fellow and deputy director of National Security Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations from 1995 to 2000, was appointed managing editor of Foreign
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As the world celebrates International Museum Day on Saturday, Iraq remains haunted by the poignant scars of looted antiquities in the wake of the U.S.-led invasion. Boasting an ancient civilization of thousands
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Forbes has produced an excellent report on keeping US troops in Iraq and Syria. The bottom line, despite appearances to the contrary, the US isn’t leaving either place anytime soon. If true, what about
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In the early morning of Friday, January 3, 2020, General Qasem Soleimani, the commander of the Quds Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, was on a special mission in Iraq, representing
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Tensions between Iraq and the United States are escalating after Washington gave the green light for its forces to respond to attacks launched by Iranian-backed Iraqi militias on U.S. military bases in
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In Warsaw last February, President Joe Biden condemned the lawless Russian invasion of Ukraine: “The idea that over 100,000 forces would invade another country—since World War II, nothing like that has happened.” One month
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An intergenerational, multiracial group of organizers demonstrated in Washington, D.C., on March 18, seeking to unite various sectors of the nation’s anti-war movement. Under the slogans “Peace in Ukraine—Negotiations not escalation,” “Fund
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by Jude As the sun rose over the barren Iraqi desert twenty years ago on the 20th of March, the winds of change were sweeping across the sands, bringing with them the
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Though 20 years have passed since the United States launched a blatant invasion into the sovereign state of Iraq, justice has not been done for Iraq and its people, many of whom
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