The new Iraqi PM is a status quo leader, but for how long?
One thing is clear: that if previous parliaments demanded the ouster of the US military, this one seems fine with the way things are.
One thing is clear: that if previous parliaments demanded the ouster of the US military, this one seems fine with the way things are.
Al-Sadr’s bid to stymie the political process has been foiled, for now. But the new prime minister comes with a new set of challenges.
CENTCOM appears to be in the middle of IRGC attacks against Kurdish groups blamed for fomenting protests. We ask again, what are we doing there?
Readers are stunned at what 12 months of COVID have done to US children. Imagine how a generation of Iraqis have fared under our wars.
After 24-hours of violence, his followers are leaving Baghdad’s Green Zone, but the fragility of the government is no less resolved.
A renewed agreement will ensure stronger ties in some areas, while setting into motion new challenges elsewhere.
Washington’s decision to take out Soleimani in Baghdad ruined its chances for playing a role in mitigating a serious crisis there now.
They sacrificed for their country in Iraq and Afghanistan but these individuals want you to reconsider whether they ever should have.
The radical Shi’a cleric has found a way to potentially spoil the system imposed by Washington two decades ago. What now?
Our record for improving conditions with military intervention is, while well-intentioned, riddled by failure. There’s a better way.
Like the third installment of the Stallone series, America is trying to reimagine itself while never acknowledging failures of the past.
For the last 20 years the US has treated the sovereignty of states as conditional, reserving the right to attack when it chooses.
Tehran vowed to purge American influence from the region. On that score, their record is decidedly mixed.
The armed groups serving as proxies for Tehran in places like Lebanon and Iran are losing their shine. Here’s why.
From the sinking of the Maine to Saddam’s WMDs, there’s usually a ginned-up event behind every destructive US war.
A new book finds that failure is baked in the cake yet the US insists on playing with fire again and again.
It may be too soon to erect a monument to a 20-year conflict that is ongoing and that many Americans still don’t understand.
Something is driving military men and women to suicide. It’s time to take stock of the tempo and deployments and figure out what.
We have to correct the widening disconnect between foreign policy decision-making and average citizens’ daily lives.
After a US outpost is struck again, reportedly by Iranian-backed militias, the DoD assures our forces aren’t going anywhere. This is folly.
A veteran war correspondent recalls the ignorance, poor judgement, exceptionalism, and hubris in all of our interventions.