Iraq

The article reviews why the United States has repeatedly failed to translate early battlefield success into lasting political outcomes in three recent Middle East co...

President Donald Trump told reporters during a July 14, 2026 Oval Office meeting with Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi that the United States no longer believes it ...

President Donald Trump told reporters the United States no longer believes it needs a military presence in Iraq and said the U.S. partnership will shift from militar...

U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) reported that a U.S. service member was killed July 18 in northern Iraq during a controlled detonation of unexploded ordnance recovere...

Iraqi authorities announced a series of anti-corruption operations that seized more than 825 pounds of gold, tens of millions of dollars in cash (reports cite about ...

In March 2023, 36-year-old Princeton graduate student Elizabeth Tsurkov, an Israeli–Russian dual citizen conducting field research in Iraq, was abducted on the stree...

Peter Arnett, a renowned war correspondent and Pulitzer Prize winner, has died at the age of 91. Arnett was celebrated for his fearless and firsthand reporting from ...

CENTCOM confirmed that on March 12 a U.S. KC-135 Stratotanker refueling aircraft crashed in western Iraq near Turaibil. Of six crew members aboard, four have been co...

The Department of Defense identified six U.S. service members killed when a KC-135 aerial refueling aircraft crashed on March 12 near Turaibil along the Iraqi–Jordan...

A U.S. KC-135 Stratotanker refueling aircraft crashed in western Iraq on Thursday afternoon. Of the six crew members aboard, four have been confirmed dead and rescue...

PBS NewsHour reports that the U.S. military identified a soldier killed while disarming an Iranian drone in Iraq as Sgt. Michael Emmanuel Swinton. The article states...

U.S. military forces carried out airstrikes in Iraq targeting headquarters and a residence linked to Iran‑aligned Shiite militia elements commonly grouped under the ...