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Reports suggest that General Stanley McChrystal is going to call for a "surge on top of the surge," with the potential for thousands of additional US and NATO soldiers being deployed in Afghanistan.
BBC NEWS | Posted 09.15.2009 | World
The senior American commander in Iraq has told the BBC that he is concerned that the country will be forgotten, amid the current focus on Afghanistan....
Columbia Journalism Review | Tara McKelvey | Posted 09.13.2009 | Media
Thomas E. Ricks has a photograph of a general--Ulysses S. Grant, looking haggard and defeated in Cold Harbor, Virginia--on the wall of his office. His...
AP | DAVID RISING | Posted 09.11.2009 | World
BAGHDAD — Kurdish lawmakers demanded the government step up security in northern Iraq after a suicide truck bomb flattened a neighborhood in a s...
Foreign Policy | Posted 09.10.2009 | World
When my colleague and I sat down last April with Hamid, an Iraqi man from Baghdad, his trauma-induced stutter said as much as the words he spoke. Hudd...
AP | KIM GAMEL | Posted 11.08.2009 | World
BAGHDAD — Four U.S. soldiers were killed by roadside bombs Tuesday, the deadliest day for American forces in Iraq since combat troops pulled bac...
Reuters | Posted 10.17.2009 | World
BAGHDAD (Reuters) The number of civilians recorded killed in violence in Iraq shot up to 393 in August, its highest level since April, after a spate ...
Jamal Dajani | Posted 09.14.2009 | World
It is now apparent that the Iraqi insurgency has adapted and moved right back in. What's interesting in the new round of attacks is that no one has been claiming responsibility for them.
Jon Soltz | Posted 08.06.2009 | World
It's time to start putting pressure on the Iraqi government to settle their internal differences, and make clear that we're no longer going to be their crutch. This weekend, Biden did just that.
Firas Al-Atraqchi | Posted 07.31.2009 | World
The fireworks fired into the air and the pomp and circumstance of so-called Sovereignty Day cannot mask the grief felt by hundreds of thousands of Iraqis who lost loved ones in the past six years.
Jon Soltz | Posted 07.30.2009 | Politics
There haven't been any results in Iraq, either because President Obama hasn't tried hard enough, or because his efforts have failed.
Evan Derkacz | Posted 07.24.2009 | World
Today's feature on Religion Dispatches was written by the most eminent interpreter of the American liberal theological tradition today, Gary Dorrien. ...
Freddy Deknatel | Posted 05.23.2009 | Living
In Baghdad, their eldest daughter had two cars. Six years later, the Iraqi couple moves their mattresses out of the bedroom each night to sleep on the living room floor.
Jeremy Scahill | Posted 05.01.2009 | World
There is great reason to suspect that the timeline for withdrawal -- all troops out by 2011 -- announced in February by the Obama administration will prove to be a fallacy.
Don McNay | Posted 03.27.2009 | Business
Every bailout plan reminds me of an economic re-run of the Iraq war: There is a lot of panic. A hastily written plan sweeps through Congress without scrutiny. The plan is expected to "shock and awe" us.
Sahil Kapur | Posted 03.21.2009 | World
Although the president's goals for the region are commendable, he must carefully examine the larger strategy or Afghanistan might devolve into a hauntingly familiar quagmire.
Dahr Jamail | Posted 03.15.2009 | World
Today, 34-year-old Sheik Aifan Sadun may be the richest man in Falluhah, thanks to his alliance of self-interest with U.S. forces.
Harry Shearer | Posted 03.12.2009 | World
It's neat that Petraeus should pause to remember history at this juncture, after he's helped perpetuate an Iraqi adventure that completely ignored history in the same part of the world.
David Quigg | Posted 02.21.2009 | Media
As Andrew Sullivan noted in the earliest hours of the Obama presidency, It only took Michael Goldfarb twenty-two minutes to start blaming Obama for Iraq.
Military.com | Posted 02.02.2009 | World
We got through Christmas without having NORAD accidentally blow Santa out of the sky, but don't let your guard down yet. While visions of sugarplums d...
Heather Robinson | Posted 01.25.2009 | Business
Based on his experiences lately, Adam Ginsberg believes Obama's election has spurred the masses, not only in the U.S. but around the world, to regain their faith in the U.S. and, more importantly, in their own potential.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 12.24.2008 | Media
The Times it seems, has a regrettably short memory, to afford this man the opportunity to burnish his credibility on their hallowed pages. But readers should not be fooled: Ahmad Chalabi has no credibility.
Andy Borowitz | Posted 10.15.2008 | Politics
In what his aides are hoping could be a "game-changer" in advance of tonight's debate, McCain today expressed a strong vote of confidence in the marriage between Madonna and Guy Ritchie.
Jamal Dajani | Posted 11.15.2008 | Politics
Many Afghans working for the Afghan security forces are now switching sides and are now defecting to the Taliban. Guess who trained many of them? Blackwater!
Amitai Etzioni | Posted 11.08.2008 | Politics
McCain never comes clean and explains that he has vastly watered down what he considers a victory.
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James Denselow | Posted 09.21.2009 | World