On any given day in Iraq, about 140,000 Iraqi soldiers are on duty. But some 1,000 are in jail, 2,000 are in the hospital or recuperating from injurie...
John Bruhns | Posted 10.16.2008 | Politics
For all those who will accept nothing short of "victory" in Iraq, please get on the same page as the rest of us: sending others into an immoral situation and expecting them to behave morally is absurd.
AP | KIM GAMEL | Posted 07.29.2008 | Home
BAGHDAD — U.S.-backed Iraqi troops sealed off Baqouba and staged house-to-house searches Tuesday as they began a new offensive in Diyala provinc...
Michael Shaw | Posted 07.09.2008 | Media
Last week, I thought there was something fishy about the photos from Amara, and now a new Time article bears it out.
AP | PATRICK QUINN | Posted 05.08.2008 | Politics
BAGHDAD — The leader of al-Qaida in Iraq, Abu Ayyub al-Masri, was arrested in the northern city of Mosul, the Iraqi Defense Ministry spokesman s...
Washington Post | Walter Pincus | Posted 05.04.2008 | Politics
U.S. commanders in Iraq are for the first time seeking private contractors to form part of the small military teams that train and live with Iraqi mil...
New York Times | MICHAEL R. GORDON | Posted 04.15.2008 | Politics
A company of Iraqi soldiers abandoned their positions on Tuesday night in Sadr City, defying American soldiers who implored them to hold the line agai...
AP | SLOBODAN LEKIC | Posted 04.13.2008 | Home
BAGHDAD — Iraq's government moved Sunday to restore discipline within the ranks of the security forces, sacking more than 1,300 soldiers and pol...
Chris Weigant | Posted 04.07.2008 | Politics
What would it take for America to tell Maliki that we aren't going to support the Iraqi Army in any military offensive?
Lionel Beehner | Posted 04.07.2008 | Politics
Only in the field of foreign policy can someone have so disastrous a record and be showered with medals, professorships, and endowed chairs at prestigious think tanks.
Chris Weigant | Posted 04.02.2008 | Politics
If only Maliki had waited two or three weeks, Petraeus and Crocker could have testified that everything was hunky-dory in Iraq, and gotten out of Washington unscathed.
AP | CHARLES J. HANLEY | Posted 03.29.2008 | Politics
Iraq's new army is "developing steadily," with "strong Iraqi leaders out front," the chief U.S. trainer assured the American people. That was three-pl...
Cenk Uygur | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
The core of the Iraqi Army is simply another Shiite militia. In essence, we are supporting one Shiite militia over another. Worse yet, we're supporting the militia with more ties to Iran.
AP | LOLITA C. BALDOR | Posted 01.17.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON — As security conditions improve in Iraq, the U.S. should be able to reduce forces at a slow but consistent pace beyond this summer, ...
Brian Williams | Posted 09.06.2007 | Media
The "who disbanded the Iraqi Army" blame game had me thinking back today to our first patrol into downtown Baghdad after the city fell. The images we saw along the way are permanently burned in my memory.
NY Times | L. PAUL BREMER III | Posted 09.06.2007 | Politics
It has become conventional wisdom that the decision to disband Saddam Hussein's army was a mistake, was contrary to American prewar planning and was a...
Chris Weigant | Posted 09.05.2007 | Politics
Watch Basra. Because as goes Basra may go the entire Iraq debate in Washington.
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Pro Publica | T. Christian Miller | Posted 10.24.2008 | Politics