Iraq: Still Too Many Unknown Unknowns
If last week's fighting in Baghdad is a precursor of a more violent stand-off to come, then the US may find its smooth exit from the country rudely interrupted.
If last week's fighting in Baghdad is a precursor of a more violent stand-off to come, then the US may find its smooth exit from the country rudely interrupted.
Jon Soltz | Posted 12.18.2008 | Politics
Diplomacy is as important for keeping Iraq stable as it is for making sure that US troops are not targets of attacks by insurgents, or caught in the crossfire of an explosion of sectarian violence, as we begin to pull back.
Stephen Zunes | Posted 06.12.2009 | Politics
If Obama expects to defeat John McCain, who indeed has more foreign policy experience, he must be more willing to challenge his opponent's record.
Lawrence Korb | Posted 04.24.2008 | Politics
Despite the president's assertion that the withdrawal of some troops represents a "return on success" from his "surge" policy, he is merely making a virtue out of necessity.
Reuters | Waleed Ibrahim and Mohammed Abbas | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
A conference to reconcile Iraq's warring political groups began to unravel even before it got under way on Tuesday, with the main Sunni Muslim Arab bl...
Washington Post | Amit R. Paley and Zaid Sabah | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
Two former high-ranking Shiite government officials charged with kidnapping and killing scores of Sunnis were ordered released Monday after prosecutor...
ABC News | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
The US military has acknowledged that it fired on a group of its anti-Qaeda allies in Iraq in an attack the leader of the group said killed three peop...
AP | KIM GAMEL | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
BAGHDAD — Iraq's prime minister said Friday that U.S. and Iraqi troops have chased al-Qaida in Iraq out of Baghdad in the year since a security ...
NY Times | SOLOMON MOORE and RICHARD A. OPPEL | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
American-backed Sunni militias who have fought Sunni extremists to a standstill in some of Iraq's bloodiest battlegrounds are being hit with a wave of...
AP | DIAA HADID | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
Turkey has the right to defend itself against Kurdish rebels based in Iraq but must make sure it does not destabilize its neighbor, the U.S. ambassado...
James Denselow | Posted 05.08.2009 | World