Middle East
If a Tree Falls in Baghdad…
Ten years after the Iraq war, almost everything in this country -- from security to its place in the region -- is still in play.
BY JANE ARRAF | MARCH 19, 2013
The Iraq Syndrome
A decade later, what lessons haven't we learned from the war in Iraq that we should?
MARCH 19, 2013
The First Step
Why America needs to beat itself up a little more over the Iraq War.
BY MICHAEL A. COHEN | MARCH 19, 2013
The 10 Commandments of Visiting Israel
The old commandments helped the Israelites survive the desert. A set of new ones may help Obama survive the Israelis.
BY OREN KESSLER | MARCH 19, 2013
What Obama Must Do in Israel
It’s time to stop focusing on personalities and get down to the more important business of identifying common interests.
BY SAMUEL R. BERGER | MARCH 19, 2013
So You Want to Be a Peacemaker?
Here are 11 lessons to keep in mind if you want to have any hope of solving the Middle East's most intractable conflict.
BY AARON DAVID MILLER | MARCH 19, 2013
The Secret Surge Debate
Behind closed doors, a newly revealed transcript shows, the Bush administration was much more deeply divided about the way forward in Iraq than it let on in public.
BY MICHAEL R. GORDON | MARCH 18, 2013
Once Upon a Time in Baghdad
71 years before the war that nearly destroyed it.
BY MARYA HANNUN | MARCH 18, 2013
The Illogic of Iraq
Explaining one of history's most egregious strategic non sequiturs.
BY JOHN ARQUILLA | MARCH 18, 2013
No Books Were Cooked
Mistakes were made in the lead-up to war in Iraq ten years ago. But fabricating intelligence on weapons of mass destruction to serve policy wasn’t one of them.
BY CHARLES DUELFER | MARCH 18, 2013
Unilateral Peace
It's time for Israel to move toward a two-state solution, alone if necessary.
BY AMOS YADLIN, GILEAD SHER | MARCH 18, 2013
To COIN or Not?
A decade later, what lessons haven't we learned from the war in Iraq that we should?
MARCH 18, 2013
Lost in the Desert
What does the Obama administration make of Egypt's Mohamed Morsy? Not much. But they've still got to figure out how to work with him.
BY JAMES TRAUB | MARCH 15, 2013
Iraq Roundtable Participants
MARCH 15, 2013
Ends and Means
A decade later, what lessons haven't we learned from the war in Iraq that we should?
MARCH 15, 2013
The Execution of the Saudi Seven
Saudi Arabia's farcical justice system condemned seven young men to death this week, and the world remained silent.
BY ALI ALAHMED | MARCH 15, 2013
Kill Lists and Victoria's Secret
A Marine's candid, and often funny, reflections on life during wartime. — The Iraq War Diaries of Lt. Tim McLaughlin
MARCH 14, 2013
Tearing Down Saddam
'This place is pandemonium.' — The Iraq War Diaries of Lt. Tim McLaughlin
MARCH 14, 2013
Hot Pants
A visit to ousted Yemeni leader Ali Abdullah Saleh’s new presidential museum.
BY ADAM BARON | MARCH 14, 2013
A Personal History, An American History
How one Marine's diary helps us understand the Iraq war.
BY PETER MAASS | MARCH 14, 2013
My Handwritten War
An eyewitness to history, from the 9/11 attacks to the toppling of Saddam.
BY TIM MCLAUGHLIN | MARCH 14, 2013
Learning Curve
'Never Again' is the wrong lesson to draw from the Iraq war.
BY JAMES DOBBINS | MARCH 13, 2013
Israel's Demographic Destiny
Israel can be Jewish, democratic, or a state in control of the Palestinian territories. Choose two.
BY AARON DAVID MILLER | MARCH 13, 2013
How the Muslim Brotherhood Hijacked Syria's Revolution
The shadowy Islamist group that was all but destroyed in the 1980s is ruining the uprising against Bashar al-Assad.
BY HASSAN HASSAN | MARCH 13, 2013
The Rough Guide to Iraq
A journalist's strange journey on the road to Baghdad.
BY PETER MAASS | MARCH 12, 2013
The Iraq War That Might Have Been
Ten years on, newly published secret documents shed new light on potential turning points the United States missed.
BY MICHAEL R. GORDON, BERNARD E. TRAINOR | MARCH 12, 2013
How Not to Repair a Broken Pot
The lesson of Iraq isn't that American intervention only makes things worse; it's that there's a smarter way to do it.
BY JAMES TRAUB | MARCH 8, 2013
Inside Saudi Arabia's new crackdown on dissent
5 great reads for your weekend
BY RACHEL WILKINSON
EU protects citizens from dangers of unregulated olive oil bottles
BY ALICIA P.Q. WITTMEYER
British Foreign Office to drunk Britons everywhere: No, we can't translate that tattoo for you
BY ELIAS GROLL
Why do some groups choose nonviolence?
BY JOSHUA E. KEATING
The Army is looking for a few good drone backhoes
BY JOHN REED
Meet the movement standing up to Libya's extremists
BY MOHAMED ELJARH
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