Iraq
The Price of 'Victory'
The war in Iraq is over … just not for the Iraqis.
BY MOHAMMED AL-DIYALI | DECEMBER 30, 2011
A Little Humility
If Iraq has taught us anything, let it be this.
BY JAMES TRAUB | DECEMBER 23, 2011
Exclusive: Iraqi Vice President: Maliki Is Becoming a New Saddam
An arrest warrant for Iraq's Sunni vice president just days after the U.S. troop withdrawal has sparked fears that the country may once again plunge into sectarian violence.
BY URI FRIEDMAN | DECEMBER 22, 2011
The Damage Done
The 10 big takeaways from America's adventure in Iraq are also clues to its uncertain future.
BY IAN LIVINGSTON, MICHAEL O'HANLON | DECEMBER 21, 2011
Don't Just Do Something, Stand There!
What should America do about the Arab Spring? Not much.
BY F. GREGORY GAUSE III | DECEMBER 21, 2011
The LWOT: Iraqi VP wanted on terrorism charges
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BY JENNIFER ROWLAND | DECEMBER 20, 2011
The Last Prisoner
The fate of a senior Hezbollah commander captured in Iraq raises questions about what the United States accomplished in Mesopotamia -- and the future of its shadow war with Iran.
BY MITCHELL PROTHERO | DECEMBER 16, 2011
What We Leave Behind
After nearly nine years of war in Iraq, moving out is a bigger job than you might think.
BY DAVID AXE | DECEMBER 16, 2011
Remembering Basra
Nine years ago, I drove into Iraq one spring morning. As we leave it's worth recalling: After all the angry commissions and self-serving memoirs, the war was always more complicated than it seemed.
BY SUSAN B. GLASSER | DECEMBER 15, 2011
The LWOT: Senate, House edit detainee provision in defense bill
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BY JENNIFER ROWLAND | DECEMBER 14, 2011
The Hawks' New Flight Pattern
Neocons blew off concerns about Iranian influence in Iraq in 2003. Why are they so obsessed with it now?
BY JAMES TRAUB | NOVEMBER 4, 2011
The FP Interview: Condoleezza Rice on Obama, “Leading from Behind,” Iraq, and More
The former secretary of state dishes on what the current administration gets right -- and what it gets wrong.
BY JOSH ROGIN | NOVEMBER 3, 2011
Welcome to the Shadow War
The pullout of U.S. forces in Iraq threatens to unleash a dangerous and deadly struggle with Iran and within the Iraqi army.
BY MICHAEL KNIGHTS | OCTOBER 24, 2011
The Ultimate AfPak Reading List
A guide to the most critical readings on Afghanistan and Pakistan.
BY PETER BERGEN | OCTOBER 6, 2011
We Did Mean Well
Peter Van Buren's account of the foibles of the Iraq PRTs doesn't tell the whole story.
BY STEPHEN DONNELLY | OCTOBER 5, 2011
The Zero-Sum Game
Listen up, Obama. By Jan. 1, there should be not a single U.S. troop remaining on the ground in Iraq.
BY DOUGLAS OLLIVANT | SEPTEMBER 30, 2011
Checkbook Diplomacy
In shopping for hearts and minds in Iraq, the State Department made some bizarre impulse purchases.
BY PETER VAN BUREN | SEPTEMBER 29, 2011
How the State Department Came After Me
For telling the truth about what I saw in Iraq.
BY PETER VAN BUREN | SEPTEMBER 29, 2011
Waiting for Bushehr
The long wait for Iran's first nuclear power plant is finally over. It's now online, but is it ready?
BY ALI VAEZ | SEPTEMBER 11, 2011
9/11 from Arab Shores
Ten years after the World Trade Center attacks, is 9/11 still a seminal moment or a historical footnote for the Middle East?
BY BORZOU DARAGAHI | SEPTEMBER 9, 2011
A Decade of Resolve
We've made some mistakes in the 10 years since 9/11, but today Americans are profoundly safer -- and Islamic terrorists are dramatically weakened -- as a result of the course we've charted.
BY JOSEPH LIEBERMAN | SEPTEMBER 9, 2011
Return of the Renditioned
A Libyan rebel commander claims he was captured and tortured by the CIA. Who else has surfaced from the murky depths of the war on terror's list of the condemned?
BY KATHERINE HAWKINS | SEPTEMBER 7, 2011
Mission Accomplished. Finally.
Ten years after 9/11, it's time for President Obama to finally call an end to America's adventures abroad.
BY BRUCE ACKERMAN | SEPTEMBER 7, 2011
7 Things You Didn’t Know About the War on Terror
From an attempt to negotiate with Osama bin Laden to a proposal to threaten to bomb Mecca, it's been a wild decade for the U.S. national security establishment.
BY ERIC SCHMITT, THOMAS SHANKER | SEPTEMBER 6, 2011
The Baghdad Syndrome
Eight not-so-simple steps to making sure that Libya doesn't repeat Iraq's mistakes.
BY LARRY KAPLOW | AUGUST 26, 2011
Ready for Day One
Meet the Libyan postwar planners who put the Bush administration's Iraq team to shame.
BY JAMES TRAUB | AUGUST 26, 2011
Stopping the Fifth Column
How to end a post-Qaddafi insurgency in Libya before it starts.
BY BRIAN FISHMAN | AUGUST 24, 2011
Interventionism Run Amok
Obama has just declared preventing mass atrocities to be a "core national security interest" of the United States. Americans, watch your wallets.
BY CELESTE WARD GVENTER | AUGUST 10, 2011
All Guns, No Butter
What the debt ceiling deal tells us about the Tea Party's grim vision of American power.
BY JAMES TRAUB | AUGUST 5, 2011
How much would a no-fly zone over Syria cost?
BY KEVIN BARON
Cuba's greatest export isn't cigars -- it's doctors
BY ELIAS GROLL
No, the Spanish can't be more German -- and other myths of the euro crisis
BY MICHAEL PETTIS
Dennis Rodman calls on Kim Jong Un to do him 'a solid' and release American detainee
BY URI FRIEDMAN
3 questions Obama's new AfPak envoy must answer
BY GAYLE TZEMACH LEMMON
Is there a relationship between more women in government and happier mothers?
BY ELIZABETH F. RALPH
Odierno: Sequestration leaves military unprepared for Syria
BY KEVIN BARON
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