Iraq war

Smoke rises from the Trade Ministry in Baghdad after it was hit by a missile during US-led attacks, March 20, 2003.
Military
An Iraq vet grapples with lingering toll of war
Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, author of the book, "A Stranger in Your Own City: Travels in the Middle East's Long War," in Istanbul, Turkey.
Conflict & Justice
Iraqi author Ghaith Abdul-Ahad on the ‘unbuilding’ of Baghdad
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell gestures during a lecture about business management and leadership in Madrid, Spain
Obituary
In the post-Cold War era, Colin Powell became the most ‘popular and influential’ US military leader, biographer says
White-gloved hand holds ancient artifact known as the Gilgamesh Dream Tablet.
Culture
Iraq needs to reclaim its cultural past to develop its future, art historian says
Iraqis put up a poster announcing the upcoming visit of Pope Francis and a meeting with a revered Shiite Muslim leader, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, right, in Najaf, Iraq, March 4, 2021.
Sacred Nation
Pope Francis’ historic trip to Iraq embraced by many as a welcome boost
A large, beige building
Foreign policy
US Embassy closure in Iraq would hand Tehran a ‘strategic victory,’ says former Iraqi amb to UN
Members of Iraqi security forces are seen in front of US Embassy during a protest.
Iraq lacks ‘national leadership, a clear vision and hope,’ says Iraqi businessman
The ruins of a bombed base in Iraq.
Conflict & Justice
US responds to deadly attack at Iraq base
Three men in suits stand with their heads bowed.
Commentary
Analysis: Trump’s reversal in Syria was a play to keep his base intact
Hadi Jasim was an Iraqi translator for the US military. Now he's a "global guide" at the Penn Museum in Philadelphia.
Arts, Culture & Media
This Philadelphia museum hired Iraqi and Syrian refugees as tour guides for its Middle East gallery
A mortar flies out of a tube
Books
A new book tries to help more Americans understand what it’s really like at war in Iraq and Afghanistan
Arts, Culture & Media
Commentary: Want Freedom Fries With That?
Arts, Culture & Media
Commentary: Pick Your Battle
Arts, Culture & Media
Cover Story: Video Games
Arts, Culture & Media
Iraq and the XBox
Arts, Culture & Media
Battlestar Iraqtica
Arts, Culture & Media
Battlestar Iraqtica
Arts, Culture & Media
Susan Sontag: Art That Means War
Arts, Culture & Media
Black 47
Arts, Culture & Media
Depicting Abu Ghraib
Arts, Culture & Media
Kimberly Peirce
Displaced Iraqi children at the Amriyat al-Fallujah camp in Anbar Province, Iraq, Jan. 3, 2018.
Conflict
Iraq accused of forcibly returning displaced civilians from camps to unsafe areas
Lawrence Davidson and Yaroub Al-Obaidi crossed paths in Iraq.
Arts
Ten years later, two men reflect on their very different experiences of wartime Iraq
President Obama announces complete withdrawal from Iraq by year’s end
War Resisters Support Campaign
Global Politics
US resisters to the Iraq War are living under threat of deportation in Canada
An employee works at strengthening the Mosul Dam in northern Iraq, in February 2016.
Conflict
Mosul Dam could be scarier than ISIS
Ibrahim Esmael Ibrahim at the train station in Idomeni, Greece. As a teenager, he worked as a translator with the US military in Iraq.
Conflict
An Iraqi translator for the US military is now stuck in Greece
Jason Torres and Daniel Fienco, "I Was There" participants, line up a shot for their film "What's Really Important"
Conflict
The grandson of ‘Old Blood and Guts’ makes film, not war
Major General Qassem Suleimani, who heads the Quds Brigade in Iran's Revolutionary Guards.
Conflict
Meet the most powerful man in the Middle East you’ve probably never heard of
Shiite fighters fire a rocket during clashes with ISIS militants in Iraq's Salahuddin province on March 1, 2015. Thousands of Iraqi soldiers and Shiite militiamen sought to seal off ISIS in Tikrit and nearby towns.
Conflict
The US is sitting out Iraq’s big battle in Tikrit — but Iran isn’t
Brian Williams
Media
Will several days off air stop the Brian Williams scandal?
Actor Bradley Cooper arrives for the premiere of the film "American Sniper" in New York on December 15, 2014.
Culture
How Americans fell in love with snipers
A fighter of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) holds a weapon while another holds a flag in the city of Mosul, shortly after the Islamic State captured the city. The flag reads, "There is no God but God, and Muhammad is the Messenger of God.
Conflict
The so-called Islamic State is even worse than you thought
PFC Justin Blue of the 3rd Platoon, Apache Troop, 1st Squadron, 75th Calvary Regiment, from the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault). He is taking a break while on patrol near the village of Qalandrakhel  a few miles outside of B
Conflict
Using a pencil, not a lens, to capture images of the war in Afghanistan
A soldier from the US Army's 173rd Airborne Brigade adjusts his gas mask prior to an air analysis mission near an oil and gas separation plant at the Baba Gurgur oil field outside northern Iraq's town of Kirkuk on May 3, 2003.
Health
The Army’s secrecy habit kept US troops from getting needed treatment after chemical weapons exposure
A demonstrator holds a banner with a picture of Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr during a protest against the entry of American troops into Iraq on September 26, 2014. The words on the banner read "No No America."
Conflict
A militant Iraqi cleric wants to fight ISIS without US help, and he’s far from alone
The UN's Fijian guard unit on parade in Iraq.
Conflict
Fijian peacekeepers in Iraq aren’t just a battalion — they’re a choir
1st Lt. Tim McLaughlin serves in Iraq, near Baghdad in April 2003.
Global Politics
A Marine who fought in Iraq reflects on the country’s challenges today
1st Lt. Tim McLaughlin serves in Iraq, near Baghdad in April 2003.
Global Politics
A Marine who fought in Iraq reflects on the country’s challenges today
Displaced demonstrators from the minority Yazidi sect gather during a protest against militants of ISIS in Irbil on August 4, 2014.
Conflict
A trench is all that stands between ISIS and some Iraqi refugees
A member of the Iraqi Special Operations Forces (ISOF) takes his position during a patrol looking for militants of the Islamic State, formerly known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), in a neighborhood in Ramadi, July 23, 2014.
Global Politics
Iraq is in serious trouble. Here’s how it got there
Global Politics
Iraq’s New Government: A Turning Point?
Global Scan
Spain may finally get to see a finished version of Gaudí’s famous church — in Finland
Business, Economics and Jobs
Sale of Controversial Security Firm Xe Securities Imminent
Blake Hall (left) in Iraq 2006/7
Conflict & Justice
‘It’s heartbreaking’ — A veteran reflects on the crisis in Iraq
The Iraq War in 2004, captured by Canadian photojournalist Rita Leistner
Conflict & Justice
New photos from Iraq trouble photographer who covered the last war
The Iraq War in 2004, captured by Canadian photojournalist Rita Leistner
Conflict & Justice
New photos from Iraq trouble photographer who covered the last war
A boy who fled from the violence in Mosul sits outside a tent at a camp on the outskirts of Erbil in Iraq's Kurdistan region.
Conflict & Justice
Iraqis are feeling increasingly desperate with nowhere to turn
A US air strike on a suspected insurgent hideout in Fallujah in 2004. It's been more than 2 1/2 years since the US carried out air strikes in Iraq.
Conflict & Justice
One former policy maker argues you can’t bomb Iraq without bombing Syria
A US air strike on a suspected insurgent hideout in Fallujah in 2004. It's been more than 2 1/2 years since the US carried out air strikes in Iraq.
Conflict & Justice
One former policy maker argues you can’t bomb Iraq without bombing Syria
Global Politics
Iraq may dominate the headlines — but Americans have other concerns
Global Politics
Iraq threatens to make the Middle East into a vast terrorist training ground
Iraq
Conflict & Justice
Iraq War veterans think their sacrifice has gone down the drain
Fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) stand guard at a checkpoint in the northern Iraq city of Mosul on June 11, 2014. Since Tuesday, black clad ISIL fighters have seized Iraq's second biggest city Mosul and Tikrit, home town of former
Conflict & Justice
Any US military action in Iraq must consider the country’s sectarian politics
Fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) stand guard at a checkpoint in the northern Iraq city of Mosul on June 11, 2014. Since Tuesday, black clad ISIL fighters have seized Iraq's second biggest city Mosul and Tikrit, home town of former
Conflict & Justice
Any US military action in Iraq must consider the country’s sectarian politics
Syrian refugees
Conflict & Justice
Syrians who once took in Iraqi refugees find the tables have turned
Arts, Culture & Media
Official end of combat in Iraq, but what’s next for Iraqis?
A resident gestures as he talks to a U.S. soldier from 2nd Brigade combat team, 82nd Airborne on patrol in Baghdad's Adhamiya district January 5, 2008.
Conflict & Justice
How wars end part I: Iraq
U.S. Marine Lance Corporal Michael Oliver Ray, on a search operation in Fallujah, Iraq in December 2004. An American offensive at the time came to be known as "The Second Battle of Fallujah."
Global Politics
For Iraq war veterans, the new fighting in Fallujah brings up memories and frustration
A boy holds up his Kalashnikov rifle on the streets of Ramadi, Monday. He's part of a tribal militia being raised to take part in the fighting between the Iraqi government and al-Qaeda linked militants. His militia appears to be on the government side at
Conflict & Justice
A former US military leader has advice for Iraq on fighting al-Qaeda in Fallujah