I first got the opportunity to watch USAID work up close and personal in 2007, when I deployed to Iraq as commander of the ...

Trump shockingly claimed that the U.S. would take "long-term ownership" of a depopulated Gaza Strip and transform it into a new Riviera. Despite widespread condemnation for issuing a proposal ...

In late 2004, the Second Battle of Fallujah commenced. It was an American-led offensive during the Iraq War, with the ...

The large presence of US ground forces has had little effect on Iraqi politics, or on the insurgency. The surge has redistributed insurgent activity but not suppressed it. Ironically, the violence ...

Chaos in Syria deepens as a newly formed Iraqi militia vows to defend the Alawites from alleged Hayat Tahrir al Sham (HTS)-led atrocities and Alawite militias escalate attacks on HTS-affiliated groups ...

In the summer of 2003, there was a senseless debate about whether or not a guerilla war or an insurgency was beginning in Iraq. Today, we argue over whether or not there is a civil war.

Drone strikes killed a Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) commander and two fighters in northern Iraq on Thursday, Kurdish ...

Four people were killed on Monday in an air strike blamed on Turkey in Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region, Kurdish sources said.