Iraq

A houthi supporter carries a weapon during a protest against USA and Saudi Arabia calling on the end of war in Yemen, a day after the truce was renewed in Sanaa.

Biden’s trip to Saudi Arabia is a chance to end the war in Yemen

Tuesday, June 28, 2022

Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic (R) listens to NATO Supreme Allied Commander General Wesley Clark (L) during talks in Belgrade late January 19. General Clark held crisis talks with Milosevic on Tuesday but made no progress of softening its policy on Kosovo, diplomatic sources said. Clark said the visit to Belgrade to see Milosevic was not a failure and that the meeting accomplished what it set out to do.PEK/

America’s real deterrence problem

Melanie W. Sisson

Wednesday, June 15, 2022

Ibrahim Kalin, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan's spokesman and chief foreign policy adviser, meets with Finnish delegation led by the State Secretary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Jukka Salovaara, amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine, in Ankara, Turkey May 25, 2022. Presidential Press Office/Handout via REUTERS

Turkey’s threat to derail Swedish and Finnish NATO accession reraises the Kurdish question

Friday, June 3, 2022

Iraqi Shi'ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr shake hands with Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi in Najaf, Iraq January 6, 2022. REUTERS/Alaa Al-Marjani

Muqtada al-Sadr’s alliance: An opportunity for Iraq, the US, and the region

Tuesday, May 17, 2022

Members of the Iraqi predominantly Shia Muslim Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) parade symbolic coffins at Baghdad's Tahrir Square during a rally organized to mark the second anniversary of the United States airstrikes that targeted weapons depots and command centres of the Iran-backed Hezbollah Brigades. The targeted paramilitary group, which constitutes part of the PMF, suffered dozens of casualties in the attacks that took place in Al-Qa'im, an Iraqi town located near the Syrian border. 12/29/2021, Ameer Al Mohammedaw/dpa

New vulnerabilities for Iraq’s resilient Popular Mobilization Forces

Ranj Alaaldin and Vanda Felbab-Brown

Thursday, February 3, 2022

Iraqi Shi'ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr speaks after preliminary results of Iraq's parliamentary election were announced in Najaf, Iraq October 11, 2021. REUTERS/Alaa Al-Marjani

Muqtada al-Sadr’s problematic victory and the future of Iraq

Thursday, October 28, 2021

U.S. Secretary of Defense Richard Cheney, General Colin Powell, Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff and General Norman Schwarzkopf, Commander, U.S. Central Command, stand during an award ceremony prior to the Welcome Home parade honoring the coalition forces of Desert Storm, in an undated file photograph in New York City, U.S. SSgt. Charles Regne/U.S. Army/Handout via REUTERS.

Remembering Colin Powell and a pivotal moment before the Gulf War

Monday, October 18, 2021

U.S. President George W. Bush answers questions from the press aboutIraq with Vice President Richard Cheney (L) looking on, during ameeting with Congressional leaders at the White House, September 18,2002. The president said Saddam Hussein "won't fool anybody" with hispromise to admit weapons inspectors into his country. REUTERS/LarryDowningLSD/HB

9/11 and Iraq: The making of a tragedy

Friday, September 17, 2021

Nelson Mandela, Shibley Telhami, and Jehan Sadat at the Sadat Lecture at the University of Maryland at College Park, November 14, 2001.

September 11 and America’s response through the eyes of Nelson Mandela

Shibley Telhami

Thursday, September 9, 2021

File photo dated March 25, 2003 of United States President George W. Bush (R) speaks next to US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld (C) and US Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz (L) during a visit at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia. Donald Rumsfeld, the acerbic architect of the Iraq war and a master Washington power player who served as US secretary of defense for two presidents, has died at the age of 88. Photo by Alex Wong/Pool via CNP/ABACAPRESS.COM

Reflections on the long-term repercussions of September 11 for US policy in the Middle East

Itamar Rabinovich

Tuesday, September 7, 2021