ALTHOUGH IT IS beginning to recover, Iraq is still suffering from the wars of the past decades. In 2023 about 45 people a month died violently, according to Iraq Body Count, a Britain-based monitor.

Cheney dramatically expanded the use of White House executive power in selling and waging one of the most disastrous and ...

This Veterans Day, the nation honors more than 16 million men and women who have served in the U.S. Armed Forces. While many return with visible scars, countless others carry invisible wounds—mental, ...

Thomas Ricks is telling his colleagues about the skepticism he encountered when writing his Iraq war book, Fiasco. “When I first started working on it,” he says, “a lot of people said, ‘Why are you ...

A stunningly lyrical evocation of the marshes of southern Iraq and the people who call them home, this book follows the life of the irrigation engineer Jassim Al-Asadi. From his childhood in the ...

Stan Lake, an Iraq War Veteran, has published a book of poetry, “A Toad in a Glass Jar,” about his time in the war.

WASHINGTON -- In a shocking turnabout, the press secretary most known for defending President Bush on Iraq, Katrina and a host of other controversial issues produced a memoir damning of his old boss ...

Aug. 28 -- Anticipatory self-defense sounds like a political oxymoron and reads like ancient riddle: Can a person hit back before the first punch is thrown? In military terms, if a first strike is ...