While many in the country debate whether President Donald Trump has the legal authority to use the military against ...

The 1991 and 2002 congressional Authorizations for Use of Military Force (AUMFs) against Iraq have remained on the books as ...

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.

One of Iraq's biggest cultural events of the year started today - the Iraq International Book Fair. From Baghdad, NPR's Jane Arraf reports. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #1: (Speaking Arabic). JANE ARRAF, ...

The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, The C.I.A., and the Origins of America’s Invasion of Iraq; By Steve Coll Penguin Press; 576 pp., $35.00 Steve Coll’s riveting new history, The Achilles Trap: Saddam ...

May 3, 2006 — -- A growing number of college students have emptied their backpacks for a good cause. Instead of selling back their textbooks to the bookstore or letting them gather dust in their ...

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 ...

Steve Coll, The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America’s Invasion of Iraq (New York: Penguin, 2024). Was the Iraq War a product of mutual misperception by U.S. and Iraqi ...