Although he was not named in the Shafaq report, it appears Walai was referring to US Ambassador Steven H. Fagin, who assumed his duties as Chargé d'Affaires at the US Embassy in Baghdad in May 2025.

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Trump accepted that Iran was not Iraq. Few argue that our experiment of imposing a democratic government on Islamic nations ...

"New York Times" Washington bureau chief Elisabeth Bumiller on Friday's "Morning Joe" and discussed her latest piece, "Trump, Iran and the Specter of Iraq: 'We Bought All the Happy Talk'". JOE ...

U.S. airstrikes on Iranian nuclear sites sparked sharply divergent reactions. Those who fought in Iraq and Afghanistan have a ...

I’m a veteran of the war in Iraq. I remember what that debate was — at least there was a debate. We've had no chance to have a debate to present evidence to the American people, to see the case the ...

Iranian Kurdish dissidents have been watching from abroad for signs that the government in Tehran might falter after the ...

(THE CONVERSATION) After 12 days of trading deadly airstrikes, Israel and Iran confirmed on June 24, 2025, that a ceasefire is in effect, one day after President Donald Trump proclaimed the countries ...

The war led by the US and its “coalition of the willing” left Iraq in ruins, with hundreds of thousands of Iraqis killed, about 4,500 American soldiers dead, and the country destabilised by deepening ...

Col. Warren Stewart became the 37th commander of the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in a ceremony on a wind-blown soccer ...

For these veterans, the U.S. bombing of Iranian uranium enrichment sites in June and the Trump administration’s ...