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Ricks' Picks: Best Books About War In Iraq For more than seven years, Americans learned about the war from news reports. But between headlines, many also turned to books to understand the strategy ...
Trump accepted that Iran was not Iraq. Few argue that our experiment of imposing a democratic government on Islamic nations ...
The "Iraq Study Group Report" paperback could have been wrapped in a brown paper bag, its title scrawled in Magic Marker. It would still sell. This is a book, unlike trillions of others on the ...
American journalists and soldiers have published countless memoirs about their experiences in the Iraq War. But a new book by Ghaith Abdul-Ahad provides a radically different perspective: that of ...
When war comes in 2003 he, like many artists, has to abandon his profession. Upon his father’s death soon after that Jawad becomes a mghassilchi . But this time the bodies come mangled by war.
Iraq's annual book fair opens today in Baghdad. But even when indulging in their favorite diversion, for Iraqis, war is always in the subtext ...
Veteran journalist Chip Reid, who was embedded with U.S. forces during the invasion of Iraq in 2003, talks to combat veterans and their families about how the war changed their lives.
Iraq was also under an international economic sanctions regime, one that U.N. humanitarian aid coordinators had decried as destroying the country in concert with the previous war's destruction of ...
But the law that authorized the Iraq War remains on the books, a living relic of America's Forever Wars. It is past time that Congress repeals this outdated authority and turns the page on the era ...
Veteran journalist Chip Reid, who was embedded with U.S. forces during the invasion of Iraq in 2003, talks to combat veterans and their families about how the war changed their lives.