The opening salvo of the Iraq war, watched by millions of Americans, ... It’s hard not to cry when remembering the final conversation I had with my Uncle Mahdi before he died outside his homeland.

Baghdad: Diplomatic sources in Baghdad revealed to Asharq Al-Awsat that Iraqi authorities were deeply concerned about sliding into the Israeli-Iranian war, which they considered “an existential threat ...

Twenty years ago, the United States went to war in Iraq to destroy Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction. Except for an arsenal of chemical-warfare shells and warheads, those weapons ...

I learned what a bomb sounds like before I learned how to write my own name. We lived in Tehran during the Iran-Iraq War in the 1980s, in a house with blackout curtains and tape on the windows. My ...

Iraq was in crisis before Israel and Iran started trading blows. Now, it’s next door to a conflict. In the days before Israel launched airstrikes on Iran, the State Department was preparing for ...

Two decades after the Iraq War, Delta Force operators Chris VanSant and Craig Palmer reflect on their time hunting Saddam Hussein, fighting terrorists and life after combat.

Retired Marine Corporal Josh Hisle, seen on the left in a video before he was deployed to Iraq, speaks with "Nightline" about the 20th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. ABC News ...

Before long, she had left Chicago for the 3rd Infantry Division at Fort Stewart, Georgia, and the people she came to know as "brothers and sisters" before heading off to Iraq in October 2008 ...

As for the legacy of the Iraq War, now 20 years out from the invasion and U.S. troops pulled out of Afghanistan in 2021, Thampi is learning to make peace with the past and hoping that policymakers ...

The U.S. invasion of Iraq 20 years ago gripped the entire nation. Today it is far from the minds of most Americans, though not for the veterans who served there.

The bill would also rescind the 1991 AUMF that authorized the Gulf War — but not the 2001 AUMF passed in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks that kicked off the war on terrorism.

Even before their Feb. 18 wedding day, the violence that is part of daily life touched them. Hussain was stabbed and shot during a robbery while working the night shift at a pharmacy.