When the U.S. invasion of Iraq began, NPR's Mideast editor Larry Kaplow was a reporter in Baghdad. Looking back now, he writes that the signs and warnings of the chaos to come were all too clear then.

I was based in Baghdad as a journalist with Cox Newspapers and then Newsweek from 2003 to 2009. I'd already been to Iraq several times in the years before the war, starting in 1998, as a reporter ...

The problem, for both Iran and the Palestinian cause, is that the rest of the Middle East had already come to the same ...

A dozen masked men jump out of two SUVs and a white pickup and storm a KFC in Baghdad, smashing everything in sight before fleeing the scene. A few days earlier, similar violence played out at Lee ...

The night the skies over Baghdad were illuminated, the 24-hour news cycle took over CNN’s live coverage of Operation Desert Storm launched a new era in television news ...

WASHINGTON -- Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is intensifying his efforts to hide in Baghdad before the onset of war, U.S. officials said. Saddam went on television Tuesday, appearing in military ...

The largest F-16 operation in history had failed; the overwhelming anti-air defenses and the impenetrable smokescreens deployed around Baghdad had rendered the American efforts futile, forcing ...

‘Baghdad Messi’ Review: From Iraq Comes a Heartfelt Social Realist Drama Set During the Second Gulf War Kurdish-Belgian filmmaker Sahim Omar Kalifa’s second narrative feature expands the ...

As the United States joins Israel's bombing campaign of Iran, some have questioned whether the president has the authority to ...