"On the night of February 27, 1991, a tense silence settled over the war-torn skies above Baghdad. Mere hours before the impending ceasefire, two General Dynamics F-111F aircraft laden with mighty GBU ...

Iraq remains the last stronghold in the region that continues to serve as a base for Iranian-backed groups,” said Iraqi ...

Much of Iraq’s modern art vanished after the U.S. invaded. A show of Baghdad’s 20th-century modernists helps fill in the record.

In the first week of September 2025, Iraq’s Kataib Hezbollah concluded it had no option but to release Israeli-Russian ...

Israel and the United States delivered a blow to Iran. But it could come back stronger.

C ranes sprout above the Baghdad skyline. The shriek of electric saws echoes across the city. Under the heavy summer sun, workers lay a new pavement outside a chic fromagerie. Baghdad is enjoying a ...

Ahmed al-Shara has shifted shapes many times during his ascent from rebel commander to national leader. This week, he is ...

“Unlike the left, we don’t believe in erasing American history—we honor it,” Hegseth said after announcing the return of the Ezekiel sculpture. That claim is hard to square with Trump’s recent ...

A century ago, Syrian immigrants established “Little Syria” in Lower Manhattan. Many later moved to Brooklyn, where the community still thrives. For decades, Syrian New Yorkers have used the city as a ...

Many experts wrote off the battleship before 1991—but that year, they proved key to ensuring America’s decisive, rapid victory over Saddam Hussein’s Iraqi Army.

John Martinkus made his name reporting on conflict. He was one of the first journalists to cover East Timor’s brutal struggle ...

While the American people may have been ignorant of the foreign policy history of the 1990s to their detriment, and politicians—whether sincere or not—expressed ...