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 ...

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 ...

Before advancing on Iraqis to its front, the TF had to deal with Ansar Al-Islam terrorists operating to their rear. By April 11, TF Viking and its Kurdish allies had captured Mosul, the third most ...

Attacks on US brands rattle Baghdad as anger over the war in Gaza surges Published: Jun. 07, 2024, 7:08 a.m. Iraqi security forces stand guard in front of Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant in ...

Before the US-led coalition’s bombing of Baghdad began, foreign journalists scattered and left the Al Rasheed. Abdallah El Binni, my War Hotels co-author, was in Baghdad in 2003 working for Abu ...

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

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 (AP) — 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 ...