In other words, the U.S. would fight another major insurgency in the Middle East. It would be the battle of Fallujah on steroids. The Gazan population is six times greater than that Iraqi city was in ...

The fall of Bashar Assad in Syria has led Iran-allied factions in neighboring Iraq to reconsider their push for U.S. forces ...

"Following the withdrawal, Iraq will move towards bilateral security cooperation with key international partners, including ...

And because the U.S. military was unprepared for the kind of fight it found itself in during the Iraq War, the lessons to be learned is that the Americans should not become so rigid on things like ...

BAGHDAD (AP) — The fall of Bashar Assad in Syria has led Iran-allied factions in neighboring Iraq to reconsider their push ...

Take post-Saddam Hussein Iraq as a case in point ... Only with a radically different and better resourced military strategy under Gen. David Petraeus — combined with the equally important ...

Amy McGrath, a former fighter pilot and a combat veteran, is a retired lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Marine Corps. Michael O ...

While ostensibly aimed at restoring order, these operations have fueled further sectarian tensions, with reports of ...

Saddam Hussein had been Iran’s deadliest enemy, and a shared hostility toward him could have brought the US and Iran together for a common cause. The US took military action in 2003 partly to bring ...

The picture of King Hussein of Jordan next to Saddam at the moment of launching an Iraqi military operation against Iran may be one of the most famous pictures of Arab leaders. King Hussein also ...

Every war has its battles for the cities and in 2003 as US forces, aided predominantly by the United Kingdom, invaded Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, planners in Washington knew that at some point their troops ...