The aftermath of the 9/11 attacks on the United States prompted numerous counterinsurgency operations across various theaters ...

Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani announced on Friday that security forces had arrested a group of former officers ...

BAGHDAD — Iraq's National Security Agency said Friday ... execution of a prominent Shiite cleric and his sister during Saddam Hussein ’s brutal crackdown on religious opposition.

The premise of aiming to affect, influence and control will and perception must be the key to a strategy of shock and awe.

His opposition intensified following the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran, which heightened Saddam’s fears of a Shiite-led uprising in Iraq. In 1980, as the government moved against Shiite ...