WASHINGTON: Despite dire U.S. warnings and fears of a humanitarian disaster, U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration has little leverage to stop Russia,...
WASHINGTON: The U.S. special envoy is back. The Trump administration, which had steered away from appointing high-level diplomats to focus on particular world...
WASHINGTON: Russia typically brushes off new U.S. sanctions. Not this time. The Trump administration announcement of export restrictions in response to...
BAGHDAD: On a desolate highway in northern Iraq last week, nine federal police officers packed into a large SUV were stopped at a checkpoint they had never...
BAGHDAD: Iraq has detained or imprisoned at least 19,000 people accused of connections to Daesh (ISIS) or other terror-related offenses, and sentenced more...
MOSUL, Iraq: For nearly four kilometers along the western bank of the Tigris River, hardly a single building is intact. The warren of narrow streets of...
MOSUL: The price Mosul’s residents paid in blood to see their city freed was between 9,000 and 11,000 dead, a civilian casualty rate nearly 10 times higher...
AL-QAIM, Iraq: The U.S.-led coalition’s newest outpost in the fight against Daesh (ISIS) is in a dusty corner of western Iraq near the border with...
CHABAISH, Iraq: In the southern marshlands of Iraq, Firas Fadl steers his boat through tunnels of towering reeds, past floating villages and half-submerged...
NAJAF, Iraq: In the wake of victory against Daesh (ISIS) in Mosul, Iraq’s political, religious and military leaders are debating the future of the country’s...
MOSUL, Iraq: For one Iraqi lieutenant, the fight against Daesh (ISIS) in Mosul has been a slow, methodical quest for revenge. For three years, he has hunted...
IRBIL, Iraq: Human Rights Watch Thursday condemned videos circulating on social media purportedly showing Iraqi forces killing and beating men suspected of...
MOSUL, Iraq: “Don’t stop!” the Iraqi special forces lieutenant yelled as a wave of fleeing civilians trudged past his position in Mosul’s Old City in the...
MOSUL, Iraq: With the fight for Mosul in its final stage Monday, Daesh (ISIS) militants sent female suicide bombers hidden among fleeing civilians, while...
MOSUL, Iraq: The day after Iraq’s prime minister declared an end to Daesh’s (ISIS) caliphate, U.S. Army Col. Pat Work and a small team of about a dozen...
FALLUJAH, Iraq: Even as Iraqi forces in Mosul close in on the last pockets of urban territory still held by Daesh (ISIS), residents of Fallujah in...
BEIRUT: As the U.S.-led coalition ratchets up operations in Syria, there are concerns that it will result in a rerun of what happened in Iraq, where $1...
BAGHDAD: While Iraq’s conventional military has been slowly clearing Daesh (ISIS) from inside Mosul’s complex urban terrain, Iraq’s Iran-backed Shiite...
MOSUL, Iraq: Half a dozen units of Daesh (ISIS) fighters holed up in western Mosul began their morning radio checks at just after 4 a.m. It was still dark and...
BAGHDAD: Just over 10 years ago, Qasim al-Araji was being arrested a second time by American forces in Iraq. The charges were serious: smuggling arms used to...
BAGHDAD: Daesh (ISIS) and Al-Qaeda-linked militants are quickly moving to drum up outrage over a sharp spike in civilian casualties said to have been caused...
MOSUL, Iraq: Hours after Mosul’s municipal complex was declared liberated by the country’s top military commanders and U.S.-led coalition officials, the...
MOSUL: “We have wounded!” the men shouted from the roadside. Two soldiers, bleeding, were being bandaged beside their smoking vehicle on the side...
SOUTH OF MOSUL, Iraq: U.S. Army Lt. Col. James Browning juggled phone calls on an overstuffed sofa in a small village south of Mosul. His counterparts in the...
MOSUL, Iraq: First the tiny drones buzz overhead to observe Iraqi soldiers. Then, Daesh’s (ISIS) flying machines return to drop a small explosive device to...