Kadhimi became Iraq’s prime minister on May 7, after five months of political deadlock in Baghdad, I argued his best chance of success was to fail fast. The only way to clean the Augean stables of Ira …
The U.S. Military Has Now Been Engaged In Iraq For 30 Years
If this history is any indicator, the U.S. military will remain engaged in and with Iraq in one way or another for at least the foreseeable future.
Mountain lovers wed above the clouds in Kurdish Iraq
Avid mountaineers Salar and Soma met while trekking in Iraqi Kurdistan, so it was only natural they would get married amid its majestic peaks, some 2,000 metres (6,500 feet) above sea level. After a …
Bush’s 2003 Iraq Invasion Forever Changed America And The World (For The Worse)
Every player of the popular video game Civilization knows to hit the save button before engaging in the risky, stupid invasion of foreign country. In the case of the 2003 invasion …
30 years after Iraq invaded Kuwait, veterans commemorate Americans killed in Gulf War
“A lot of guys gave their all, left home and were gone for a long time, proud to defend and protect our country,” said former Chicago Fire Commissioner Jose Santiago.
‘To Start a War’ author Robert Draper talks about the intelligence disasters that led Bush to invade Iraq
The New York Times Magazine writer talks with Business Insider about George W. Bush’s Iraq fiasco and what Washington still hasn’t learned from the war.
Three decades on, Iraq and Kuwait still haunted by Saddam’s invasion
Saddam sent his military, already exhausted by an eight-year conflict with Iran, into Kuwait to seize what he dubbed “Iraq’s 19th province.” The two-day operation turned into a seven-month occupation …
Iraq invasion of Kuwait: What Saddam Hussain did to Arabism is irreparable
An abandoned Iraqi Soviet-made T-62 tank sits in the Kuwaiti desert as an oil well at Al Ahmadi oil field is burning in the background, on April 2, 1991. Image Credit: AFP Kuwaiti politician and …
‘We feel hopeless’: Iraq says 560 killed in protests, as crippling power cuts spur new rallies
Iraq has been rocked by months of nationwide protests as thousands of Iraqi youth have taken to the streets to decry rampant corruption, poor services and unemployment. Security forces have used live …
Second former Unaoil executive jailed over Iraq contract bribe
A second former executive of Monaco-based consultancy Unaoil has been jailed in the UK for his role in a multi-million-dollar bribery plot to secure oil infrastructure contracts in Iraq after the fall …