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Barry McCaffrey, a retired U.S. army general and adjunct professor of international affairs at West Point, discusses past failings and future options for success in Iraq five years after the war be...
BAGHDAD, March 13 — The body of a senior Christian cleric was found Thursday in the northern city of Mosul, two weeks after gunmen abducted him there and killed three of his associates.
Plea...
Michael’s Comments:
The progress here in Iraq is genuine. Yes, our military is being worn thin, but we are winning the war on the Iraq front. And so, while I write these words from Mosul, I...
Guitar Heroes
Michael Yon
Mosul, Iraq 10 March 2008
Men crept in darkness to plant a bomb. They moved in an area where last year I was helping to collect fallen American soldiers from the battlefi...
Deborah Haynes is a writer paying her dues in Iraq. I’ve talked with Deborah on various occasions, and have added her voice to those I listen to about Iraq.
Ms Haynes writes for the Times of...
Torture equipment included: Drills, blow torches, chains hanging from the walls and ceiling, blood trails, saws, drills, knives, weapons, masks, and handcuffs. An execution site outside of building...
“And gentlemen in England now-a-bed
Shall think themselves accurs’d they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispi...
From Dr. Moayad, an Iraqi cardiologist in South Baghdad:
Many people in South Baghdad and other Sunni areas were upset when the Iraqi Prime Minster Nuri al-Maliki returned directly from London to K...
This last summer, many of you helped to send over 30,000 emails of support to Marines in Iraq.
Now, as if the Taliban and Al Qaeda, bad weather, and lack of support here at home weren’t bad...