The Bush administration is big on labels. You might say they are geniuses at sloganeering. Remember the Clean Skies Initiative, that actually increased air pollution? How about No Child Left Behind, ...

Nouri al-Maliki let ISIS take over a third of Iraq in 2014. He spent years in the political wilderness, but now he is angling for a third term as prime minister.

Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. To shift the focus further east for a few minutes, we turn today to that other Middle East conflict, Iraq, and ...

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- America's hand-wringing over whether the violence in Iraq amounts to a civil war, while on the surface a semantic distinction, mirrors deeper divisions over how far the United States ...

WASHINGTON — The top American commander in the Middle East told a Senate panel yesterday that escalating sectarian violence in Iraq could propel the country toward a civil war. The commander of the ...

WASHINGTON – Dealing with a civil war in Iraq would be the responsibility of Iraq’s own security forces, at least initially, Defense Secretary Rumsfeld told Congress yesterday. Testifying alongside ...

BAGHDAD, Iraq — A car bomb killed six people Saturday near a Shiite shrine south of Baghdad, and the death toll from the deadliest attack of the year rose to nearly 90. A senior official warned Iraq ...

As the U.S. military struggles against persistent sectarian violence in Iraq, military officers and security experts find themselves in a vigorous debate over an idea that just months ago was largely ...