Among the many topics and issues we have been covering lately, two seem to have risen to the top as far as impact and importance. Certainly the war in Iraq has been a big story in the news, but the ...

NPR's Scott Simon is joined by Edward Peck, former chief of mission in Iraq, and deputy director of counterterrorism programs in the State department. Peck has been outspoken in sharing his concern ...

NPR's Lynn Neary profiles the northern Iraq city of Kirkuk, 150 miles north of Baghdad. It sits atop the remains of a settlement dating to 3000 B.C. The city is a trade and export capital for produce ...

For those arguing against bombing Iran’s nuclear program, the Iraq analogy is a powerful one to make. Operation Iraqi Freedom is widely viewed as an expensive U.S. foreign policy blunder that ...

As the bullets fly outside, people scream for help from the bombarded streets around a makeshift medical clinic in downtown Fallujah. Approaching the building with blood pumping from a hole in her ...

But the 2003 photo was taken years before Cotton’s 2005 enlistment or 2006 deployment in Iraq. The insignia on the uniform of the man in the photo also does not match Cotton’s battalion, and a ...

Before and after U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to bomb three Iranian nuclear facilities on June 22, critics compared his actions to the months preceding and following the U.S. invasion of ...