Review: 'Dying City' is a mesmerizing look at the battles within

There are many ways of being a political playwright. Christopher Shinn's approach, centered on characters rather than on ideologies, is...

Iraq car bombings leave dozens dead

BAGHDAD — Car bombs around Iraq killed at least 65 people Monday amid the worst wave of violence in the country since U.S. troops...

Sword of division is poised over Iraq

BAGHDAD — Less than a year and a half after the last U.S. troops left, Iraq's political leaders are openly debating the prospect of...

Five killings at Camp Liberty in Iraq: Calculation or despair?

JOINT BASE LEWIS-McCHORD, WASH. — The court-martial of Army Sgt. John Russell concluded Saturday with a military judge asked to decide...

Court-martial opens for sergeant who killed 5 U.S. troops in Iraq

JOINT BASE LEWIS-McCHORD, Wash. — Army Sgt. John Russell opened fire on U.S. mental health workers at a combat stress center in Iraq...

Iraqi inquiries find excessive force in Sunni protest camp raid

BAGHDAD — Iraqi security used disproportionate force, including shooting unarmed civilians, during a raid on an encampment of Sunni...

Iraq shuts down 10 television channels

BAGHDAD — The Iraqi government ordered 10 predominantly Sunni Muslim satellite television channels to cease broadcasting Sunday,...

4 Iraqi soldiers killed at Sunni checkpoint

BAGHDAD — Four Iraqi soldiers were shot dead Saturday, the day after Sunni Arab tribes in the restive western province of Anbar...

Review: 'War on Whistleblowers' fails to fully sound alarm

Since 2002, filmmaker-activist Robert Greenwald has made a string of vital feature documentaries, including the trenchant exposés...

Iraq violence sparks fears of a Sunni revolt

BEIRUT — Security forces for the Shiite-led Iraqi government raided a Sunni protest camp in northern Iraq on Tuesday, igniting...

Army sergeant pleads guilty, describes killing 5 fellow servicemen

JOINT BASE LEWIS-McCHORD, Wash. — U.S. Army Sgt. John Russell pleaded guilty Monday to second-degree murder in the fatal shooting of...

Iraqi immigrant wins Goldman Environmental Prize

During his 30-year reign in Iraq, Saddam Hussein repeatedly plunged the country into war, even transforming an ancestral marshland some...

Iraq veterans remember the fallen on anniversary

FT. STEWART, Ga. — Angel Acevedo found the granite marker for his friend, Robert Stever, known to all as "Catfish."

Mothers aid military personnel in the names of their fallen sons

They didn't know each other before the war. But loss united them, and friendship helps sustain them.

Review: A disappointing 'Allegiance' goes AWOL

Set in 2004, against the backdrop of a National Guard unit being called up for active duty in Iraq, "Allegiance" is an intermittently...

Retired Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf dies at 78

Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf, who presided over the swift and devastating 1991 military assault on Iraq that transformed the Middle East and...

Kevin Powers' haunting Iraq war novel

The Yellow Birds

Review: David Abrams' 'Fobbit' is an impressive Iraq war satire

Fobbit

Fight club reawakens and channels veterans' warrior spirit

SAN DIEGO — Todd Vance — Iraq combat veteran, bar bouncer, and social-work major at a local university — is lecturing...

John Keegan dies at 78; military historian wrote 'Face of Battle'

John Keegan, a British military historian whose critically acclaimed books spanned ancient and modern warfare and included the bestselling...

Review: Absurd day for soldier in 'Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk'

Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk

Secret prison revealed in Baghdad

Hundreds of Sunni men disappeared for months into a secret Baghdad prison under the jurisdiction of Prime Minister Nouri Maliki's military...

McManus: An elusive victory in Iraq

With the final headlong withdrawal this month of U.S. troops from Iraq, President Obama fulfilled a campaign promise to end the war. But was...

Witnesses to devastation, and to their own luck

It was lucky for us that the suicide bombers struck first at two other hotels, and that the one who targeted our hotel was forced by...

Foreign interpreters hurt in battle find U.S. insurance benefits wanting

After the invasion of Iraq, the U.S. military discovered that rebuilding the country and confronting an insurgency required a weapon not...

Hope survived one Iraq bombing, but not the second

After I survived my first bombing, I said to myself, I won't see worse than this. Then I survived my second bombing...

Foreign workers for U.S. are casualties twice over

Rey Torres dreamed of a better life for his wife and five children when he left a neighborhood of wooden shacks and burning trash piles to...

Ron Paul: Strike against Iran would risk a repeat of 'useless' Iraq war

Ron Paul did it again. The libertarian-minded Republican separated himself from the pack of candidates at tonight's debate by urging...

At Ft. Bragg, Obama welcomes troops home from Iraq

President Obama celebrated the soldiers who fought the Iraq war on Wednesday, marking the fulfillment of a campaign promise to bring home...