BAGHDAD -- A suicide truck bomb in downtown Baghdad killed 115 people and wounded nearly 200 others who were out shopping and celebrating early Sunday ahead of the holiday marking the end of Ramadan, security and medical officials said. The attack, claimed ...

THIS MORNING’S STRIKES IN IRAN looked like what Americans expect when their military is given specific orders and the time to plan: coordinated, intense, and precise. The targets were not random. They were the nervous system and connective tissue of the Iranian regime: leadership headquarters,

Trump has reportedly made no decision on whether to strike Iran.

After a short and successful war with Iraq, President George H.W. Bush claimed in 1991 that “the ghosts of Vietnam have been laid to rest beneath the sands of the Arabian desert.” Bush was referring to what was commonly called the “Vietnam syndrome.”

Since the suicide car bombing outside the Baghdad headquarters of the International Committee of the Red Cross last month, several international charities have evacuated their expatriate staff members from the Iraqi capital and suspended some of their ...

Pro-Iran Iraqi militia accuses US of bombing it, vows response against American bases. Kataeb Hezbollah blames the US for a strike that targeted an Iraqi military base that houses

A nighttime video showing a U.S.-led air assault on Baghdad at the outbreak of the Iraq war in 2003 has been miscaptioned online as showing Pakistan bombing Afghanistan more than two decades later.