I first got the opportunity to watch USAID work up close and personal in 2007, when I deployed to Iraq as commander of the ...

In late 2004, the Second Battle of Fallujah commenced. It was an American-led offensive during the Iraq War, with the ...

Chaos in Syria deepens as a newly formed Iraqi militia vows to defend the Alawites from alleged Hayat Tahrir al Sham (HTS)-led atrocities and Alawite militias escalate attacks on HTS-affiliated groups ...

The large presence of US ground forces has had little effect on Iraqi politics, or on the insurgency. The surge has redistributed insurgent activity but not suppressed it. Ironically, the violence ...

Baghdad, Iraq? Insurgents battled American troops in the streets of Baghdad on Saturday, killing a U.S. soldier in an ambush and gunning down four government employees in signals that the ...

Chris Kyle was so deadly with a sniper rifle that Iraqi insurgents gave the U.S. Navy SEAL the nickname "the devil of Ramadi" and put a bounty on his head. No dice. Kyle retired in 2009 as one of ...

And because the U.S. military was unprepared for the kind of fight it found itself in during the Iraq War, the lessons to be learned is that the Americans should not become so rigid on things like ...