Filed under:
- Stream
-
October 15, 2019
Joe Biden’s Iraq problem
The former vice president has a long, complicated, and some would say checkered history with Iraq. Here’s the full story.
-
November 1, 2016
In Iraq, the environment itself has become a weapon of war — again
It’s a tactic with a long, ugly history in the country.
-
September 12, 2014
Is Obama’s legal justification for the war on ISIS "a stretch"?
The problems with President Obama's claim that a 2001 law gave him the authority to bomb ISIS.
-
August 11, 2014
Three ways that oil matters for the crisis in Iraq
The latest US intervention isn't "all about oil." But it'd be wrong to pretend oil is irrelevant to the crisis in Iraq.
-
July 1, 2014
ISIS mocks Obama in Michael Bay-esque video
There's a totally unnecessary explosion and everything.
-
June 24, 2014
The skeptic's case for bombing Iraq
Most plans for airstrikes against ISIS are hopeless. Here's one that might actually work.
-
June 23, 2014
This chart shows Iraq's two-year slide into chaos
The current crisis has been brewing for a long time.
-
June 20, 2014
The real roots of Iraq's Sunni-Shia conflict
"There's a lot of people who place hope in this rebellion as a revolution."
-
June 20, 2014
Iraqis say their lives are better under ISIS
The terrorist group may be winning the crucial battle for hearts and minds in Sunni-dominated northern Iraq.
-
June 20, 2014
Why the Iraqi army can't defeat ISIS
How 7,000 Sunni extremists can keep rolling back a national military with 250,000 troops.
-
June 19, 2014
Obama just opened the door to airstrikes in Iraq
Obama is deploying US military advisers to Iraq. That's a big step toward strikes.
-
June 19, 2014
Kicking out Maliki won’t solve Iraq’s problems
Iraq's prime minister played a huge role in causing the current crisis. But removing him won't resolve the deeper issues fueling it.
-
June 18, 2014
ISIS surrounded Iraq's largest oil refinery
It turns out not everything in Iraq affects global oil prices. Here's why.
-
June 18, 2014
How ISIS could fall apart — and make the war worse
There's a very plausible way that Iraq's most vicious Islamist group could lose the vast amounts of territory they've come to control. But it's not clear that the conflict would get any less violent as a result.
-
June 18, 2014
Does America even have a Middle East strategy?
A former ambassador to Saudi Arabia lays out the contradictions in America's strategy — or lack thereof — in the Middle East.
-
June 17, 2014
Obama won't bomb Iraq — for now
An inside look at the administration's thinking on Iraq.
-
June 16, 2014
Do Americans really want a third Iraq war?
The new Rasmussen poll claiming that a plurality of Americans want to start bombing ISIS is probably wrong. For one thing, the question wrongly equates the group with al-Qaeda.
-
June 16, 2014
ISIS released horrifying photos of a massacre
They think that the photos will help them on the battlefield. Here's why.
-
June 16, 2014
The mess in Iraq proves Obama was right to leave
Invading was a mistake, and there's nothing the American military was able to do in years of fighting to resolve Iraq's problems.
-
June 15, 2014
"This is a real disaster for Sunnis"
What you need to know about the political divisions behind the ISIS crisis.
-
June 13, 2014
Iraq is Barack Obama's problem from hell
The rise of ISIS pits two of the Obama administration's most fundamental beliefs about foreign policy against each other.
-
June 13, 2014
The most important line from Obama's Iraq speech
"The US is not simply going to involve itself in a military action in the absence of a political plan by the Iraqis."
-
June 13, 2014
11 facts that explain Iraq's escalating crisis
Here's what you need to know to understand Iraq's crisis, and where it goes from here.