Because you want to understand, but it can be really complicated. June 13, 2014— -- An Extremist Group Called ISIS Took Over Multiple Cities in Iraq Background: When the U.S. left Iraq, it was a ...

Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2005, 127 pp, $45. The History of Iraq is a Cliff’s Notes to Iraq’s past that, according to its foreword, seeks to provide “students and interested laypeople with [an ...

This is the first in a multiple-part series of episodes marking the 20th anniversary of the Iraq War, which began on March 20, 2003. When President George W. Bush announced the invasion of Iraq in a ...

BOSTON - Journalist Jill Carroll was back on U.S. soil Sunday, tearfully embracing her parents and twin sister after 82 days as a hostage in Iraq that she said gave her a deep appreciation for the ...

Dec. 15, 2006 — -- President Bush has spent the last few weeks engaged in complex briefings with senior military officers, State Department officials and outside experts as he tries to come up ...

Last week George W. Bush and John Kerry gave major foreign policy speeches, and I agreed with just about everything each man said, which means they probably didn’t say much of anything useful.

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President Bush’s promise that he will pursue a more effective policy toward Iraq has been put to its first major test, and failed. An American-British effort to revise the U.N. sanctions imposed after ...

Although most of the Senate has spoken in opposition to the president's troop build-up in Iraq, a formal resolution of disapproval may be difficult to achieve. Democratic leader Harry Reid may need 60 ...

Background: When the U.S. left Iraq, it was a country with a democratically-elected government and a U.S.-trained Army. But after the U.S. chased out Al Qaeda, remnants of the group reformed into a ...