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Iraq

Iraq’s Protesters Become Parliamentarians

Policing Iraq: Legitimacy, Democracy, and Empire in a Developing State

Bin Laden’s Catastrophic Success

Stability in the Middle East Requires More Than a Deal With Iran

U.S. Foreign Policy Never Recovered From the War on Terror

The Death and Life of Terrorist Networks

When the CIA Interferes in Foreign Elections

Iraq Can Now Wrest Its Sovereignty From Iran

The Iraq War Paved the Way for Coronavirus Catastrophe

City of Black Gold: Oil, Ethnicity, and the Making of Modern Kirkuk

The Wounded Presidency, Part Two

Trump’s Strikes Risk Upending Iraqi Politics

The U.S.-Iraqi Relationship Can Still Be Salvaged

Silence Falls on Iran’s Protest Movement

Will Iran’s Response to the Soleimani Strike Lead to War?

The Death of the U.S.-Iraqi Relationship

Iraq’s New Republic of Fear

The Coming Emergency in Iraq

Leap of Faith: Hubris, Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign Policy Tragedy

How a Caliphate Ends

The Long Game in Iraq

Winning the Peace in Iraq

Stuck in the Middle With Iran

The Last War—and the Next?

Trump’s Iraq Strategy Is Foolish

Building the Nation: Missed Opportunities in Iraq and Afghanistan

The Kurdish Awakening

Is There Hope for Reform in Post-Election Iraq?

State of Repression: Iraq Under Saddam Hussein

Iraq’s Next War

The End of the Iran Deal Could Destabilize Iraq

Iraq and the Politics of Oil: An Insider's Perspective

New Hope for Iraq?

The Long Shadow of A.Q. Khan

How ISIS’ Strategy Is Evolving

ISIS Could Rise Again

The Bloody Split Within ISIS

Iran and Russia, Growing Apart

ISIS’ Intelligence Service Refuses to Die

Kurd Your Enthusiasm

The Clash Over Kirkuk

Mission Still Not Accomplished in Iraq

After the Kurdish Independence Referendum

Iran and the Kurds

How ISIS Is Transforming

ISIS’ Female Suicide Bombers Are No Myth

Why Iraqi Security Forces Are Promoting the Arts

Why Iranian Kurdish Groups Remain Politically Weak

What Iraq’s Kurdish Peshmerga Believe

How Saudi Arabia Is Stepping Up in Iraq

Iraq’s Shiites Test Iran

The Names of Jihad

Anbar’s Illusions

Russia’s Middle East Energy Diplomacy

ISIS’ Yazidi Genocide

The Struggle Over Sinjar

The Future of Iraq's Shiite Militias After ISIS’ Defeat

Debriefing the President: The Interrogation of Saddam Hussein

Land Grabs in Iraq

The Dangerous State of Iraq’s Rivers

The Women Who Escaped ISIS

Cracks in the Islamic State

Sinjar After ISIS

ISIS’ New Frontier

The New ISIS Insurgency

Modern Siege Warfare

The Overloaded Prisons of Iraq

Between Iraq and a Hard Place

From Tehran to Mosul

Iraq After ISIS

Mapping Shiite Opinion

The Downfall of ISIS

The Kurds of ISIS

Iraq and the Big Swindle

Outsourcing the War Against ISIS

Saddam and the Rise of ISIS

Sectarianism and the Protests in Baghdad

Sadr, the Kingmaker

Saddam Did Not Create ISIS

Reforming Baghdad

Does the Middle East Need New Borders?

Yezidis vs. ISIS at the ICC

ISIS and Genocide

Iran's Weak Grip

ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror

Academics in Foxholes

The Truth About Sectarianism

Iraq's Jerusalem

ISIS' Social Contract

How to Defeat ISIS

ISIS vs Special Ops

Iran's ISIS Trap

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