Iraq War

In the center, Adaptive Training Foundation founder David Vobora between former President George W. Bush and House Speaker Paul Ryan during their visit to cheer on wounded warriors. Photo/Political Office of Speaker Ryan

Washington Secrets

Paul Ryan on mission to make sure ‘government doesn’t hurt’

Paul Bedard · June 12, 2017 12:16 pm

Memorial Day and Veterans Day each commemorate different people in the U.S. armed services. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Why you shouldn’t confuse Memorial Day and Veterans Day

Washington Examiner Staff · May 28, 2017 4:00 pm

The Iraqi Army Is Much Improved. But Challenges Lie Ahead.

Jonathan Foreman · May 11, 2017 10:22 am

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks at a joint news conference with Italian President Sergio Mattarella in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, April 11, 2017. Putin, speaking Tuesday after talks in Moscow with Italian President Sergio Mattarella, said the U.S. invaded Iraq based on false allegations that it had chemical weapons. (Sergei Chirikov/Pool Photo via AP)

Putin claims Trump is repeating Bush’s mistake in Iraq

Joel Gehrke · April 11, 2017 4:32 pm

Are Syria’s Chemical Weapons Iraq’s Missing WMD? Obama’s Director of Intelligence Thought So.

Mark Hemingway · April 10, 2017 3:45 pm

How Trump chooses to address this new reality in Syria will perhaps be the greatest test of his presidency. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Beltway Confidential

Will Syria be Trump’s Iraq War?

Mark Vargas · April 7, 2017 6:40 pm

The investigation stemmed from the complaints of two lower level intelligence analysts who said during 2014 and 2015, "senior intelligence leaders imposed a 'false narrative' on analysts and analytic leaders that Iraqi forces, with U.S. help, were performing well on the battlefield, while ISIL was struggling," the report said. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban, File)

National Security

Pentagon investigator: Islamic State intel was not distorted

Jamie McIntyre · February 1, 2017 5:35 pm

Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., and Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., took the lead on the letter to Trump. (AP Photos)

Lawmakers urge Trump to support Mattis’ exemption from ban for Iraqi interpreters

Jacqueline Klimas · January 30, 2017 8:46 pm

More than 76,000 oil and gas jobs were lost from February to June of 2020, during the heart of the pandemic, which caused a crash of oil prices.

National Security

Spicer won’t say whether Trump will take Iraq’s oil

David Brown · January 23, 2017 9:45 pm

Khizr Khan, the father of fallen Army Capt. Humayun Khan, says Jeff Sessions supports policies that are "not the American way." (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Khizr Khan urges Senate to reject Sessions

Kelly Cohen · January 9, 2017 9:37 pm

When James Mattis Gave Away His Dinner

Frances Tilney Burke · December 31, 2016 10:30 am

"ISIL terrorists are now trapped in Mosul. They're unable to resupply or replenish their dwindling ranks," said special envoy Brett McGurk at a White House briefing Tuesday. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

National Security

McGurk: Kicking ISIS out of Mosul will ‘take as long as it takes’

Pete Kasperowicz · December 13, 2016 6:43 pm