Iraq War

McCarthy’s omnibus threat fades as Congress weighs ending ‘forever wars’

David Sivak · March 21, 2023 3:50 pm

Beltway Confidential

The Iraq War looks better with time

Michael Rubin · March 20, 2023 6:00 am

FILE - In this 2005 file photo, a workman slides a dustmop over the floor at the Central Intelligence Agency headquarters in Langley, Va., near Washington. Fifteen CIA employees were found to have committed sexual, racial or other types of harassment last year, including a supervisor who was removed from the job after engaging in "bullying, hostile behavior," and an operative who was sent home from an overseas post for inappropriately touching female colleagues, according to an internal CIA document obtained by The Associated Press. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Beltway Confidential

We still haven’t addressed the Iraq War’s real intelligence failure

Michael Rubin · March 18, 2023 9:50 am

In this Tuesday, Jan. 25, 2011 photo, U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Marc Krugh, left, from the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment, looks on as a comrade peers through the scope on his weapon during a patrol near Iskandariyah, 30 miles (50 kilometers) south of Baghdad. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Twenty years after the US invasion of Iraq

Byron York · March 17, 2023 2:10 pm

Magazine - Features

Saddam Hussein was there too

Brian Stewart · March 17, 2023 10:05 am

What is the most important lesson of the Iraq War?

Washington Examiner writers and contributors · March 17, 2023 9:45 am

What we got right in Iraq

Quin Hillyer · March 17, 2023 9:30 am

What we got wrong in Iraq

John Agresto · March 17, 2023 9:00 am

National Security

Senate overcomes first hurdle to repeal Iraq and Gulf war authorizations

Cami Mondeaux · March 16, 2023 5:16 pm

In this Tuesday, Jan. 25, 2011 photo, U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Marc Krugh, left, from the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment, looks on as a comrade peers through the scope on his weapon during a patrol near Iskandariyah, 30 miles (50 kilometers) south of Baghdad. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Courage, Strength & Optimism

Biden administration supports repealing authorization for wars in Iraq

Mike Brest · March 16, 2023 11:23 am

Beltway Confidential

Remembering my CIA service in Iraq

Marc Polymeropoulos · March 16, 2023 6:00 am

In this Tuesday, Jan. 25, 2011 photo, U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Marc Krugh, left, from the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment, looks on as a comrade peers through the scope on his weapon during a patrol near Iskandariyah, 30 miles (50 kilometers) south of Baghdad. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Beltway Confidential

Liberal hawks learned nothing from Iraq, and their attacks on DeSantis show it

Timothy P. Carney · March 15, 2023 5:09 pm