A decade after U.S. invasion, Iraq torn between progress and chaos
Ten years after the United States barreled into Iraq with extraordinary force and a perilous lack of foresight, the country is neither the failed state that seemed all but inevitable during the darkest...
View ArticleJets ‘held back amid Benghazi attacks’
As the weakly protected U.S. diplomatic compound in eastern Libya came under attack the night of Sept. 11, 2012, the deputy head of the embassy in Tripoli sought in vain to get the Pentagon to scramble...
View ArticleViolence in Egypt bolsters jihadist message about democracy’s dangers
Jihadists in the Middle East and beyond are moving to capitalize on the political crisis in Egypt, arguing that the crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood vindicates their long-espoused view that...
View ArticleChemical attack weakens drive to destroy world stockpiles
The shelling of suburban Damascus with a suspected nerve agent last week was potentially the third large-scale use of a chemical weapon in the Middle East and may have broken the longest period in...
View ArticleAs U.S. withdraws from Afghanistan, poppy trade it spent billions fighting...
The United States is withdrawing troops from Afghanistan having lost its battle against the country’s narcotics industry, marking one of the starkest failures of the 2009 strategy the Obama...
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