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The Axis of Resistance Keeps Getting Smaller

February 25, 2025

in Baghdad. a woman in hijab walks past portraits of the late Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and Iranian commander Qasem Soleimani.

The Fall of Aleppo Was Oddly Familiar

December 2, 2024

Photo of street view in Aleppo with smoke billowing above buildings and wrecked bombed cars in the foreground.

The Iraq War Reconsidered

March 13, 2023

An image of U.S. soldiers standing guard over an Iraqi oilfield, 2003

The Most Stinging Resignation Letter Ever Written

Robert F. Worth

September 22, 2022

A black-and-white photograph of Ali Allawi

We Argue in All the Wrong Ways

November 24, 2021

A man and a woman sit on the ground along a brick wall. He is looking toward her while she looks away.

How Rumsfeld Deserves to Be Remembered

June 30, 2021

Donald Rumsfeld

Counterinsurgency Isn’t the Answer

February 5, 2021

Insurrectionists at the U.S. Capitol on January 6.

The World Won’t Organize Itself

November 1, 2020

Joe Biden with Afghan troops.

Iraq Is the One War Zone Trump Doesn’t Want to Leave

February 3, 2020

Donald Trump speaks to troops at al Asad Air Base with an American flag behind him and Melania Trump next to him.

Soleimani Was Failing

January 7, 2020

A protester holds up a picture of late General Qassem Soleimani.

The Problem With a Host Country Failing to Protect Its Embassies

December 31, 2019

The Nationalist Movements Against Sectarian Politics

October 30, 2019

A close up photo of a demonstrator flashing a V sign. In the background, protesters gather waving Lebanon flags.

Nation Building at Gunpoint

Thanassis Cambanis

May 10, 2019

an illustration of the outline of Iraq cracked and fragmented into pieces