Oil, natural resources, religion and history are all powerful attractions compelling many parties to fight for a hand in Iraq. From the Islamic Caliphates to today's Islamic State of Iraq and Syria ...

The extremist group ISIS shares a territorial "footprint" with an earlier and now-disbanded grassroots effort to battle Sunni jihadists in Iraq. Al Qaeda in Iraq, ISIS's predecessor, had been defeated ...

A road map to freedom was born when swishes of blue arrows drew liberty's march on the brown terrain of Iraq. Academia around the world now can see a visualization of the opening days of that march ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

Now that the official case for attacking Iraq made by the US and British governments has started to unravel, the question of the real reason for unleashing this death and destruction has become a hot ...

Click and drag the marker to where you think Iraq is on this map of the Middle East. When you drop it, the answer will appear, and you’ll see how your guess compares with everyone else who has played.

Strange things are happening in the jungles of Colombia. After years of fighting a fierce, conventional war against the leftist guerrilla group known as the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia ...

This is a collection of Said's political essays that appeared in Al-Ahram, Al-Hayat, and the London Review of Books from December 2000 through July 2003, just two months before Said's death. Ever ...

The U.S. military has begun reducing its mission in Iraq under an agreement made with Iraqi officials last year.

The number of British troops in Iraq has come down from 9,000, to just 5,500 in the Basra province. Their tasks include training Iraqi forces, securing the Iraq/Iran border, securing supply routes, ...