World | FOCUS Feb 9, 2021
In Saddam strongholds that fought America, Iraqis fear a U.S. departure
by John Davison and Ahmed Rasheed
The U.S. troop drawdown is creating a security vacuum, security officials, former fighters and residents say.
Business Jan 23, 2019
A century on, Basra's British-era shipyard going strong via vintage machinery
Begun in 1918 by British troops, Basra's shipyard is surviving into old age with little maintenance, relying on its vintage machinery and the skill of its workers to keep going. Thousands of ships, including former dictator Saddam Hussein's yacht, have passed through the Iraqi shipyard's ...
Asia Pacific | ANALYSIS Apr 15, 2018
by Jesse Johnson
Could the decision to strike Syrian targets after a recent chemical weapons attack impact the planned landmark summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un? It's complicated. But one thing is certain: The strikes will serve as a stark reminder ...
World / Politics Sep 13, 2016
Ex-CIA chief who backed Iraq war, felt Hussein plotted 9/11, now Trump adviser
Former CIA Director James Woolsey, a vocal advocate of the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq who promoted allegations that Saddam Hussein harbored illegal weapons, will serve as a senior national security adviser to Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, the campaign announced on Monday. Woolsey's hiring ...
Commentary / World Jul 10, 2016
Thanks to U.S., U.K., Iraq mired in endless war
by Gwynne Dyer
Looking back now at the Iraq War, what shines through is the sheer arrogance and ignorance of those who brought this calamity down on the Iraqis, who must now live out their lives in misery and terror.
Commentary / World Jan 5, 2016
Shadow of Saddam looms large in Iraq
by Mohamad Bazzi
Saddam Hussein's legacy will continue to haunt Iraq as long as Sunni grievances are unresolved.
World Jun 17, 2015
Saddam's former elite underpins Islamic State success
by Samia Nakhoul
A year after declaring his caliphate, it is clear that the secret of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's success is the army and state he has built from the remnants of Saddam Hussein's military, and the allegiance he has won or coerced from alienated Sunni Muslims ...
World Jun 6, 2015
Through long years of conflict and crisis in Saddam Hussein's Iraq, Tariq Aziz was his master's voice to the outside world — an urbane, cigar-smoking diplomat who relayed Saddam's tough and uncompromising stance to his enemies. In the months leading up to the 1991 Gulf ...
World Aug 27, 2013
Chemical attack weakens drive to destroy world stockpiles
by Ernesto Londono
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 history without such an attack. If confirmed, the attack, which U.S. ...
Commentary / World May 1, 2013
by Gwynne Dyer
George W. Bush wasn't lying about Iraq after all. Saddam Hussein did have weapons of mass destruction — pressure cookers in the homes of Iraqi officials.
Commentary / World Apr 10, 2013
by Ramesh Thakur
That the war changed Iraq into a stable and peaceful democracy is a myth. It has been left a broken and dysfunctional country. The big winner is Iran.