I first got the opportunity to watch USAID work up close and personal in 2007, when I deployed to Iraq as commander of the ...

This account was confirmed by two commanders of Iraqi armed factions that ... Meanwhile, Major-General Suheil al-Hassan’s elite Special Mission Forces Division, trained and equipped by Russia ...

A small force from the special forces division and Iraqi Army's 9th Division also joined to contain the militants as the clashes continued for hours inside the Green Zone, the seat of Iraq's ...

In June 2008, when commanding the 1st Armored Division in northern Iraq, we tasked our female soldiers to put together a women’s conference in Erbil. They brought together Iraqi ... Army, and I saw ...

With or without the presence of US forces, the Iraqi civil war is likely to grind on for some time. The large presence of US ground forces has had little effect on Iraqi politics, or on the ...

BAGHDAD — The fall of Bashar Assad in Syria has led Iran-allied factions in neighboring Iraq to reconsider their push for U.S. forces to exit the country, multiple Iraqi and American officials ...

BAGHDAD — Car bombs and militant attacks are no longer a daily concern in the streets of Baghdad as they were in the chaotic years after the fall of Saddam Hussein or at the height of the battle ...

Iraqi and Kurdistan Regional Government security forces launched a joint operation in the Gharaw Palkana area of Khurmatu district, a known Islamic State stronghold connecting several provinces.

Season 3 of “Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test” continues to push its celebrity contestants to their breaking points. Half of this season’s recruits have already left the course ...

An entire division of the Iraqi army, numbering 8,000 soldiers, surrendered to coalition forces in southern Iraq, Pentagon officials said. Iraq's 51st Infantry Division surrendered as British and ...

Precision airstrikes led by Iraqi security forces (ISF) killed five Islamic State (ISIS) operatives near Iraq's Kirkuk on Jan. 31, the U.S. Central Command (Centcom) said in an X post on Tuesday.

Soldiers of the 8th Regiment of Ukraine's Special Operations Forces resisted a North Korean assault in Russia’s Kursk Oblast for eight hours before retreating, killing 21 and wounding 40 ...