The 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq failed to uncover clandestine weapons of mass destruction and produced a bloody occupation that exposed the limits of U.S. power.
In this episode, we step into eastern Baghdad, where Sadr City became the pressure point of the Iraq War and a proving ground for urban counterinsurgency. We follow the uprising sparked in 2004, the ...
The Battle for Ramadi was one of the longest and most violent urban battles of the Iraq War, yet it received far less attention than Fallujah or Baghdad. Located west of Baghdad, Ramadi became a ...
BAGHDAD, Iraq — A suicide bombing in the north and street battles hundreds of miles away in a Shiite holy city in the south claimed 16 lives Tuesday, demonstrating the tenuous security in Iraq as the ...
The United States military achieved every objective it set when it went to war in Iraq in 2003. Decapitation: Saddam Hussein was captured, tried and hanged. Air dominance: total, within days. Regime ...
ST. LOUIS — Looking around at the tens of thousands of people waving American flags and cheering, Army Maj. Rich Radford was moved that so many braved a cold January wind Saturday in St. Louis to ...