Saddam Hussein

Middle East

Syria was a crisis in plain sight for years

A huge body of research and eyewitness testimony has long been available

Jonathan Spyer

How Syria may avoid repeating history

So far, the state hasn’t been destroyed

Michael Evans

On the anniversary of the Iraq invasion, spare us the sermons

Twenty-one years ago today, the United States committed its worst foreign policy mistake in generations

Daniel DePetris

An impressive examination of the conjoined fates of Iraq and the United States

Steve Coll’s title alludes to Homer, and his subject matter has the arc of Greek tragedy

Clement Knox

Middle East

What does air striking Iraqi militias achieve?

Some of them are actually under the Iraqi army’s umbrella and are financed by the Iraqi state

Daniel DePetris