The “peace process” in the Middle East lurches along from crisis to crisis. Since President Obama took office, George Mitchell has served as his special envoy to the region, with his energies focused primarily on bringing the Israeli-Palestinian...

A pickup truck driven by a suicide bomber struck a commercial strip in a predominantly Shiite town north of Baghdad on Friday evening, the latest in a string of extremist attacks that appear to be aimed at more vulnerable places outside the heavily...

Staggered explosions killed 21 people Wednesday and injured the governor of Anbar, Iraqi officials said, in the latest violence to roil a turbulent province that is still struggling to stamp out the remnants of the al-Qaida insurgency. The western...

Iraq’s tortuous effort to hold its parliamentary election on schedule in January collapsed Monday, raising the prospect of a political and constitutional crisis next year as the United States begins withdrawing the majority of its combat troops.

Iraqi politicians have been turning up their rhetoric over Kirkuk, the oil-rich city that both Kurds in the north and Arabs in the south want to control. The dispute has caused a deadlock over the country’s election law, threatening to delay...

Since 9/11, many of us have wondered: Where are the moderate Muslims? If they are out there, why are we not hearing more, and getting more help, from them in the fight against our common foe — the totalitarian Islamists?

An Iraqi engineer who provided the information that became one of the key planks in the Bush administration’s case justifying the invasion of Iraq has been tracked down by undercover reporters to a drab residential block in southern Germany.

Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on Wednesday ordered militants fighting Iraqi security forces in the southern oil hub of Basra to lay down their weapons in 72 hours or face “severe penalties”. “Those who were deceived into carry...

White House spokeswoman Dana Perino is praising Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki for sending Iraqi troops into battle against Shiite militia with links to Iran for control of the southern oil capital of Basra. She calls it a brave decision and...

The Iraq war is now going better than expected, for a change. Most critics of the war, myself included, blew it: we didn’t anticipate the improvements in security that are partly the result of last year’s “surge.”