Iraq

Iraqis protest against the government and the lack of basic services outside the regional government headquarters in the southern city of Basra on September 5th, 2018.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

A year after the liberation of Mosul, Iraq's boys find themselves in a series of dead ends.

• By Alex Potter

Tired of candidates who offer splashy, unrealistic promises, many citizens lost faith in the electoral process. That discontent showed in the election turnout.

• By Kenneth R. Rosen

While the region touts some of the most pro-feminism positions in the world, there are still many regressive aspects to its society.

• By Haidar Khezri

An Iraqi man walks past a prosthetic leg in a residential area in the Old City of Mosul, Iraq, on March 13th, 2018.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

Haji Ali, Iraq: A view of the village—which has been ravaged by battles against ISIS—through one of its destroyed buildings.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

With Special Operations Command personnel making up an increasingly large share of troop levels abroad, the government mandate for wartime transparency becomes less binding.

• By Jared Keller

Displaced Iraqi children from the former embattled city of Mosul attend school at the Hasan Sham camp, east of Erbil in northern Iraq, on November 20th, 2017.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

The American military has released hundreds of videos showing U.S.-led coalition airstrikes. The victims are not always the intended targets.

• By Jared Keller

The 7.3-magnitude earthquake killed more than 400 people and injured thousands.

• By Emily Moon

A member of the Iraqi forces covers his ears as he fires a mortar against Kurdish Peshmerga positions near the Turkish and Syrian borders in the Iraqi Kurdish autonomous region on October 26th, 2017.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

Iraqi forces arrive in the southern outskirts of Kirkuk on October 16th, 2017.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

Syrian Kurds wave the Kurdish flag in the Syrian city of Qamishli on September 27th, 2017, during a gathering in support of the independence referendum in Iraq's northern Kurdish region.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

An Iraqi boy flashes the sign for victory as he celebrates in the Old City of Mosul on July 9th, 2017, after the government's announcement of the liberation of the embattled city.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

The rise of precision munitions should have made civilian casualties an avoidable relic of yesteryear. It didn't.

• By Jared Keller

It isn't fear mongering to properly prepare the public.

• By Michael Soussan

A new paper identifies the Westerners finding their way to Iraq and Syria—and how great a threat they pose, and what should be done to stop them.

• By Devan Kreisberg

What America's history of nation-building tells us about our failures in Iraq.

• By Jared Keller

What the Mexican novelist can teach us about the nativist fantasies of Donald Trump.

• By Aaron Bady

A recent bombing in the town of Suruc has prodded Turkey into re-thinking its approach to ISIS and Syria.

• By Sarabrynn Hudgins

A new study suggests witnessing death, not just deployment or combat, raises soldiers' risk of suicide.

• By Nathan Collins

A military study finds the length of service and dishonorable discharges have a much larger influence on suicide risk than being sent to war.

• By Nathan Collins

In a new essay collection, historian Richard J. Evans argues against the popular conception.

• By Noah Berlatsky

The brutal violence the Islamic State has used to control its territory is as much as part of its establishment of a state in Syria and Iraq as are the services it provides.

• By Daniel Solomon