Tal Afar as Ethnic Civil War Much of the American press has reported the Tal Afar campaign as a strike by the new Iraqi Army, […]

No Comments: Raed In a sad sign of the times, Raed Jarrar and friends, the Iraqi bloggers, have closed their comment section. They were alarmed […]

No Constitution Yet Waters of Battle recede in Tal Afar The final text of the Iraqi constitution has still not been worked out, and so […]

9/11, 7/7 and 8/30 On the fourth-year anniversary of the al-Qaeda attacks on the US, it is important that we take stock of where we […]

Tal Afar Stormed Threat of Ethnic Cleansing Grows in Iraq Iraqi troops took the lead in the ground assault in the northern Turkmen city of […]

Hitchens and Iraq History News Network has reprinted my essay responding to Christopher Hitchens on the Iraq War.

Television Review: The Flight that Fought Back The Discovery Channel is airing a documentary on United Airlines flight 93, which was hijacked and crashed in […]

Private Company Shuts down Baghdad International Airport More violence in Baghdad The steady drumbeat of mayhem continued again on Friday. One bomb in Baghdad killed […]

Another Winning Formula for Iraq Distinguished Middle East historian William R. Polk writes: ‘ If my comments in my last essay on the suggestion of […]