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Iran’s Fair-Weather Friends

Elizabeth Tsurkov

The Cheney Effect

Iran Could Lose Iraq

Michael Knights, Hamdi Malik

I Remember Fallujah: A Novel

What Iran Wants

Christopher de Bellaigue

Illusions of Control: Dilemmas in Managing U.S. Proxy Forces in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria

The Ghosts of Iraq’s Marshes: A History of Conflict, Tragedy, and Restoration

Don’t Abandon Iraq

Iraq Needs a New Kind of Partnership With the United States

Mohammed Shia al-Sudani

Why America Is Still Failing in Iraq

How Iraq Happened

How the War in Gaza Revived the Axis of Resistance

Narges Bajoghli, Vali Nasr

Iraq Disarmed: The Story Behind the Story of the Fall of Saddam

Lawrence D. Freedman

Order Out of Chaos: Islam, Information, and the Rise and Fall of Social Orders in Iraq

Order After Empire

Robert D. Kaplan

What the U.S. Military Still Hasn’t Learned From Iraq

Isaiah Wilson III

Iraq Is Quietly Falling Apart

Michael Knights

Orders of Disorder

Garrett M. Graff

Should America Still Promote Democracy?

Thomas Carothers, Tom Malinowski, Max Boot

Small Countries, Big War

Mohammad Ayatollahi Tabaar

American Influence After Iraq

The Iraq War and the Limits of American Power

Bush, 9/11, and the Roots of the Iraq War

Melvyn P. Leffler

Why Iraqi Democracy Never Stood a Chance

Why the Press Failed on Iraq

Iraq and the Pathologies of Primacy

Stephen Wertheim

The Strange Case of Iraq Syndrome

Peter D. Feaver, Christopher Gelpi, Jason Reifler

The Counterinsurgent’s Curriculum

Peter R. Mansoor

Blundering Into Baghdad

The Revenge of Muqtada al-Sadr

Iraq’s Protesters Become Parliamentarians

Sound and Fury in the Post-9/11 Middle East

Policing Iraq: Legitimacy, Democracy, and Empire in a Developing State

Stability in the Middle East Requires More Than a Deal With Iran

U.S. Foreign Policy Never Recovered From the War on Terror

The Decider

Melvyn P. Leffler

The Death and Life of Terrorist Networks

Christopher Blair, Erica Chenoweth, Michael C. Horowitz, Evan Perkoski, Philip B. K. Potter

When the CIA Interferes in Foreign Elections

Iraq Can Now Wrest Its Sovereignty From Iran

The Iraq War Paved the Way for Coronavirus Catastrophe

City of Black Gold: Oil, Ethnicity, and the Making of Modern Kirkuk

The Wounded Presidency, Part Two

Timothy Naftali

Trump’s Strikes Risk Upending Iraqi Politics

The U.S.-Iraqi Relationship Can Still Be Salvaged

Meghan L. O’Sullivan

Silence Falls on Iran’s Protest Movement

Nahid Siamdoust

Will Iran’s Response to the Soleimani Strike Lead to War?

Ilan Goldenberg

The Death of the U.S.-Iraqi Relationship

Iraq’s New Republic of Fear

The Coming Emergency in Iraq

Thanassis Cambanis

Leap of Faith: Hubris, Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign Policy Tragedy

Jessica T. Mathews

How a Caliphate Ends

The Long Game in Iraq

Robert S. Ford, Randa Slim

Winning the Peace in Iraq

Linda S. Robinson

Stuck in the Middle With Iran

The Self-Destruction of American Power

The Last War—and the Next?

Trump’s Iraq Strategy Is Foolish

Michael Wahid Hanna, Thanassis Cambanis

Building the Nation: Missed Opportunities in Iraq and Afghanistan

The Kurdish Awakening

Henri J. Barkey

Is There Hope for Reform in Post-Election Iraq?

State of Repression: Iraq Under Saddam Hussein

Iraq’s Next War

Iraq and the Politics of Oil: An Insider's Perspective

New Hope for Iraq?

The Long Shadow of A.Q. Khan

Catherine Collins, Douglas Frantz

How ISIS’ Strategy Is Evolving

Michael P. Dempsey

ISIS Could Rise Again

Benjamin Bahney, Patrick B. Johnston

The Bloody Split Within ISIS

Vera Mironova, Ekaterina Sergatskova, Karam Alhamad

Iran and Russia, Growing Apart

ISIS’ Intelligence Service Refuses to Die

Vera Mironova, Ekaterina Sergatskova, Karam Alhamad

Kurd Your Enthusiasm

Behnam Ben Taleblu, Merve Tahiroglu

The Clash Over Kirkuk

Mission Still Not Accomplished in Iraq

Making Jihad Pay

After the Kurdish Independence Referendum

Iran and the Kurds

Ariane M. Tabatabai

How ISIS Is Transforming

Colin P. Clarke

ISIS’ Female Suicide Bombers Are No Myth

Aymenn Jawad al-Tamimi

Why Iraqi Security Forces Are Promoting the Arts

Kendall Bianchi

Why Iranian Kurdish Groups Remain Politically Weak

What Iraq’s Kurdish Peshmerga Believe

Matthew Franklin Cancian, Kristin E. Fabbe

How Saudi Arabia Is Stepping Up in Iraq

Firas Maksad, Kenneth M. Pollack

True Believers

Iraq’s Shiites Test Iran

The Names of Jihad

Vera Mironova, Karam Alhamad

Anbar’s Illusions

Carter Malkasian

Russia’s Middle East Energy Diplomacy

James Henderson, Ahmed Mehdi

ISIS’ Yazidi Genocide

Valeria Cetorelli, Isaac Sasson, Nazar Shabila, Gilbert Burnham

The Struggle Over Sinjar

Vera Mironova, Mohammed Hussein

The Future of Iraq's Shiite Militias After ISIS’ Defeat

Kenneth R. Rosen

Debriefing the President: The Interrogation of Saddam Hussein

For Iraqi Kurds, Trump Brings Hope for Independence

To Defeat ISIS, Cooperation Is Key

Ryan B. Greer, Amir Bagherpour

Land Grabs in Iraq

Vera Mironova, Mohammed Hussein

The Dangerous State of Iraq’s Rivers

Peter Schwartzstein

The Women Who Escaped ISIS

Cracks in the Islamic State

Vera Mironova, Ekaterina Sergatskova

Sinjar After ISIS

Christine Balling

ISIS’ New Frontier

Vera Mironova, Karam Alhamad

Is ISIS Breaking Apart?

Charlie Winter, Colin P. Clarke

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