President Donald Trump painted a simplistic picture for the US operation in Venezuela: go in, get the oil and start exporting. But Big Oil’s experience in post-invasion Iraq proved that the reality will be far more complicated.

Nearly ten years since the United States invaded Iraq, researchers at Brown University are assessing the cost of the war. The report, from Brown's Watson Institute for International Studies, is comprehensive, taking a look at the direct and indirect costs ...

BAGHDAD(AP) — United National Secretary-General Antonio Guterres was in Baghdad on Saturday to mark the end of the political mission set up in 2003 following the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq that toppled Saddam Hussein. The U.N. Security Council, at Iraq ...

Iraq’s government said Sunday that US forces have completed a “full withdrawal” from military facilities within the country’s federal territory, which excludes the semiautonomous Kurdistan region where US troops remain.

The September 11, 2001, attacks heightened fears in the United States that Iraq might give terrorists weapons of mass destruction (WMD). Although the United Nations had pressed Iraq to dismantle its nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons programs after ...

Dick Cheney, vice president under George W. Bush from 2001 to 2009, has died. He was considered one of the most powerful vice presidents in U.S. history. See his political career in photos, including here at a news conference about the war appropriations bill in the Rose Garden of the White House on March 3, 2007.

The United States, since its 2003 invasion of Iraq, has held effective control over the country's oil revenue dollars, giving Washington extraordinary leverage over Baghdad's affairs, with implications for regional dynamics involving Iran.

Crusty old reporters like to complain that the Internet, Twitter, memes, GIFs, and whatever are ruining journalism and America. But when you look back at, say, the invasion of Iraq, it's hard not to think the country could have benefitted from a little ...