Iraq

Why America’s reluctant and late-coming promise to retake Iraq will be long, costly and, quite possibly, futile

Highlights from this week’s Maclean’s on the Hill interview with the foreign minister

Bombing may blunt the progress of Islamic insurgents, but history tells us air power has limited results

Ford vs. Blair continues, while the Islamic State advances on Syria and the U.S. mulls troops in Iraq

While Iraq is being torn apart by violence, the Kurds may find their place, once and for all

Can Iraq’s new prime minister become a peace builder? And other top stories from the afternoon.

Adnan R. Khan on the humanitarian crisis in Iraq and why there is some political hope

The nation is suffering a crisis of identity so fundamental that recovering from it will be more daunting than defeating ISIS

ISIS’s deadly advance has left its opponents terrified and demoralized. Adnan R. Khan reports from the front lines.

Now the world is learning the high price of American detachment