In 2003, the destruction of one particular statue in Baghdad made worldwide headlines and came to be a symbol of western victory in Iraq. But there was so much more to it—or rather, so much less.
Specialists Solomon Bangayan and Marc Seiden fought together in Bravo Company’s 3rd Platoon in Iraq. Both were killed. Here’s how they made it home.
The author and Kamaran Najm co-founded a photo agency in Iraq and teamed up to document a new era in Kurdistan, a region with a long history of suffering. Then Kamaran was captured by ISIS.
A profile of Erik Prince, then the CEO of America’s largest and most controversial mercenary force, Blackwater, who happened to be a C.I.A. agent.
How a ferry disaster exposed the corruption devastating Iraq.
Veteran Andy Chavez’s miraculous journey from coma to Wheelchair Games.
Following fallen soldier Joe Montgomery from field to grave.
How killing by remote control has changed the way we fight.
Inside Iraq’s most notorious prison, an Army interrogator named Joshua Casteel came fact to face with a truth about the war—and himself.
Published across three consecutive issues and later adapted into the book (and mini-series) Generation Kill, the story of bullets, bombs and a Marine platoon at war in Iraq.
The Pentagon’s failed campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan left a generation of soldiers with little to fight for but one another.
A Marine veteran of the Iraq War on battle and faith.
In October, Iraqi forces set out to retake Mosul, one of Iraq’s largest cities and ISIS’s biggest stronghold in the country. It would take them nine months and cost thousands of lives.
A sniper’s bullet and a long recovery.
The diary of a Scranton, PA National Guardsmen tasked with guarding the highest profile prisoner in U.S history: a surprisingly amiable Saddam Hussein.
A private contractor tossed U.S. military waste in Iraq and Afghanistan into giant pits and burned it. Now soldiers forced to breathe the toxic fumes are sick or dying—and the government is using faulty science to evade responsibility.
Stuart Redus and Fernando Torres were left for dead.
He was just another coked-up agent (repping the likes of Steven Soderbergh) when he disappeared into Iraq, shooting heaps of footage he would attempt to package into a pro-war documentary. And that was just the beginning.
The daily life of Saddam Hussein.
A former Ohio National Guardsman recalls being dunked on by LeBron James as a teenager — and how the James helped get him through the Iraq War.
“In some ways, joining the military is an act of faith in one’s country—an act of faith that the country will use your life well.”
Paul Bremer was briefly the Bush administration’s point person in Iraq. His decisions would have lasting consequences.
On Ahmad Chalabi, the con man who pushed America to war. Chalabi died on Tuesday at the age of 71.
The search for an Iraq veteran on the brink of suicide.
Visiting with the Christian fighters defending Iraq’s Nineveh Plains.
