Mr. Chairman: Thank you very much for the opportunity to appear before this subcommittee; I am honored and hope to provide my views in such a manner as to assist your very important deliberations. Our ...

Many experts say Iraq will have some form of elected government within 18 months. That relatively quick timetable, some say, could result in a government that lacks widespread legitimacy and the ...

MOSUL, Iraq — An Iraqi governor and leading Sunni politician said Sunday that the nation’s “last chance for democracy” could be derailed if the Shiite prime minister keeps his job despite losing to a ...

Call it Democracy Deficiency Syndrome. Frustrated by the continuing struggle to build a stable democracy in Iraq, some backers of Saddam Hussein’s removal have taken to opining that one of the most ...

Iraqis went to the polls on November 11 to vote in parliamentary elections. Preliminary results put the coalition of Iraq’s prime minister, Mohammed Shia al-Sudani, in the lead. But no bloc has won ...

Is publicly confronting the likely next prime minister of Iraq the right strategy for the United States? The nomination of Nouri al Maliki by the Coordination Framework, the organizing body of Shiite ...

Thomas Carothers of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace addressed the legitimacy of the imposition of democracy by force in a lecture in Dodds Auditorium yesterday afternoon. The Iraq ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Nuri Kamal al-Maliki, a former prime minister, was nominated to lead Iraq once again, but President Trump said he would cut U.S. support if that went ahead. By Erika Solomon The nominee to be Iraq’s ...

In Iraq, the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad is urging all U.S. citizens to leave immediately, warning Iran-aligned militias may be planning attacks within the next 24 to 48 hours. The warning came after U.S.