One of Iraq's biggest cultural events of the year started today - the Iraq International Book Fair. From Baghdad, NPR's Jane Arraf reports. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #1: (Speaking Arabic). JANE ARRAF, ...

ALTHOUGH IT IS beginning to recover, Iraq is still suffering from the wars of the past decades. In 2023 about 45 people a month died violently, according to Iraq Body Count, a Britain-based monitor.

The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, The C.I.A., and the Origins of America’s Invasion of Iraq; By Steve Coll Penguin Press; 576 pp., $35.00 Steve Coll’s riveting new history, The Achilles Trap: Saddam ...

Thomas Ricks is telling his colleagues about the skepticism he encountered when writing his Iraq war book, Fiasco. “When I first started working on it,” he says, “a lot of people said, ‘Why are you ...

May 3, 2006 — -- A growing number of college students have emptied their backpacks for a good cause. Instead of selling back their textbooks to the bookstore or letting them gather dust in their ...

Steve Coll, The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America’s Invasion of Iraq (New York: Penguin, 2024). Was the Iraq War a product of mutual misperception by U.S. and Iraqi ...

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