PETER HITCHENS: Our spies should discretely advise our elected government – not make speeches suggesting we are at war with Russia

I yearn for the days when we pretended not to have any spies. In our missions abroad, they were known as 'the unmentionables' ...
Miami Herald

I voted against the Iraq War. My fellow Republicans must do the same on Venezuela | Opinion

Members of the U.S. Marine Corps, Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 225, work at Jose Aponte de la Torre Airport on Sept. 13, 2025 in Ceiba, Puerto Rico. President Donald Trump was sending 10 F-35 ...
CNN

Is Venezuela a redux of the lead-up to the Iraq war? Not exactly

A version of this story appeared in CNN’s What Matters newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. There’s a lot to worry any American who look at the US military buildup around ...
Forbes

Rebuilding After War And Why Iraq Can’t Keep The Lights On

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Ken Silverstein covers global energy and climate issues. An Iraqi girl uses a lantern to do her homework in Baghdad 18 March 2006.
NPR

An Iraqi vet navigates war and coming home — and his bond with an NPR reporter

This story originally published on Nov. 16, 2025. The first I saw of Dave Carlson was his back, in a prison jumpsuit on Sept. 3, 2015. Carlson had been calling me from the cellblock payphone for a few ...
The Morning Journal

Donald Ray Hitchens OBITUARY

Donald Ray Hitchens, of Lorain, passed away November 5, 2025, following a lengthy illness in New Life Hospice surrounded by his loving family. Donald was born January 30, 1955, in New Orleans, ...
The Heritage Foundation

Repeal the 1991 and 2002 Gulf and Iraq War Authorizations

Buried beneath the tumult of the government shutdown, the historic end to the Hamas-Israel conflict and somber return of the living hostages, the Senate unanimously voted to repeal the 1991 and 2002 ...
NPR

Iraq War veteran talks about life after war

This Veterans Day, NPR's Leila Fadel sits down for a conversation with reporter Quil Lawrence and Iraq War veteran Dave Carlson to discuss what it means to live through war. Today on this Veterans Day ...
The New York Times

Iraq War Veterans, 20 Years Later

“I don’t know how to explain the war to myself,” says a veteran of the Iraq war. In 2003, they were sent to Iraq. Two decades later, veterans from the same unit grapple with their younger selves and ...
Forbes

The Prospect Of An Israel-Iraq War Over Iran-Backed Militias

Members of Iraq's Popular Mobilization Forces and locals gather for a collective prayer for Iran under Israeli attacks, on the bank of Shatt al-Arab River in Basra, Iraq on June 18, 2025. The "Prayer ...
Washington Examiner

Iraq War documentary, once shelved by PBS, sees the light 17 years later

Nearly two decades after it was filmed, a new documentary revisits two of the deadliest battles during the early years of the Iraq War by showing the first-person perspective of the men on the ground.
Wall Street Journal

‘The Last 600 Meters’ Review: The Iraq War’s Realities on PBS

The interviews for “The Last 600 Meters,” which commemorates the Iraq War battles of Fallujah and Najaf, were conducted in 2007, “while memories were still fresh.” Given what’s recollected in director ...