Iraq war

Hadi Jasim was an Iraqi translator for the US military. Now he's a "global guide" at the Penn Museum in Philadelphia.

This Philadelphia museum hired Iraqi and Syrian refugees as tour guides for its Middle East gallery

Refugees from Syria and Iraq help visitors at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology make connections between history and the present day.

This Philadelphia museum hired Iraqi and Syrian refugees as tour guides for its Middle East gallery
Lawrence Davidson and Yaroub Al-Obaidi crossed paths in Iraq.

Ten years later, two men reflect on their very different experiences of wartime Iraq

Ten years later, two men reflect on their very different experiences of wartime Iraq
An employee works at strengthening the Mosul Dam in northern Iraq, in February 2016.

Mosul Dam could be scarier than ISIS

Mosul Dam could be scarier than ISIS
Ibrahim Esmael Ibrahim at the train station in Idomeni, Greece. As a teenager, he worked as a translator with the US military in Iraq.

An Iraqi translator for the US military is now stuck in Greece

An Iraqi translator for the US military is now stuck in Greece
Jason Torres and Daniel Fienco, "I Was There" participants, line up a shot for their film "What's Really Important"

The grandson of 'Old Blood and Guts' makes film, not war

The grandson of 'Old Blood and Guts' makes film, not war
Major General Qassem Suleimani, who heads the Quds Brigade in Iran's Revolutionary Guards.

Meet the most powerful man in the Middle East you've probably never heard of

He confounded American commanders in Iraq and all but saved the regime of Bashar al-Assad. But until recently, few people outside of military circles knew the name of Iranian General Qasem Soleimani. He's a public and popular figure in his home country now — and just as powerful as ever.

Meet the most powerful man in the Middle East you've probably never heard of
Actor Bradley Cooper arrives for the premiere of the film "American Sniper" in New York on December 15, 2014.

How Americans fell in love with snipers

"American Sniper" is a huge hit with audiences and critics, but it's also getting slammed for its portrayal of the war in Iraq and the sniper at its center. So what does the film say about the war's morality, and why do once-maligned snipers now star on the big screen?

How Americans fell in love with snipers
A soldier from the US Army's 173rd Airborne Brigade adjusts his gas mask prior to an air analysis mission near an oil and gas separation plant at the Baba Gurgur oil field outside northern Iraq's town of Kirkuk on May 3, 2003.

The Army's secrecy habit kept US troops from getting needed treatment after chemical weapons exposure

Iraq may not have had the weapons of mass destruction that the Bush administration believed, but it did have stockpiles of long-abandoned chemical weapons. And this week, C.J. Chivers of The New York Times blew the lid off of the Army's long silence on those weapons — and the soldiers they harmed.

The Army's secrecy habit kept US troops from getting needed treatment after chemical weapons exposure
A member of the Iraqi Special Operations Forces (ISOF) takes his position during a patrol looking for militants of the Islamic State, formerly known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), in a neighborhood in Ramadi, July 23, 2014.

Iraq is in serious trouble. Here's how it got there

Frontline's new documentary "Losing Iraq" retraces the missteps the US government made in Iraq — and the deadly results of those poor decisions.

Iraq is in serious trouble. Here's how it got there
A resident gestures as he talks to a U.S. soldier from 2nd Brigade combat team, 82nd Airborne on patrol in Baghdad's Adhamiya district January 5, 2008.

How wars end part I: Iraq

In the spring of 2003, for a brief moment, many Americans bought the idea, that the Iraq war was over. But why didn't the war end with the fall of Baghdad? And why were we programmed to think it might?

How wars end part I: Iraq

Kimberly Peirce

Kimberly Peirce

Depicting Abu Ghraib

Depicting Abu Ghraib

Black 47

Black 47

Susan Sontag: Art That Means War

Susan Sontag: Art That Means War

Battlestar Iraqtica

Battlestar Iraqtica