In memoirs and novels, Iraq vets reflect on war’s dehumanizing consequences ... Kevin Powers—a former machine-gunner deployed to Mosul and Tal Afar, Iraq, in 2004 and 2005—has written ...

The most tragic and infuriating piece of writing of the week came in Tuesday ... The city had suffered a great deal during the Iran-Iraq war, and its decline accelerated after 2003.

On the battlefields in Iraq, Army Sgt John McCary's weapon kept ... and now a documentary about the latest chapter in American war writing. In the documentary, to air Monday night on PBS, the ...

If you’re an Afghanistan vet reading this with a strong sense of déjà vu, don’t worry, I felt the same thing writing ... State war machine against the combined armies of the Iraq Security ...

A book-writing Belfast soldier with the Royal Irish Regiment has been honoured by the military for courage in Iraq ... Iraq war. The 31-year-old, known as "Speedy" for his running prowess, was awarded ...

When Ahmed Badr was 8 years old, his family's home in Baghdad was bombed in the midst of the Iraq War. The family was ... they came to the U.S. as refugees. Writing helps Badr deal with what ...

the war in Iraq — or at least the version he experienced. “I care only about writing with as much authenticity as possible what my experience looked like — what it means to be young in a war ...

Obviously there will be no do-over of the Iraq war authorization; the next president can’t hop a time machine back to 2003. But even as a theoretical exercise, it’s impossible to answer Kelly ...

This month marks the first anniversary since the official end of the Iraq ... there, writing this down as it happened, you get closer to how it really was." We have a narrative of the war ...

Bush launched the invasion of Iraq. Bush and Co. intended the second Iraq War as a stepping-stone to wider domination of the Middle East, and they claimed victory when Saddam Hussein's dictatorial ...

Two Newsweek reporters look back at the mistakes and trauma of the first days of the Iraq War Two Newsweek ... "I strongly regret writing that the war was 'inevitable and necessary,' " he said.

And it’s the theme of an event this weekend, organized by the nonprofit Warrior Writers, where Iraqis and veterans of the Iraq War will share their writing about rivers and friendship. The life of ...