Rhetorical fireworks over Iraq but few solutions
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Central front in the anti-terror war or diversion, democratic success or cauldron of chaos: the US presidential candidates offered starkly different visions of Iraq but neither had any convincing exit strategy.
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The national intelligence estimate on Iraq released Friday does not address whether the president's plan to surge up to 21,500 troops into Iraq will work, but it lays out an extremely chaotic and complex situation that will make it difficult for those troops to succeed, intelligence and military analysts told CNN.
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New calls from lawmakers to begin withdrawing U.S. forces from Iraq may trouble the White House but are not too out of step with scenarios envisioned by war commanders.
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President George W. Bush and Republicans have taken a battering over Iraq, but it's not because voters believe Democrats have a clear strategy for ending the conflict and bringing American soldiers home.
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Many words, little action from international conference which was meant to help solve bloody violence in Iraq. By Marc Burleigh - SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt.
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Which of the following best characterizes the situation in Iraq?
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No doubt some will say the Jakarta bomb is a vicious retort to Howard&#39;s Iraq policy. It requires a medieval mindset to conceive of the sort of savagery the world witnessed in Beslan.
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White House goals may be chastened by Iraq, but new challenges also loom in Iran and North Korea.
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The debate about how to proceed in Iraq, which in the past few months has focused on withdrawing U.S. troops, now includes serious discussion about adding more forces to the fight.
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BAGHDAD : The rhetoric behind last year&#39;s invasion was called into question with a US admission that Saddam Hussein possessed no banned weapons at the time as US and Iraqi forces pressed their assault on rebel redoubts with a major operation south of the
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Presidential hopefuls show their antiwar stripes, but differ on how to extricate the US from Iraq.
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When it comes to the Iraq war, apparently there is more than one right answer.
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One recent accomplishment in Baghdad would make for awkward fodder for tonightâs State of the Union speech.
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Analysis: It has been clear for some time that the U.S. is not in control of events in Iraq. But the latest sectarian bloodshed suggests that even help from Iran and Syria  may not be enough to stop the slide into chaos
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The Associated Press asked Iraqis for their reactions to some of the key points raised by Gen. David Petraeus and U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker about the situation in Iraq.
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The deterioratng Iraq situation is pushing both to look beyond their cabinets for solutions.
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With the economy dominating voters' minds and playing to Mitt Romney's strengths, the maverick Senator may be trying too hard to shift the debate back to Iraq