To some State Department officials and Middle East analysts who tracked the issue, it showcased the law of unintended consequences.

And because the U.S. military was unprepared for the kind of fight it found itself in during the Iraq War, the lessons to be learned is that the Americans should not become so rigid on things like ...

But its links to Iranian-backed militias in Iraq has not always been public knowledge.“Sheikh Naim Qassem made the remarks in ...