Eleven years after the U.S. invasion, Iraq remains steeped in violence, with militant extremists gaining ground, civil war hanging in the balance and no clear resolution to the chaos. What went wrong?

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A plume of smoke rises near Erbil International Airport in Erbil on March 1, 2026. Loud explosions were heard early on March 1 ...

Iranian-backed militias in Iraq are seeking to tie down US forces in the Middle East. Iran is seeking to inflame Iraq and drag it into an ever-widening conflict in the Middle East. In the wake of US ...

And how that push, with Vice President Dick Cheney as its architect, led to fractures with the U.S. intelligence community — ...

Iranian-backed militias are targeting US forces in Iraq. The Iranian-linked group Saraya Awliya Al-Dam claimed to have targeted American bases in Erbil, the capital of the Kurdistan Region of Northern ...