Latest Iraq Stories
Crash In Iraq Helps Unmask Secretive Ultra-Quiet Special Operations Drone Program
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated May 4, 2021
The Iraqi Air Force’s F-16 Fleet Is On The Brink Of Collapse Despite Showy Flybys
By Thomas Newdick / Updated Jan 7, 2021
F-16s Rescue Desperate Special Operators In This Chilling Account With Gun Camera Footage
By Thomas Newdick / Updated Dec 18, 2020
How a Secretive Special Operations Task Force Is Taking the Fight to ISIS
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jul 3, 2020
ISIS Drone Dropping Bomblet On Abrams Tank Is A Sign Of What’s To Come
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Jul 3, 2020
Those Old OV-10 Broncos Sent To Fight ISIS Were Laser Rocket-Slinging Manhunters
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Jul 2, 2020
Here’s Everything We Know About America’s Airstrikes On Iranian-Related Targets In Iraq
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Mar 13, 2020
Flying The First Night Of War In Iraq Without A Wingman And Two Polish Snipers In Back
By Chris Harmer / Updated Jan 29, 2020
Multiple Rockets Strike The American Embassy Compound In Iraq (Updated)
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jan 27, 2020
Iran Strikes Back: Missiles Rain Down On American Forces In Iraq (Updated)
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jan 8, 2020
Trump “Had Never Seen Anything Like” His Secretive Flight To Iraq Aboard Air Force One
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Dec 1, 2019
USAF Fought ISIS With the Wrong Bombs and Tactics For Months
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Oct 11, 2019
Has Israel’s Air War On Iranian-Backed Militias Secretly Migrated To Iraq? (Updated)
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Aug 23, 2019
Document Offers New Details About Those OV-10 Broncos That Went to Fight ISIS
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jun 30, 2019
Has The Iraqi Civil War Begun?
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jun 29, 2019
Iranian Tanks Roll Up to The Iraqi Border As Embargo of Kurds Expands
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jun 29, 2019
How the Kurdish Independence Referendum Could Spark a Civil War or Worse
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jun 29, 2019
A-10 Warthogs Drop Bunker Buster Bombs in Combat for the First Time
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jun 29, 2019
This Disturbing Iraqi Special Forces Demo Is Like A Cheer Tryout From Hell
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jun 29, 2019
Regular U.S. Troops Are Getting Close Enough to ISIS to Fire Mortars
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jun 29, 2019
A Higher-Risk US Strategy to Rout ISIS From Mosul Emerges
By Joseph Trevithick and Tyler Rogoway / Updated Jun 29, 2019
U.S. Marines Secretly Set Up Artillery Base North of Raqqa
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jun 29, 2019
These Are A Renowned Combat Journalist’s Favorite Images From A Decade Of Deployments
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Jan 18, 2019
U.S. Helicopter Crash Kills One In Iraq After Reported Special Operations Raid
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Aug 21, 2018
Those Suped-Up OV-10 Broncos That Took On ISIS In Iraq Are Being Sold Off
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jul 23, 2018
Iraqi Armored Brigade Ditches U.S. M1 Abrams For Russian T-90 Tanks
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jun 8, 2018
Photo Of Secretive French Spy Plane Supporting Campaign Against ISIS Slips Out Online
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated May 17, 2018
Iraq’s An-32 Cargo Planes Turned Bombers Flew Nearly Twice As Many Strikes As its F-16s
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Apr 23, 2018
Now Iraq Has Started Bombing Syria Too (Updated)
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Apr 19, 2018
Iraq Looking To Buy Russia’s S-400 Air Defense System: Report
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Feb 26, 2018
ISIS Blows Up Historic Mosque In Mosul Where Its Own Caliphate Was Declared
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Jun 22, 2017
Watch a B-52 Obliterate This Massive ISIS Held Hotel In Mosul
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Mar 20, 2017
This ISIS Armored Loader Just Broke Through Iraqi Army Lines and Blew Up
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Mar 15, 2017
Check Out This Sweet Video Of A Smart Bomb Laden B-52 Going After ISIS
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Feb 22, 2017
The Fight For Mosul Grinds to a Bloody Crawl
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Dec 28, 2016
ISIS Lobbed Chemical Weapons at US Soldiers Based Near Mosul
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Sep 23, 2016
As the Plan to Retake Mosul Shapes Up, The Dark Realities Of Such a Battle Loom
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Jul 14, 2016
US Special Ops MRZR Buggies Full of Javelin Missiles Spotted Near Mosul
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated May 31, 2016