We interrupt President Obama’s celebration of keeping a campaign promise to bring you news from Iraq, where a political crisis has been unfolding since just hours after Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta departed on Thursday.

A pocos iraquíes, y a pocos árabes, les gustan los iraníes. Pero tras la salida de EE UU, los iraníes han pasado a ser la fuerza más poderosa en la región, así que los políticos que quieren sobrevivir se afanan por tejer alianzas con Teherán.

On Friday, August 8, the longstanding tensions between Georgia and Russia over the separatist region of South Ossetia escalated dramatically. Reports indicate that late last week, Georgia’s staunchly pro-Western government launched an offensive to reclaim the territory, shelling secessionist militias and sending forces into the city of Tskhinvali. Russia, which...

Violence is up in the Baghdad belts because U.S. and Iraqi forces have been aggressively attacking al Qaeda bases in those areas.

The surge of U.S. troops in Iraq is generating some promising results. While we cannot yet call it a total success, we likewise cannot yet call it a failure.

Nine months of progress in Iraq.

Anbar's citizens needed protection before they would give their "hearts and minds."

There is still delicate work to be done in Iraq as General Raymond Odierno succeeds General David Petraeus as commander of U.S. and coalition forces.