The recent China-Iran agreement presents Baghdad with a profound geopolitical choice: the United States or China?

A recent missile attack on Erbil airport in Iraqi Kurdistan portends growing instability in what has generally been a relatively peaceful region of Iraq.

Iraqi Prime Minister Mostafa al-Kadhimi is taking on the militias, and the early results aren’t encouraging.

What might seem like an appealing option to US military planners is actually fraught with its own geopolitical perils.