Saddam Hussein

A C.I.A. capable of making a mistake on the scale of its miss about Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction was not part of Saddam Hussein’s worldview.

In “The Achilles Trap,” Steve Coll paints the demise of the Iraqi dictator as a tragedy of misperceptions on both sides.

After the lessons the United States should have learned from postwar Iraq, some advice for Israel and its plans for a post-Hamas Gaza.

Vincent Bevins’s “If We Burn” and Robert D. Kaplan’s “The Loom of Time” consider protest movements of the past and the drive for democracy in countries like Egypt, Syria and Iraq.

I won awards covering Iraq, but my Iraqi colleague lost everything.

The rationale was wrong, and the execution was lousy. But getting rid of Saddam Hussein was the right call.

George W. Bush has told advisers that the world is better off without Saddam Hussein — and he has not changed his mind about that.

Conversations with dozens of Iraqis offer a portrait of a nation that is rich in oil, hobbled by corruption and unable to guarantee its citizens’ safety.

He scoured the country for weapons of mass destruction after the U.S. invasion in 2003, but his search proved fruitless.

Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, who had eluded capture for 17 years, was Mr. Hussein’s right-hand man in a government that dealt brutally with Iraqi civilians and unleashed catastrophic regional wars.