When I tell people I’m going on another trip to Dubai, I know I’m going to be met with a response along the lines of: ‘I have no desire to go there’. It’s followed up with comments that Dubai has no ...

Emily Garthwaite / INSTITUTE On the west bank of the Tigris, less than a mile downriver from the town of Sherqat in northern Iraq, a wedge-shaped rocky outcrop presses the blue ribbon of the ...

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Under Saddam, theft wasn’t a crime—it was the national business model, sanctified by fear, filmed for posterity, and sold ...

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During major operations, there were as many as 160,000 troops in Iraq in 2007, and 100,000 in Afghanistan in 2011. As of June 2025, a U.S. defense official said there were some forty thousand ...