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Tonight, President Obama will address the nation to discuss the drawdown of US combat forces in Iraq. In February, Robert Dreyfuss reported on the specter of civil conflict and the possibility of the outbreak of a civil war—which still looms.

A top candidate to replace the ailing Khamenei is both a clerical traditionalist and a modernizer.

The Editors Here's what's really at stake in this election, for America and the world.

An Iraqi government desperate for credibility could receive no better gift than Obama's exit plan.

The latest round of Iraq's Shiite vs. Shiite civil war was to have been Bush's defining moment. The result: utter humiliation for the US and the Iraqi government.

Maybe. But Iraqis mistrust Iran as much as they do the United States.

The bad boy of Iraqi politics is going back to school.
al-Sadr's plan to become an ayatollah has enormous
implications for Iraqis and the United States.

Dire predictions aside, it's not too late for a unified, nationalist Iraq to emerge from the rubble.

The Iraq War has replaced Vietnam as the emblem of America's worst impulses.

Bush is the insolent star of an absurd spectacle, seeking to escalate a failed war that Congress and the people oppose.