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Twenty years ago, in the spring of 2003, when I responded to an email from the Foreign Office asking for volunteers to go to Iraq to administer the country, I [...]

DURING A ROOFTOP FIREFIGHT IN FALLUJAH, IN ONE OF THE MOST HARROWING BATTLES OF THE IRAQ WAR, SOMETHING HAPPENED TO ELLIOT ACKERMAN THAT HE WOULD NEVER FORGET. TWELVE YEARS LATER, [...]

In March 2003, the start of Operation Iraqi Freedom sent heavy maneuver battalion scout platoons to war. Armed with a doctrinal emphasis on stealth and the evasion of hostile forces, [...]

Squad leader: 'Buzzell, get over here!' Me, standing at the position of parade rest: 'Yes, Sergeant?' Squad leader: 'What the hell does that CBFTW shit stand for on your Web [...]

Early one morning in April, a Monday, an Iraqi doctor and I piled medicine for the Fallujah hospital into the back of his car. I had dyed my hair black, […]

WAS THERE ANY POINT AT which you asked yourself, 'What am I doing here?'' We were surrounded by the press at the Philadelphia airport, camera lights shining in our faces. [...]

Embedding the press with military units, hatched as an innovative public relations experiment by the Pentagon, allowed an immediate and intimate view of the Iraq War. From my living room [...]

Staff Sgt Francisco 'Paco' Martinez, a member of the 610th Security Forces Squadron, drove toward Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Fort Worth, Texas, in the dark hours before dawn. [...]

A New England regiment comes home. OVER THE YEARS, MY WIFE AND I have developed an ear for war. After reporting from the Middle East for most of the last […]

A lot runs through the mind of an infrantry-team leader of an Army National Guard unit preparing to deploy to Iraq. Civilian life sloughs off like a snakeskin, revealing something [...]

Byline: Michael Ware The Iraq War is finished. But for soldiers who fought there, and for journalists who covered the bloodiest battles, closure is yet to come. I'm told the [...]

Byline: Benjamin Busch A marine Officer who served two tours of duty shares memories of his time in Iraq and what the return home has meant. The nights are still [...]

It is January in Iraq, the evening temperature has dropped below freezing and we're on another mission, rolling down the highway. I've geared up with layers of undergarments for warmth [...]

Byline: Kimberly Dozier A reporter, wounded in Iraq, fights to keep people from looking away. It's hard to shake the whole 'I almost died' thing. Put another way, many very [...]

It's easy to forget how daunting and dangerous everything seemed on the eve of the Iraq War. U.S. forces were braced for the worst. Hardly anyone believed Iraq's claims that […]

Byline: Dan Ephron and Christian Caryl (With Lee Hudson Teslik and Sarah Childress in New York) Robert Secher had a passion for history. Until his death in Iraq on Oct. [...]

I'm reading Stars and Stripes one day at lunch, my rifle on the floor between my feet, before we start the workday, driving our Humvees around western Baghdad. There's an [...]

Q: Your new book,''Love My Rifle More Than You,'' brings a chick-lit sensibility to your stories about life in Iraq and essentially characterizes our male soldiers as so many frat [...]

Byline: Fareed Zakaria (Write the author at comments@fareedzakaria.com.) It might seem obvious to say that Baghdad is in bad shape, but that's the first thing I noticed when I was [...]

Byline: Melinda Liu After three weeks of war, Saddam City looked to me like an Arab version of 'Blade Runner.' Donkey carts and rattletrap taxis trundled through the vast Baghdad [...]

ROSES ARE IN BLOOM in Baghdad. In a little walled garden, I sit and rock in an old two-seater swing. From here, the war is an auditory experience: a missile [...]

As the war in Iraq is debated and turned into history, the emphasis will be on the role of technology -- precision bombing, cruise missiles, decapitation strikes. That was what [...]

First off I want people to understand that there is more than just combat. We're not seeing fighting at all times. Sometimes accidents happen. The other night, a good friend [...]

Byline: Arian Campo-Flores Last Wednesday at around 3 p.m., in a patch of Iraqi desert where the 3-7 Infantry Battalion is camped, the wind whipped into a frenzy and the [...]

Third Battalion, Fourth Marine Regiment, Iraq, March 26, 2003 Justin King (foreground): ''When you're in the Humvee during a sandstorm, it's kind of scary. We had spent all night in [...]

I received an e-mail in late October from the CHIPS editor, Sharon Anderson, who asked me if I would write about my experiences here and what I am doing. So [...]

When I was deployed to Iraq in the spring of 2004, I knew of no other gay soldiers in my division. I was worried it would be one long, lonely, [...]

GEERT VAN KESTEREN IS AN AWARDwinning Dutch photojournalist based in Amsterdam. He and his wife Conny Luhulima-whose family comes from Maluka in Indonesia--have two children. 'I work abroad,' he says. [...]

I would not regard myself as superstitious, but 13 April 2003 was not what I would call a lucky day. It was the 22nd day of the ground war in [...]

Scenes from Baghdad, late May and June. On a field in the Jihad neighborhood is every little boy's fantasy. Several dozen abandoned Iraqi tanks lie beside bushes and palm trees. [...]

CDR John 'Germ' Geragotelis The first A-Day strike of Operation Iraqi Freedom, on the long night of March 21, had elements of the routine to it, but weird things come [...]

Just back from nearly a week in Qatar, country WUSN (US99) Chicago OM/morning man Tom Rivers has a renewed appreciation for the troops and the job they're doing in Operation [...]