Iraq

The dominant media tend to paint violent extremism as an inherently Islamic problem only solvable with the use of force.

Officials' impunity all but guarantees that the next time our country is seized by a spasm of fear, we can expect more crimes.

In our never-ending Iraq wars, the same “lessons” are always there to be absorbed, but no one in Washington ever seems to learn.

Fallujah, as you probably know, is being held by ISIS. None of the residents are allowed to leave.

There has to be a way off this merry-go-round.

When Russian air strikes kill civilians in Syria, it is big news in US newspapers, but there is near-total silence when US bombs kill civilians in Iraq or Syria.

Why was the US public willing to tolerate new US war-making in Iraq and Syria in 2014-2015, after having opposed it in 2013?

Eric Fair served as an interrogator in Iraq working as a military contractor for the private security firm CACI.

There are two militias duking it out in Syria, and the US government is funding them both simultaneously.

There must be no impunity for anyone accused of war crimes and human rights abuses.