The guy President Barack Obama telephoned the other day to congratulate him on his nomination for Iraq ambassador isn't getting the job. Not only that, but General Anthony Zinni wasn't even told that the Obama administration had changed its mind. It's not often that you get someone unloading like this so publicly but Zinni, a former head of CENTCOM who outspokenly opposed the Iraq w...

US President Barack Obama is in Iraq for talks with Iraqi leaders and to see US troops at the end of a trip to Europe.

Barack Obama is on the brink of announcing his plan to withdraw US troops from Iraq amid reports it might include a three-month extension to the mission

Contrary to what the media are telling you, Barack Obama is not in any real sense visiting Iraq. He is visiting a US base which, under the Status of Forces Agreement, is US territory under US legal jurisdiction. He is not visiting Iraq any more than a vist to Guananamo Bay (Good Lord! Is that still open? What happened?) would be a visit to Cuba. Which is a point worth making as he delivers an almi...

Opponents of the Iraq war who also supported Barack Obama for president may have been surprised that he should say a thing like this: Under enormous strain and under enormous sacrifice, through controversy and difficulty and politics, you've kept your...

Barack Obama, who has spent an extraordinary percentage of his adult life running for office, will soon be padding his dossier by touring Iraq. The NYT's Jim Rutenberg reports: Senator John McCain's trip to Iraq last spring was a low-key affair: With his ordinary retinue of reporters following him abroad, the NBC News anchor Brian Williams

Barack Obama sought to address allegations that he was prevaricating over policy on Iraq and Iran, declaring his intention to pull out most US troops from Iraq in 16 months after taking office and a willingness to meet Iran's leadership

President Barack Obama is facing warnings that the US risks repeating some of its errors in Iraq as the new administration turns its focus to Afghanistan, where Nato forces are engaged in a conflict which has already lasted longer than the Second World War.

If the Iraq War had not happened Barack Obama would not be president. If most Washington Democrats had not discredited themselves in the eyes of the Democratic base by voting for the war, a first term Senator—even one with Obama’s political talents and appeal—would not have been able to win the party’s nomination. In the Democratic primaries, Obama proposed a 16 month withd...

I've just had a meeting with Barack Obama, which was very positive, and covered a lot of subjects. We discussed Iran, Afghanistan and Iraq, and his views on the Middle East Peace Process. We also talked about the economic difficulties both in the US and here in Britain.