Thomas E. Ricks

In the first insider account of Pentagon decision-making on Iraq, one of the key architects of the war blasts former Secretary of State Colin Powell, the CIA, retired Gen. Tommy...

Iraq has failed to meet all but three of 18 congressionally mandated benchmarks for political, military and economic progress, according to a draft of a Government Accountability Office report. The...

Russian President Vladimir Putin, in some of his harshest criticism of the United States since he took office seven years ago, said Saturday that Washington's unilateral, militaristic approach had made...

The bipartisan Iraq Study Group plans to recommend withdrawing nearly all U.S. combat units from Iraq by early 2008 while leaving behind perhaps 70,000 troops to train, advise and support...

Senate Democrats reacted critically to a report Sunday that the U.S. commander in Iraq privately presented a plan for significant troop reductions in the same week they came under attack...

The Bush administration is studying options for military strikes against Iran as part of a broader strategy of coercive diplomacy to pressure Tehran to abandon its alleged nuclear arms program,...

President Bush plans to appoint a new, higher-ranking military commander for Iraq, capping an overhaul of the command structure that is likely to replace Army Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez as...

Insurgents fighting the U.S.-led occupation force have sharply increased the sophistication, coordination and aggressiveness of their tactics in the past week, Army officers and soldiers involved in combat here said....

President Bush on Thursday appeared to pave the way for U.S. military intervention in Liberia by declaring that America had a "unique history" with the troubled West African country, but...