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My Daughter Knows Landmines, but Not Depleted Uranium Dust
We took our kids out on a picnic yesterday here in Iraq. Once you get outside of any number of cities in Iraq, the residual presence of Saddam Hussein's landmines become a real threat, still buried...
View ArticleHow I’m Commemorating the Iraq War’s 10th Anniversary
Today marks the 10th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Can you believe that much time has already passed? After living six of those ten years in the country, I’m keenly aware how negative a lot...
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A Story of Unholy Patience, Revenge, & the Renewal of All Things
A Saddam loyalist and local mafioso was assassinated at the end of my street a few weeks ago. My wife watched the immediate aftermath from behind an upstairs curtain, wondering if some kind of tribal...
View ArticleLink Roundup: Iraq & the “ISIS Crisis”
Don't give up on #Iraq // "I'm Sunni" "I'm Shia" "I'm Kurdish" "l'm Christian" Iraqi Army fighting #isis pic.twitter.com/O08py11Mkm— Jeremy Courtney (@JCourt) June 16, 2014 Here are a few articles and...
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