The Secret Casualties of Iraq’s Abandoned Chemical Weapons

By C. J. CHIVERS

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Staff Sgt. James F. Burns in Baghdad in 2004.

The Pentagon kept silent as munitions left over from Saddam Hussein’s war with Iran found new targets from 2004 to 2011: American and Iraqi troops.

Video: Chemical Secrets of the Iraq War

2 Israeli Soldiers Wounded by Gun and Missile Fire From Egypt

By ISABEL KERSHNER

The attack came from the rugged desert terrain of the Sinai Peninsula, where Islamic militants have been battling Egyptian forces.

From left: Paul A. Slough, Dustin L. Heard, Nicholas A. Slatten and Evan S. Liberty.

Former Blackwater Guards Convicted in Iraq Shooting

By MATT APUZZO

Four former Blackwater Worldwide security contractors were convicted Wednesday on charges stemming from a deadly 2007 shooting in Iraq.

Video: Behind the Blackwater Trial

David S. Cohen says his role at the Treasury is his dream job. “I’m able to touch pretty much every single national security issue we’re facing,” he said.

Enforcer at Treasury Is First Line of Attack Against ISIS

By JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS

David Cohen, a Treasury under secretary, discusses the battle to choke off the flow of illicit revenue to the Islamic State.

U.N. Cites ISIS Genocide Threat

A senior United Nations official said on Tuesday that the Islamic State had threatened to exterminate minority Yazidis in Iraq by killing them if they refused to convert to Islam.

An explosion in Kobani, Syria. Turkey said it would let Iraqi Kurds cross into Syria to fight the Islamic State there.

Turkey to Let Iraqi Kurds Cross to Syria to Fight ISIS

By KAREEM FAHIM and KARAM SHOUMALI

Turkey, in an apparent shift, said that it would facilitate the movement of Iraqi Kurdish forces to the embattled Syrian city of Kobani to join the battle against militants.

Arrests Follow Acid Attacks on Iranian Women

By THOMAS ERDBRINK

The police arrested several men following episodes that appear connected to a new law on “badly veiled” women.

40 Are Killed in Attacks Targeting Shiites in Iraq

By KIRK SEMPLE

A flurry of attacks included a quadruple car bombing near two of the holiest shrines in Shiite Islam, killing 40, officials said.

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In Iraq, Trains Herald Both Progress and Loss

Riding the train feels like an act of nostalgia, representing connection in a place where people are increasingly detached from one another.

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Medical Records of U.S. Casualties of Iraq’s Chemical Weapons

American troops gradually found and ultimately suffered from the remnants of long-abandoned programs, built in close collaboration with the West.

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Duelfer Report on Chemical Weapons in Iraq

A 2004 report by the Iraq Survey Group and presented by Charles A. Duelfer, an adviser to the director of central intelligence and a former United Nations’ inspection official, acknowledged that chemical weapons were turning up in Iraq, and predicted that troops would find more.

The museum is within the Al-Mathaf Hotel, and displays 350 artifacts, including tools, coins and jars, from the Islamic, crusader, Roman and Byzantine periods.

Safeguarding Gaza’s Ancient Past

By KATE SHUTTLEWORTH

Jawdat Khoudary, an entrepreneur and collector of art and antiquities, keeps Gaza's rich history available to the public at the Gaza Museum of Archeology.