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Two books shed new light on the toppled dictator's final days—and what the U.S. still doesn’t understand about Iraq.

A private contractor tossed U.S. military waste in Iraq and Afghanistan into giant pits and burned it. Now soldiers forced to breathe the toxic fumes are sick or dying—and the government is using faulty science to evade responsibility.

The senator has developed a reputation for wonkishness without the policies to back it up

Christian fighters, ISIS invaders, and the fight for Iraq’s Nineveh Plains