Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki (AP Photo)

Four years ago Sunday, President George W. Bush summed up U.S. military strategy in Iraq for an audience at Fort Bragg, N.C.: “As the Iraqis stand up, we will stand down.”

It finally has happened. Today…

Call it a deadline, a horizon, a timeline, a time frame or an “aspirational timetable.” Whatever the label, Iraq and the United States finally have agreed on a date by which the United States will have pulled all of its troops…

Obama’s highly anticipated overseas tour, which includes visits to countries throughout the Middle East and Europe, has generated a flurry of news coverage in the U.S. and around the world. One sign of the attention being paid to Obama’s trip:…

You would think that after “Mission Accomplished,” President George W. Bush would have learned to avoid hyperbole when talking about the Iraq war.

As Iraqi security forces were foundering in their recent attempt to dislodge Shiite militias from control of Basra, Iraq’s…