“This is a sad history,” Richard Kohn says. “The banishing of the Iraqi military and the Baath Party by U.S. officials at the end of the war made it impossible to occupy and rebuild the countr ...

Embassy Deputy Military Attache Colonel Ali Ahmed Amoori, and Carabinieri's official Pasquale De Palo, speaks during a ceremony at the Iraqi embassy in Rome for the restitution to Iraq of some ...