THE U.S. HAS A LOT OF WORK TO DO IF IT’S GOING TO TAKE BACK IRAQI cities held by insurgents. The job began last week, as 3,000 U.S. and 2,000 Iraqi troops stormed Samarra. In September talks with ...

POTTSVILLE — Two days before what would have been John O’Hara’s 120th birthday, a group of readers got together to discuss the author’s best-known novel, “Appointment in Samarra.” O’Hara — Schuylkill ...

The Golden Dome of the al-Askaria Mosque and its two minarets prior to the bombings in 2006 and 2007. Just as U.S. and Iraqi security forces have begun to get the sectarian violence back to pre ...