Image: Ashley Gilbertson/ Photographer Ashley Gilbertson arrived in Iraq on the eve of the U.S. invasion, unclear what he was doing there. Years after he left the country, he is still figuring it out.

Kamaran Najm started the first photo agency in Iraq in 2009. He wanted to train local photographers to tell stories about Iraq that were not just about war. And then in June of 2014, he was kidnapped ...

In the photograph, the man is wearing a dark suit, a light-colored shirt and striped tie. His head is slightly downturned, as if he is carefully watching where he is stepping. And he's carrying a ...

Hongkonger Thomas Chan initially saw photography as a way to preserve the memories of his travels. For the avid explorer, photos became a visual diary. But he wanted to delve deeper into his craft. “I ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. Freelance photographer Moises Saman’s pictures from Iraq made the cover of The New York Times both days last weekend. Taken in ...

Former Navy SEAL Ray Mendoza says that he spent a lot of time as a military adviser at different film locations — and he learned how not to make a war movie. So when he finally got the opportunity to ...

CAIRO — It travels with me, shrunken, stained, unwanted. I try to get rid of it, but no one will take AJ55758031. They hold it to the light, tug at its edges, hand it back with whispered disgust. “Not ...

Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. To shift the focus further east for a few minutes, we turn today to that other Middle East conflict, Iraq, and ...

We look at the political consequences of the President's determination to "stay the course" in Iraq. We'll also look at the reality on the ground. Will the current strategy accomplish the mission? Is ...

WASHINGTON – His now-infamous claim that “we will be greeted as liberators" will forever tie former Vice President Dick Cheney to the Iraq War launched soon after his fateful March 2003 remarks. But ...

Qamar Hashim is an 8-year-old Iraqi photographer. He tours famous streets to picture Baghdadis with his single camera and is the youngest Iraqi photographer to win several local awards, according to ...