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 ...

Another day, another country left to the tender mercies of terrorists. Going by his own arbitrary, purely political deadline, this president and now only nominal Leader of the Free World has been ...

Two years ago, insurgents blew up a sacred Shiite mosque in Samarra, Iraq. Rather than counter the insurgency, the U.S. military and the Iraqi government shut the city down. Now, the mosque is being ...