Dexter Filkins

U.S. officials are talking with local Iraqi insurgent leaders to exploit a rift that has opened between homegrown insurgents and radical groups like Al Qaeda, and to draw the local...

U.S. Marines battled their way into the heart of this city Monday, but they appeared to be stepping into just the sort of urban imbroglio they long had been hoping...

Justin Mundu, a guard at the gate outside the Paradise Hotel, figured something was wrong when he spotted an SUV racing past the hotel in reverse. Mundu, who narrowly survived...

After weeks of uncertainty over the fate of Osama bin Laden, senior administration officials said last week they had fresh indications that he had survived the bombing assault on Tora...