Stories of missing drugs, of desperately ill-equipped doctors and of patients left to suffer the consequences are everywhere in Iraq's public health care system. Some hospitals are filthy and infested with bugs. Others are practically falling down. More and more, the blame is being placed on Iraq's U.S.-backed government, which by many accounts is infested with corruption and incompetence.
Iraq's once-envied health care system lost to war, corruption
:focal(1285x1016:1286x1017)/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer_public/d1/4e/d14ed238-3b62-4506-9f53-fc2178dade60/nov2025_d17_prologue.jpg)
In the fall of 1945, a bit more than six years after Nazi Germany invaded Poland...
In 2021, a book titled “The Human-Machine Team: How to Create Synergy Between Human and Artificial...
On Monday, August 6, 1945, after six months of intense firebombing of 67 other Japanese cities,...
The last plane carrying U.S. forces left Afghanistan on Monday, meeting an Aug. 31 deadline to withdraw...
