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For three years, the jazz musician and his collaborator Mike Ladd have been working with war veterans-turned-poets to bring their words to light. NPR's Arun Rath speaks with Iyer and Iraq veteran Maurice Decaul about the album that resulted, Holding It Down: The Veterans' Dreams Project.

As the war in Ukraine enters its fourth week, Russia continues targeting civilians.

As Russia’s war with Ukraine escalates, The U.S. and NATO allies are ramping up sanctions.

The U.S. has fully completed its withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan.

Former CIA director's security clearance revoked.

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The Democratic presidential ticket campaigns in the Midwest. NPR's Steve Inskeep joins Sen. John Kerry and Sen. John Edwards as the "Believe in America" tour visits Missouri. The candidates discuss the conflict in Iraq and security at home.

The United States invaded Iraq exactly five years ago. Speaking at the Pentagon, the president said increasing the pace of withdrawal could be a setback to progress.

With public support for his handling of the Iraq war waning and Democrats on the attack, President Bush has been defending himself more aggressively. Monday, in a speech at an Air Force base in Alaska, the president said that Iraq under Saddam Hussein was a threat that needed to be confronted.

Despite news of terrorist bombings and crackdowns in Syria, two recent books argue the world has never seen so little war and violence. Steven Pinker, author of The Better Angels of Our Nature, and Joshua Goldstein, author of Winning the War on War, discuss. Originally broadcast on December 7, 2011.