U.S. forces stepped up operations Tuesday across a wide swath of the Sunni insurgent strongholds northwest of Baghdad, pounding targets in two cities from the air and supporting Iraqi troops in raids on mosques suspected of harboring insurgents.

Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction or the immediate capability of producing them prior to the 2003 Iraq War, the chief U.S. weapons inspector for Iraq said in a report released Wednesday.

Ray Suarez discusses the recent wave of kidnappings in Iraq with Bernard Haykel, Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern Studies at New York University, and Mark Levine, Assistant Professor of Middle East History at the University of California at Irvine.

Despite the risks of kidnapping and car bombings, military personnel and humanitarian aid groups in Iraq are working to rebuild the devastated country. Ray Suarez and two experts discuss the challenges international workers face in the country and other setbacks…