On June 8th 1991 in Washington DC, 8,000 US troops marched in triumph through the streets of their nation’s capital having ...
It has been almost a quarter century since the 1991 Gulf War which began with Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait in August 1990. The war began with Operation Desert Storm on January 17 ...
Wealthy Arab nations consider bankrolling Gaza’s reconstruction, but they want assurances Palestinians will lead in the ...
And the Iraqi variant of the Scud, the Al-Hussein ... these attacks by Saddam that brought the Scud missile system into the American public’s attention. During the Gulf War, Iraq fired around ...
After eight grueling years of fighting with the Islamic Republic of Iran, Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein ultimately agreed ... these kinds of tactics in the Gulf War, which first established air ...
Jimmy Carter, the centenarian former president who lived long enough to see Donald Trump elected again but died just before the start of the new year, has a foreign policy legacy that wasn't just ...
It was a routine, twice-weekly flight from Iran to Dubai, where the Airbus 300 airliner would fly just 30 minutes across the Persian Gulf before ... had provided Saddam Hussein's Iraq with ...
US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld helped Saddam Hussein build up his arsenal ... who is building up troops in the Gulf in preparation for a war with Iraq that is generally expected to start ...
The Gulf War ... After the Iran-Iraq War of the 1980s, Iraq was in debt to Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates, which had financed its war efforts. Iraqi President Saddam Hussein insisted both ...
In the days following George W Bush’s ‘Mission Accomplished’ speech on a US warship just returned from the Persian Gulf ... its struggle to the death with Saddam Hussein: a Shiite regime in Baghdad.
The nature of Iran’s relations with the United States and the type of security architecture that emerges in the Persian Gulf are ... years, Saddam’s regime imposed a massive war of aggression ...