8,000 US troops marched in triumph through the streets of their nation’s capital having returned from the Persian Gulf where they had just ousted Saddam Hussein’s Iraqi Army from Kuwait in one ...

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 ...

A decadeslong history of violent conflict is among the reasons that countries in the region are opposed to providing a haven ...

The Kurds have spent a century fighting for autonomy and confronting brutal repression by Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran.

Paramilitary forces in the Middle East are some of the largest in the world. They work in a region where traditional military operations are often tied in with internal security or even tribal ...

The original Soviet-era missiles performed poorly in accuracy tests, but Iraqi modifications made them far worse.

Wealthy Arab nations consider bankrolling Gaza’s reconstruction, but they want assurances Palestinians will lead in the ...

Military reserve forces in the Middle East make up an important component of any army within the region. These units provide additional manpower and capabilities to regular military forces, should the ...

The Iraqi government then and later under the subsequent dictatorship of Saddam ... civil war, and fought with Arafat’s PLO, eventually helping to expel him to Tunisia. The Persian Gulf ...