[i]n a top secret letter, written in 1987 by the Director-General of Al Muthanna [a large chemical weapons production and storage facility near Baghdad] to senior government officials, the importance ...

On April 8, 1991, the UN Security Council adopted Resolution 687, the first post-Gulf War disarmament resolution, which declared, among other things, that Iraq not commit or support any act of ...

President Trump’s threat to target Iran’s “power plants” recalls the 1991 Desert Storm campaign to evict Saddam Hussein’s t ...

Israel’s wars in the Middle East changed forever in the predawn hours of January 18, 1991. That’s when Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein responded to George H.W. Bush’s invasion of Iraq by firing eight ...

Some years after the most successful U.S. war of recent decades — the 1991 rout of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein’s forces from Kuwait — Gen. Colin Powell articulated the principles that guided the ...

BAGHDAD, Aug 21 (Reuters) - Former commanders of Saddam Hussein's military go on trial in Baghdad on Tuesday for their role in crushing a Shi'ite rebellion in southern Iraq at the end of the 1991 Gulf ...

President Saddam Hussein accused allied nations Wednesday of attempting to undermine Iraq's recovery by maintaining economic sanctions. Hussein's 45-minute televised address _ his first public speech ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty Driving through Baghdad in the days before the Gulf War in January ...

It has often been repeated that the reason Iraqis haven’t greeted American forces with flowers and smiles is that the U.S. failed to come to the aid of those Iraqis who–with the encouragement of the ...

The Gulf War (1990–1991) was triggered by Iraq President Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait over oil disputes and war debts after the end of the Iran-Iraq War (1980–1988) A US-led Coalition of 35 ...