Iraq’s weaknesses were in fact easy to comprehend after nearly nine years of U.S. economic blockade following the First Gulf War. Iraq had been decimated by American bombing of its electricity ...

April 2: Kaveh Golestan (BBC, U.K.) Golestan, 52, a photojournalist and BBC freelance cameraman, was killed in northern Iraq after stepping on a land mine in the town of Kifri ... covering the Persian ...

The Gulf War (1990-91) was a conflict involving coalition forces from 35 nations, led by the United States, against Iraq. It was sparked by Iraq's invasion and annexation of Kuwait. The war ...

The Samurra Air Battle took place during the First Gulf War, pitting American F-15s against ... blockade of American jets near the Iran-Iraq border. Despite the inconclusive outcome, F-15s were ...

The latest such attack, among hundreds in no-fly zones in northern and southern Iraq since the 1991 Gulf War, was carried out against a surface-to-air (SAM) missile site near An Kut some 150 miles ...

Cordesman's book, The Gulf War, was published in October 1994 ... the key lessons of the land campaign, the war at sea, the battle against Iraq's Scud missiles and weapons of mass destruction, and the ...

and saw a US-led coalition destroy Iraq’s large army. The war can teach us many lessons for today. The Gulf War began a new order in the Middle East and throughout the world. The Soviet Union ...

The recent release of Sir John Chilcot’s inquiry into the origins of the Iraq War has predictably inspired recriminations about that country’s disintegration into political turmoil and ...