The Iran-Iraq War became one of the bloodiest conflicts of the modern era, killing nearly two million and leaving both ...

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Why should we believe the war cheerleaders that this time will be more successful? Iran is not Iraq circa 2003, nor is it some tinpot dictatorship ripe for a Predator-drone makeover. It’s a ...

Tehran’s most powerful regional ally — has chosen to stay on the sidelines. The Lebanon-based group, weakened by last year’s ...

That’s true even in Ukraine. The last major large-scale conflict to devolve into trench stalemates was the Iran-Iraq War of the 1980s. Both sides found themselves dug in for years, with major ...

In April 1915, the German army tried a new tactic to break through allied trenches on the front ... There is one war, however, that complicates the conventional wisdom on chemical weapons: the ...

Former U.N. diplomat Giandomenico Picco, whose negotiating skills helped resolve some of the thorniest crises of the 1980s and 1990s, including the Iran-Iraq war and the kidnappings of Westerners ...

Former U.N. diplomat Giandomenico Picco, whose negotiating skills helped resolve some of the thorniest crises of the 1980s and 1990s, including the Iran-Iraq war and the kidnappings of Westerners ...