Generally speaking, starting a war out of the blue is a bad idea. This is the lesson, if such was needed, of the utterly ...
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 ...
Perhaps Yitro was not just looking for a God to believe in but a nation to be part of. In the splitting of the sea and the war of Amalek, Jethro found a special destiny embedded in Jewish peoplehood, ...
A decadeslong history of violent conflict is among the reasons that countries in the region are opposed to providing a haven for the war-weary Gazans.
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 ...
Kuwait’s location at the northern edge of the Persian Gulf has heavily influenced ... which precipitated the Gulf War. Saddam Hussein’s push into Kuwait was largely driven by disputes over ...
Here’s What You Need to Remember: As with any counterfactual, it’s difficult to grapple with the full implications of the death of Saddam Hussein during the 1991 Gulf War. A successful..
The Kurds have spent a century fighting for autonomy and confronting brutal repression by Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran.