Key topics covered in the course include: nationalism in Mussadiq's Iran and Qasim's Iraq; the Arab Cold War and the civil war in Yemen; the Cold War politics of reform in Mohammad Reza Shah's Iran ...

Iraq veterans diagnosed with extremely rare disease that 'shows Gulf War Syndrome exists'.

A top-secret document from August 1990 was compiled shortly after Iraq invaded Kuwait, triggering the Persian Gulf War. The document summarized the various moves made by Washington in 1987 during ...

The U.S. used 117,634 landmines in Iraq and Kuwait during the 1991 Gulf War. Of these ... approximately 90,000 antipersonnel mines in the Persian Gulf region in Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar ...

HW Bush acted to initiate a war in Iraq instead of imposing economic sanctions, drawing criticism from the American people and members of Congress.

The Gulf War occurred in two phases, Operation Desert Shield, from August 1990 to January 1991where troops were deployed to the Persian Gulf, and Desert Storm from January 1991 to February 1991, a ...

The IRGC also staged naval war games in the Persian Gulf as its ground forces carried out a second round of maneuvers in southwestern Iran, focusing on rapid deployment and combat readiness. In ...

Japan’s diplomatic documents worked out three decades ago during the Persian Gulf crisis, triggered by Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait in the year after the Cold War ended, were recently ...

Decades after World War II, USS Wisconsin and USS Missouri were pulled from retirement, modernized, and sent into action once more—this time, in the Persian Gulf. As Saddam Hussein’s invasion ...

Friday's raids occurred just a week before new U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell tours the Persian ... Iraq, established to protect Kurdish and Shiite Muslim minority populations after the Gulf ...

Iran has dismissed reports that its oil tankers seized by US forces in the Persian Gulf were operating under false Iraqi ...

That changed in August of 1990, when Iraq invaded Kuwait and kicked off the Persian Gulf War. A war that the U.S. was about to be an active participant in. Aladdin was slated for release in the ...