Remember The First Gulf War? Persian Gulf War? Desert Storm and/or Desert Shield? They’re all the same war. Whatever we call it now, it was the war that expelled Iraqi troops from Kuwait, checked a ...
Operation Desert Storm was 10 seconds away. Tom O’Neal was about to fire the first shot in the war that would end Saddam Hussein’s occupation of Kuwait. And he didn’t know it. Although the battle plan ...
Twenty years after the first Gulf War began: a familiar enemy, but a different result. On August 2, 1990, after a massive troop buildup, Iraq invaded Kuwait. As the West and the remainder of the Arab ...
Two months after the Iraqi invasion, Kuwait's rulers decided they needed a bit of investigatory work. There had long been rumors that Saddam Hussein had billions of dollars squirreled away in secret ...
Iraq and its national carrier Iraq Airways will pay $300million to Kuwait Airways in compensation for Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait almost two decades ago, an Iraqi government spokesman said ...
— -- In an address from the Oval Office as airstrikes against Iraq began on Jan. 16, 1991, then-President George H.W. Bush said Saddam Husssein had left the United States no other options. In ...
KUWAIT CITY - Iraq's interim president on Saturday visited this small oil-rich state that Saddam Hussein invaded in 1990 and occupied for seven months until U.S.-led forces evicted his army, the first ...