Operation Desert Storm was 10 seconds away. Tom O’Neal was about to fire the first shot in the war that would end Saddam ...

Nonproliferation experts believe Iraq’s nuclear program went underground after Israel destroyed its reactor just outside ...

Overhanging the 1991 debate was the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, which formed the base rationale for U.S. involvement in ...

Saddam's wife, Sajida Talfah, fled Iraq and took refuge in Jordan, where she began a life of obscurity with some of her children. His eldest daughter, Raghad Hussein, was not spared either.

A Scot held captive by Saddam Hussein after a BA flight was sent into a war zone hopes a new documentary will help in his long fight for justice. Air steward Charlie Kristiansson was one of 385 ...

Iraq’s top court will resume work after nine judges returned following the retirement of its president. The Supreme Judicial ...

On the 2nd August 1990, Saddam Hussein surprises the world and invades Kuwait. Four hours later BA flight 149 from London lands in Kuwait City for a scheduled stop with over 400 passengers on board.

Without a major change in the Iranian government, there remains a significant potential for future threats to oil supplies ...

The president who campaigned on avoiding long-term conflicts in the Middle East may have just committed the United States to ...

The place was Kuwait International Airport, where the flight had made an apparently routine landing for refuelling. The time was 5am on August 2, 1990. It was the day Iraq invaded the country.