Persian Gulf War
In March 1975, after years of more or less overt hostility, Iran and Iraq signed what appeared to be a comprehensive settlement of their differences, the Algiers Agreement. Under term...
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Gulf War
In the early nineties, the Gulf War marked a new dawn for American hegemony. Former adversaries of American militarism—the Communists, the Arabs, and the American left—were held...
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Persian Gulf War
The Persian Gulf War in 1991 had a variety of environmental consequences for the Middle East. The most devastating of these effects were from the oil spills and oil fires deliberate...
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The unexplained symptoms that afflict thousands of Gulf War veterans don't constitute a single illness, a federally funded study concludes.
Even though U.S. and foreign veterans of the 199...
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Veteran diplomat Yuli Vorontsov, who served the Soviet Union and Russia as ambassador to Afghanistan and the United States in a career spanning the Cold War and the Gulf War, has died at age 78, th...
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Military service, particularly in the Gulf War, may be linked to development of Lou Gehrig's disease, the Institute of Medicine said Friday. The evidence, however, is limited and inconsistent,...
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A man convicted of murdering four children with an assault rifle was executed Wednesday, becoming the first Tennessee inmate put to death by electrocution since 1960.Daryl Holton, 45, had confessed...
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Karl Rove, with his latest Wall Street Journal op-ed, becomes one of the countless political observers to bemoan the excessively lengthy presidential campaign process. He (and everyone else before ...
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As Hillary Clinton herself might put it, it is frankly naïve to be surprised when convenient historical revisions come out of Bill Clinton’s mouth.The latest retroactive adjustment is B...
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