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 in check, as the United States armed forces were able to...

Iraq invaded Kuwait in August 1990, and this event led to the first major United Nations (UN) military campaign since the Korean War of the early 1950s. Although the UN Security Council unanimously, and within hours of the invasion, passed Resolution...

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 deliberately committed by the Iraqi army. There were extensive press coverage...

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 terms of the agreement, Iran undertook to cease supporting the Iraqi...

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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 1991 war report more symptoms of illness than do soldiers who didn't...

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, the Foreign Ministry said Thursday.Vorontsov died Wednesday in Moscow, the...

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, the Institute said. The degenerative nerve disease, formally known as amyotrophic...

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 to shooting his three young sons and their half-sister in 1997 in the town of...