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...

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...

(1990–91), international conflict that was triggered by Iraq's invasion of Kuwait on August 2, 1990. Iraq's leader, &Ssubdot;addām &Hsubdot;ussein, ordered the invasion and occupation of Kuwait with the apparent aim of acquiring that...

(1990–91) International conflict triggered by Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in August 1990. Though justified by Iraqi leader &Ssubdot;addām &Hsubdot;ussein on grounds that Kuwait was historically part of Iraq, the invasion was presumed to be...

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