On April 8, 1991, the UN Security Council adopted Resolution 687, the first post-Gulf War disarmament resolution, which declared, among other things, that Iraq not commit or support any act of ...

Saddam Hussein may have lost his life today. But he really died on Dec. 13, 2003. That was the day he was found by U.S. forces, hiding in a hole on a relative’s farm outside his hometown of Tikrit. No ...

State Rep. Mike Moffett (R-Loudon) is a former Marine Corps infantry officer who chairs the House Committee on State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs. He is currently in Taiwan with a New ...

Driving through Baghdad in the days before the Gulf War in January 1991, I was struck by the giant pictures of Saddam Hussein that lined the streets. Iraqi troops were on every corner. We couldn’t go ...

When US intelligence discovered that Saddam Hussein’s command bunkers were buried 30 to 50 feet underground, there was a serious problem, no American weapon could reach them. Standard bunker-busting ...

Israel’s wars in the Middle East changed forever in the predawn hours of January 18, 1991. That’s when Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein responded to George H.W. Bush’s invasion of Iraq by firing eight ...

It has often been repeated that the reason Iraqis haven’t greeted American forces with flowers and smiles is that the U.S. failed to come to the aid of those Iraqis who–with the encouragement of the ...

B A G H D A D, Iraq, July 1, 2004 -- Defiant, belligerent and a little anxious, former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein appeared before a single Iraqi judge in a courtroom near Baghdad today to hear ...

JERUSALEM, Jan. 24 -- The Israeli defense minister said in an interview published today that during the 1991 Persian Gulf War, President Saddam Hussein had packed his suitcases and picked a place of ...

[JURIST] The Iraqi High Tribunal (IHT) – formerly known as the Iraqi Special Tribunal [official website] – has approved the disinterment of bodies buried in mass graves [AHR backgrounder] southwest of ...

[i]n a top secret letter, written in 1987 by the Director-General of Al Muthanna [a large chemical weapons production and storage facility near Baghdad] to senior government officials, the importance ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty Driving through Baghdad in the days before the Gulf War in January ...