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Iraq and the Fires of Its Neighbors
I once asked a man who had worked in Saddam Hussein’s palace whether he had ever heard him swear. “No, he did not have a habit of swearing. He would fall silent when he became angry, but sparks would ...
Seth Cropsey’s recommendation is based more on hope than good sense.
An interview with Steve Coll, author of the new book, The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the CIA, and the Origins of ...
H E WAS KILLED by an Israeli air strike in Lebanon last year. Yet the face of Hassan Nasrallah, formerly the boss of ...
Apollo 11 launched, carrying 1st men to land on Moon. The largest crowd in sporting history was 199,854. They watched the ...
The journalist Tim Weiner investigates the mishaps that ensued when American intelligence scrambled to remake itself after ...
In 1990, the world watched in disbelief as Saddam Hussein’s Iraqi army invaded Kuwait, triggering a global crisis. What ...
The Trump administration's May 2025 announcement in Riyadh, and subsequent executive order in June, lifting all sanctions on ...
A veteran South Australian soldier has revealed he was part of one of the world’s most elite military units, which involved ...
The Persian Gulf War was a showcase of the combined arms capability of the United States. Yet, Iraq still had a formidable ...
An Iranian survivor of chemical warfare has penned a forceful open letter to German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, accusing ...
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the intergovernmental body that assesses compliance with the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, was barred from going within about 40 miles of the affected ...