The Iran-Iraq War became one ... s invasion in 1980, the war dragged into a brutal stalemate filled with trench warfare, chemical attacks, and relentless human wave assaults.

Majli, 57, can recall in detail the torture he says he endured by U.S. soldiers during the 16 months he was held in the notorious prison in Iraq ... in a grotesque human pyramid.

More than 2,500 years ago, the Assyrians in Nineveh built the first great empire in human history. Excelling in science, engineering and warfare, they were the beginnings of modern civilization.

At the urging of the United States, the UN imposed sanctions on Iraq within four days of Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait in August 1990. After the short war in January – February 1991 forced ...

A US marine frisks an Iraqi man entering the Abu Ghraib prison to visit a relative in May 2004 — RAMZI HAIDAR Twenty years after invading Iraq, the United States ... hooded prisoners in a human ...

Today marks the twentieth anniversary of the U.S. ground invasion of Iraq. Two decades after ... the rationale for war was rotten. Despite its advocates’ stated aims of protecting national security ...

This week marks the 20th anniversary of the beginning of our engagement in Iraq. For those who saw the war up close ... judiciary that respected human rights, training professional security ...

One of the most realistic war movies ever made is opening in theaters, and there couldn’t be a more opportune time for the viewing public to experience what combat feels like. In real life, the ...

March 20 (Reuters) - Louis Charbonneau covered the UN weapons inspections prior to the Iraq war and later became UN bureau chief. He is now UN director at Human Rights Watch. It was March 6 ...