Iranians, regardless of their grievances, appear to prioritize national cohesion when confronted with external or ...

GOP lawmakers push for sanctions on Iraq, citing its subjugation by Iran and the need to halt U.S. aid, highlighting past policy failures and security concerns.

Iraq invaded Iran on 22 September 1980, triggering a bitter eight-year war which destabilised the region and devastated both countries. The then Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein claimed as a reason for the ...

The Iran-Iraq War became one of the bloodiest conflicts of the modern era, killing nearly two million and leaving both nations devastated. Sparked by Saddam Hussein’s invasion in 1980 ...

The tribe of late Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is quietly searching for a candidate to represent it in Iraq’s parliamentary ...

The Saddam regime, which received all-out support from the big powers, imposed the war on Iran that lasted until the summer of 1988. Since the beginning of the war, Iran demanded that Iraq be ...

For years Middle Eastern countries have accused the US of double-talk over Iraq. They are bitterly critical that the American government helped arm Saddam during the 1980s in a war against Iran ...

Iranian armed forces liberated the city of Khorramshahr in a large-scale operation code-named Beit al-Moqaddas from the ...

It was also spent battling the forces of Saddam Hussein after Iraq invaded Iran in September 1980, a mere 18 months after the revolution. The Iran-Iraq War began due to a mix of historical ...

The title “Achilles Trap” refers to the mutual entrapment of both Saddam and ... which drove the Iraq War. Intelligence is filtered through worst-case assumptions. Iran’s deterrent posture ...

The Iran-Iraq War. On September 22, 1980, Iraq launched an extensive attack on Iran, igniting a devastating eight years of war. Saddam Hussein, the authoritarian president of Iraq, was driven by a ...

It did, of course. A main reason was the Iran-Iraq War. The September 1980 invasion by Saddam Hussein’s Iraq created a crisis that rallied Iranians around the flag. The military history of the ...