"On the night of February 27, 1991, a tense silence settled over the war-torn skies above Baghdad. Mere hours before the impending ceasefire, two General Dynamics F-111F aircraft laden with mighty GBU ...

As the Persian Gulf War was coming to a close, the coalition forces against the Iraqi government aimed for one last push.

Many experts wrote off the battleship before 1991—but that year, they proved key to ensuring America’s decisive, rapid victory over Saddam Hussein’s Iraqi Army.

About 8,000 of the 30,000 "surge" troops sent to Iraq in 2007 will not go home as planned this summer, the Pentagon said Monday. Support troops -- including helicopter crews, supply units, military ...

John Martinkus made his name reporting on conflict. He was one of the first journalists to cover East Timor’s brutal struggle ...

While the American people may have been ignorant of the foreign policy history of the 1990s to their detriment, and politicians—whether sincere or not—expressed ...

Iraq remains the last stronghold in the region that continues to serve as a base for Iranian-backed groups,” said Iraqi ...

In the first week of September 2025, Iraq’s Kataib Hezbollah concluded it had no option but to release Israeli-Russian ...

“Unlike the left, we don’t believe in erasing American history—we honor it,” Hegseth said after announcing the return of the Ezekiel sculpture. That claim is hard to square with Trump’s recent ...

C ranes sprout above the Baghdad skyline. The shriek of electric saws echoes across the city. Under the heavy summer sun, workers lay a new pavement outside a chic fromagerie. Baghdad is enjoying a ...

Some 39,000 people, mainly from Syria and Iraq, live in the camp “in UN-style refugee tents”, said Richard Ashmore at the ...