Images of Halabja shocked the world, but few governments moved to condemn or stop Saddam's war against the Kurds. The United States government, which had backed Iraq in its recent war against Iran ...

A fter the Iranian Revolution of 1979 and the start of the Iran Hostage Crisis, Iran fought its neighbor Iraq for eight years. This war—the largest industrialized war since World War II ...

Though the United Nations refused to bless the U.S.-led attack on Iraq, the world body will have a role ... Critics have accused the United States of using the war as a pretext to seize control ...

Despite recently closing hundreds of bases in Iraq and Afghanistan ... What effect do they have around the world, and are they really making us safer? The first step is looking at where U.S ...

Iraq is severely affected by mines and unexploded ordnance (UXO) as a result of the 1991 Gulf War, the 1980-1988 Iraq-Iran War, two decades of internal conflict, and even World War Two.