Saddam Hussein’s forces sported some of the most advanced Soviet equipment around. Had the Cold War ever turned hot, given ...

Saddam Hussein did not possess stockpiles of illicit weapons at the time of the U.S. invasion in March 2003 and had not begun any program to produce them, a CIA report concludes. In fact, the ...

As the military coalition aligned against Saddam Hussein’s forces launched airstrikes to begin the first Gulf War, Iraq ...

When the Gulf War ended, the United States government believed the Iraqis would quickly overthrow Saddam Hussein. But nine years later, he still rules Iraq. FRONTLINE investigates Saddam's ...

Saddam Hussein's engineers and soldiers turned it into a desert after the Persian Gulf war of 1991, but during the past three years—thanks to a dismantling of dikes and dams built on Saddam's ...

Saddam Hussein, Iraq’s authoritarian president from 1979 to 2003, ruled through violent repression, including genocide, ...

Saddam Hussein's armoury of chemical weapons is on ... Evidence he has retained up to 20 al-Hussein missiles from the Gulf War. These could be used with chemical, biological or nuclear warheads ...

THE late President of Egypt, Anwar Sadat (May God have mercy on him) made several statements that proved prophetic. One such ...

Gulf 1990 Gulf 1990 describes the initial assault of Saddam Hussein's Iraqi troops against Kuwait, and the following options that follow. Irak may play for time, or else invade immediately after ...

ISBN:1591149428 While the Coalition side of the 1990-1991 Gulf War ... the "100 Hour War." This is particularly valuable when the Iraqi slant on some of the events and operations is compared to the ...

President Saddam Hussein announced on Friday the end of a month-long campaign for volunteers to fight Israel, saying more than six million Iraqis had come forward. Volunteers between October 10 and ...

Learn how Saddam Hussein ruled Iraq with an iron fist for almost 30 years. To maintain power, he used fear, intimidation and violence like few other dictators in history, but he made the fatal ...