And because the U.S. military was unprepared for the kind of fight it found itself in during the Iraq War, the lessons to be learned is that the Americans should not become so rigid on things like ...

Paramilitary forces in the Middle East are some of the largest in the world. They work in a region where traditional military ...

On March 20, 2003, the United States led a coalition to invade Iraq (herein Iraq II). Iraq I had occurred as a result of an ...

Water buffalo gently glide through shallow water canals that snake throughout Iraq’s southern Mesopotamian Marshes, their ...

Iranian officials have been unnerved by the Assad regime's collapse, with one top general admitting the country was "defeated ...

"Death, death to Saddam!" chanted Imam Husham Al-Husainy through a megaphone at a pro-war rally broadcast by C-SPAN in ...

For instance, in Iraq, Saddam Hussein used chemical weapons against them, and in Iran, their uprisings in the 1980s and 1990s were violently suppressed. In 1978, Abdullah Öcalan founded the Kurdistan ...

Nearly a week into the full-scale invasion of USA and Britain into Iraq, Saddam Hussein on March 24th 2003 was reported as saying: “These forces have pushed into our land and wherever they ...

In Iraq, Iran was a major beneficiary of the United States’ 2003 war, which, by removing Saddam Hussein from power ... objective would be to preserve the system created by the 1979 revolution. That ...

In fact, the actions in 2003-04 endangered ... about Iraq’s possession of weapons of mass destruction. Then, and since, Howard confesses that in this respect he regrets that he was wrong, but in any ...

A court filing said the prisoner was at risk for abuse and might not be able to get adequate health care if transferred. By Carol Rosenberg An Iraqi who pleaded guilty to commanding insurgents who ...

culminating in the rise of Saddam Hussein in 1979. Under Saddam, Iraq experienced initial stability but suffered greatly from wars with Iran and Kuwait. These conflicts, along with the US invasion in ...