When Iraq invaded Iran in 1980, few expected the war to last nearly a decade. With trench warfare, chemical attacks, and ...

On Wednesday, coinciding with Martyrs' Day, a Tehran court announced a verdict condemning the United States for its role in the brutal killing of Iranian divers captured during Operation Karbala-4 in ...

(August 9, 1980) Six weeks later, Hussein and the Ba’athists used the national wealth to plunge the Iraqi people into a bloody war against Iran. The historical background of the Iran-Iraq War is ...

The extraordinary details have come to light because thousands of State Department documents dealing with the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war have just been declassified and released under the Freedom of ...

How the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s affected the lives of those caught up in it, and how it has cast its shadow over the region to this day ...

The document summarized the various moves made by Washington in 1987 during the Iran-Iraq war. In May 1987, a U.S. Navy ship was attacked by Iraq in the Persian Gulf. The document explained that ...