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Why the Iran-Iraq war became the deadliest trench conflict of the late 20th century

This video unpacks how the Iran-Iraq War dragged modern soldiers into trench networks that looked disturbingly similar to ...

A Revived War Documentary, Backed by Steve Bannon, Can’t Decide What It Believes

The 2008 film on the Iraq war, deemed too pro-military at the time, has now been labeled antiwar. Can both be true?
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Iraq War documentary, once shelved by PBS, sees the light 17 years later

Nearly two decades after it was filmed, a new documentary revisits two of the deadliest battles during the early years of the Iraq War by showing the first-person perspective of the men on the ground.

Photos show mourners in Tehran honoring the unknown soldiers killed in the 1980's Iran-Iraq war

Mourners gathered Monday in Iran's capital to honor the unknown soldiers killed in the 1980–88 Iran-Iraq war, whose remains ...
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US, Iran move out of ‘shadow war’ but threat from proxy militias may remain

U.S. soldiers battle Shiite militias in Sadr City, Iraq on May 13, 2008. Photo by Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images. Historically, Iran has relied on its network of proxy forces in Lebanon, Iraq, Yemen, ...
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Iran is losing its stranglehold over Iraq

HE WAS KILLED by an Israeli air strike in Lebanon last year. Yet the face of Hassan Nasrallah, formerly the boss of Hizbullah, is still plastered on posters all over Baghdad, Iraq’s capital. Alongside ...