But the decision to invade defied an even larger truth, one that was clear even before the war. Iraq provided a physical and practical buffer to Iran, a country that few disputed had an active ...

There is one war, however, that complicates the conventional wisdom on chemical weapons: the protracted Iran-Iraq War. In that conflict, chemical weapons were arguably decisive in allowing Iraq to ...

Iranians, regardless of their grievances, appear to prioritize national cohesion when confronted with external or ...

Iraq invaded Iran on 22 September 1980, triggering a bitter eight-year war which destabilised the region and devastated both countries. The then Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein claimed as a reason for the ...

while simultaneously trying to avoid direct war with Iran. This came Friday night in the form of some 85 strikes against targets in Iraq and Syria linked either to Iranian militias or Iran’s ...

The Iran-Iraq War became one of the bloodiest conflicts of the modern era, killing nearly two million and leaving both nations devastated. Sparked by Saddam Hussein’s invasion in 1980 ...

During the Iran-Iraq War, both sides launched many airstrikes against each other's airbases. But one of these airstrikes really stands out - the Iranian attack on the Iraqi H-3 airbase complex. Why is ...

“Trump is ready to take the war with us to worse levels ... These forces “must respond to Iraq’s commander-in-chief and not to Iran,” the department said in a statement.

for Iran’s wars in Yemen, Syria, and Lebanon; for China’s threats against Taiwan and its oppression of the Uyghur people. If the U.S. could launch a war because it felt threatened by Iraq, why ...

Erbil, Iraq — An Iran-backed militia group in Iraq claimed ... as Israel continues its war against Hamas, which is also backed by Iran, in the Gaza Strip. The U.S. and the U.K. launched strikes ...