note: while there has been voluntary relocation of many Christian families to northern Iraq, recent reporting indicates that the overall Christian population may have dropped by as much as 50% since the fall of the Saddam HUSSEIN regime in 2003, with many fleeing to Syria, Jordan, and Lebanon...
Religious Freedom Rating: na (7 is worst) After the fall of Saddam Hussein, members of underground churches are struggling to practice their faith. The Christian community is largely Assyrian, with some Armenians. About one-third of all Christians fled Iraq in the 1990s. Kuwait Religious Freedom...
About 697,000 US troopswere deployed to the Persian Gulf region, with382 in-theater casualties. Timeline August 2, 1990 -Iraq invades Kuwait. Reportedly,Iraqi leader Saddam Husseindecided to invade the small, oil-rich nation in order to pay off debts incurred during Iraq’s eight-year war wi...
The woman who built Hitler’s bunker had a grandson who went on to design Saddam Hussein’s bunker. He must have been good at his job, because after being fired at by 7 bunker buster bombs and 20 cruise missiles it was pretty much unscratched. It contained a power station, air filtrati...
According to Donald, the U.S. has the ultimate right to do that after investing around $1.5 trillion to throw out Saddam Hussein from Iraq. Stephanopoulos was appalled by this idea and so were many other people. 38) Scottish Golf Course Disagreement ...
Both countries supported Saddam Hussein's regime in theIran-Iraq Warof 1980-1988. In 1990, Iraq invaded Kuwait, and Saudi Arabia called for the U.S. to respond. The Saudi government allowed U.S. and coalition troops to be based in Saudi Arabia and welcomed the Kuwaiti government in exile...
Hostilities between monarchies such as Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and Morocco have been disruptive, as have the conduct of states that have undergone political change such as Egypt under Gamal Abdel Nasser and Libya under Muammar Gaddafi. The attack on Saddam Hussein's Iraq by the United States also...
Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein and the Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, who founded Fatah, nurtured their own dreams of liquidating the Jewish state." ... "Alas, Israelis have built their own dangerous dream palace of 'total victory', erected on a foundation of nationalist fervor, religious messi...