Goldberg, Ori
The Iran-Iraq War: Sometimes compared to World War I for the tactics used in the war, the Iran-Iraq War cost many resources for both countries. The war, which lasted from 1980 until 1988, heavily damaged the economies of both countries, especially Iran. ...
As we know now, they were never in Iraq, cutting away the rationale for going to war. But next door, Iran, the state most feared by Saddam Hussein, is now accused of being less than a year from a "point of no return" in building its own nuclear bomb - a direct result of the Ir...
The Iran-Iraq War was a military conflict which began when Saddam Hussein, the then-President of Iraq, launched a full-scale invasion in Iran in September of 1980. Iran and Iraq would not conclude the war until peace was brokered in 1988....
the Reagan administration saw Saddam as a useful surrogate. By going to war with Iran, he could bleed the radical mullahs who had seized control of Iran from the pro-American shah. Some Reagan officials even saw Saddam as another Anwar Sadat, capable of making Iraq into a modern secular ...
Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, the Middle East and North Africa Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq, Chad, India and Pakistan (which are among the world's least peaceful countries) Pakistan, Ethiopia and Iran are most at risk for mass displacements Haiti faces the highest risk of all countries in Cent...
Iran Hostage Crisis The objective of the operation Eagle Claw (to rescue 66 American hostages at the embassy in Tehran, Iran) wasn't completed. A helicopter carrying Delta Force and other special operations team members crashed, killing eight and ending the operation. Following that, control of ...
So much so that a common Israeli quip describes the IDF as an army that owns a state. Suffice it to note the general staff’s May 1967 ultimatum to Prime Minister Eshkol to break the tightening pan-Arab noose around Israel, or the 2011–12 aborting of an attack on Iran’s nuclear ...
Pakistan is moving to the frontline to position itself as the fulcrum in the Afghan theatre deputing Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi for a diplomatic offensive with Afghanistan's neighbours. Who are these Afghan neighbours, and how ...
The Middle East is edging ever closer toward a full-blown regional war as Israelvowed to respondto Iran’s huge barrage ofballistic missilesfired at the country on Tuesday night, capping a day of dramatic military escalation in the region. ...