The U.S. insisted that Iraq’s Saddam Hussein had WMD. The U.S. invaded Iraq and killed Saddam Hussein. Some speculated that Hussein got himself eliminated because he traded Iraqi oil for Euro instead of the USD. The U.S. couldn’t tolerate that. The U.S. dismantled the Iraqi army a...
Iranian leader Ruhollah Khomeini declared that Iran would not cease fighting until Saddam's regime was toppled. Iran began a series of offensives, which proved successful enough to cause Iraq to resort to the use of chemical weapons (seepoison gas), a tactic reviled by the international commun...
Iraq’s leader, Saddam Hussein, ordered the invasion and occupation of Kuwait with the apparent aim of acquiring that nation’s large oil reserves, canceling a large debt Iraq owed Kuwait, and expanding Iraqi power in the region1. The Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein claimed as a reason for the ...
The main goal of the invasion in Iraq was to outs the radical leader Saddam Hussein and institutionalize democracy, law and order in the country. The U.S failed to plan properly for the aftermath of the regime change. This led to the outbreak of insurgents in Iraq and an attempt for the...
Kurdish allies of Saddam Hussein captured the last stronghold of their Kurdish rivals on Monday - a rout that gives the Iraqi leader his greatest influence in northern Iraq since the Persian Gulf War.
Saddam Hussein was a pivotal figure in Iraqi politics, serving as president from 1979 until his ousting in 2003. He was known for implementing a platform that merged aspects of social democracy with efforts to maintain cohesion among the country's diverse ethnic and religious groups....
Saddam Hussein was a pivotal figure in Iraqi politics, serving as president from 1979 until his ousting in 2003. He was known for implementing a platform that merged aspects of social democracy with efforts to maintain cohesion among the country's diverse ethnic and religious groups....
Iraq - Iran-Iraq War, Saddam Hussein, Invasion: Relations with Iran had grown increasingly strained after the shah was overthrown in 1979. Iraq recognized Iran’s new Shiʿi Islamic government, but the Iranian leaders would have nothing to do with the
“nationalists” secured control. In Iraq the Baʿathists took power briefly in 1963 and regained it in 1968, after which the party’s power became concentrated under Iraqi leaderSaddam Hussein. Differences between the Iraqi and Syrian wings of the Baʿath Party precluded unification of the...
On this day in 1998, President Bill Clinton ordered airstrikes against Iraq after Saddam Hussein's regime refused to cooperate with United Nations weapons inspectors.