Karl Vick
A paramilitary of the Hashed al-shaabi (Popular Mobilisation) forces stands guard during the funeral of a comrade who died in U.S. airstrikes targeting Iran-backed groups in Iraq the day before, at the group's headquarters in Baghdad on Jan. 25, 2024.AHMAD AL-RUBAYE/AFP via Getty Images...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States will do what it sees as necessary to defend its interests after a rocket attack last week against Iraq's Ain al-Sada airbase, which hosts American, coalition and Iraqi forces, U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said on Sunda...
Later that year,university students overran the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, seeking the shah's extradition and sparking the 444-day hostage crisis that saw diplomatic relations between Iran and the U.S. severed.The Iran-Iraq war of the 1980ssaw the U.S. back Saddam Hussein.The “Ta...
What a Girl Wants: Directed by Dennie Gordon. With Kelly Preston, Soleil McGhee, Colin Firth, Eileen Atkins. An American teenager learns that her father is a wealthy British politician running for office. Although she is eager to find him, she realizes i
that Iraq’s Saddam Hussein was planning to invade Iran. Ronald Reagan sent three unanswered letters to the Iranian government. George H.W. Bush’s inauguration speech included a message —“goodwill begets goodwill” — for Iran. Bill Clinton hoped to meet Iran’s reformist president Mohammad...
Ilan Mengitsu said, "If the government had not been indifferent to the humanitarian issue of Avera - it would have been possible to bring him back a long time ago." Before October 7, the known Hamas hostages were Hisham al-Sayed (an Israeli-Bedouin) and Avera Mengitsu. The ...
Before all the notoriety, Lori married businessman Charles Vallow. Friends say it appeared to be a happy marriage. Together, the couple was raising Tylee Ryan, Lori's daughter from a previous marriage. 2014: JJ joins the family Lori and JJ VallowTylee Ryan/Instagram ...
severed.The Iran-Iraq war of the 1980ssaw the U.S. back Saddam Hussein.The “Tanker War”during that conflict saw the U.S. launch a one-day assault that crippled Iran at sea, whilethe U.S. later shot down an Iranian commercial airlinerthat the Ame...
Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis are all part of an Iranian-led alliance spanning Yemen, Syria, Gaza and Iraq that has attacked Israel and its allies since the war began. They say they won’t stop striking Israel and its allies until a ceasefire is reached in Gaza. ...