Today in History for July 22: In 1582, England's first newspaper, the "English Mercurie," began publication. (The newspaper was later claimed to be a literary hoax written by the second Earl of ...

This decision, made quietly, cautiously, and with the best of intentions, reshaped the fate of a nation and the entire region ...

The brutal fight against Saddam Hussein’s Iraq four decades ago shaped Tehran’s approach to the recent war and guides its ...

On July 4, a triumphant Trump told the nation he crippled that it now stands tall, respected and admired across the world.

During Gulf War II, coalition forces made a stunning discovery in the Iraqi desert: dozens of fighter jets buried beneath ...

Saddam Hussein's two sons were notorious for their brutality and became as loathed and feared as their father. ... The elder, Uday, was one of the regime's most hated figures, with a reputation for ...

Operation Desert Storm was 10 seconds away. Tom O’Neal was about to fire the first shot in the war that would end Saddam Hussein’s occupation of Kuwait.

Saddam Hussein's rule of Iraq was characterised by repression and brutality.

Watching American soldiers march down the street in front of his apartment, Abdul-Ahad quickly dropped what he was doing —“ugly work for ugly people who had the money to afford their ugly houses”—and ...

Nonproliferation experts believe Iraq’s nuclear program went underground after Israel destroyed its reactor just outside Baghdad.

In the case of Iraq, military action on its nascent nuclear program merely pushed it underground – to Saddam, the Israeli strikes made acquiring the ultimate weapon more rather than less ...