Kuwait paid tribute to former US president George H.W. Bush on Saturday, saying his support during the first Gulf War "will not be ... Lights at the landmark Kuwait Towers were set to be shut ...

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New Sky documentary Flight 149: Hostage of War looks at a chapter of the Gulf War shrouded in secrecy for decades. Sky ...

it clearly stands out not only because of its height but as a symbol of rebirth and independence following the devastating nine-month war that Kuwait and its people endured. The Liberation Tower ...

In the early hours of Saturday, a fireball lit up the Iranian skyline as an Israeli drone strike hit Phase 14 of the South ...

2 August: Iraqi troops invade Kuwait, taking the emirate in one day. The BBC's John Simpson says the Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein is "by far the strongest leader in the region". In his report he ...

Persian Gulf War? Desert Storm and/or Desert Shield? They’re all the same war. Whatever we call it now, it was the war which expelled Iraqi troops from Kuwait, checked a decade of Saddam Hussein ...

Saddam’s inflammatory rhetoric was closely followed by the massing of Iraqi troops along its shared border with Kuwait. The ensuing First Gulf War would serve as the first major international ...

Flight 149: Hostage of War, which has been released by Sky Documentaries, tells the story of how the 367 people on the plane ...

Kuwait paid tribute to former US president George H.W. Bush on Saturday, saying his support during the first Gulf War “will not be forgotten ... Lights at the landmark Kuwait Towers were set to be ...

However, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates refused to cancel the debt, leading Saddam to begin threatening attacks, which eventually turned into a full-scale war. During the Gulf War ...