It was late February 1991, and the Gulf War's ground phase had just commenced. In the arid expanse of the Iraqi desert, the nine M1A1 Abrams tanks and thirteen M3 Bradley fighting vehicles of Eagle ...

How Mossad's Saddam Plot Failed, And Left Elite Israeli Soldiers In Coffins In the aftermath of the 1991 Gulf War, Israel viewed Iraq's Saddam Hussein as a dangerous and unpredictable threat.

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But nonproliferation experts have contended for years that while Saddam may have had nuclear weapons ambitions, the French-built research reactor would not have been the route to go. Iraq would ...

As President Donald Trump floats "regime change" in Tehran, previous U.S. attempts to remake the Middle East by force in recent decades can offer stark warnings about the possibility of a deepening in ...

(THE CONVERSATION) After 12 days of trading deadly airstrikes, Israel and Iran confirmed on June 24, 2025, that a ceasefire is in effect, one day after President Donald Trump proclaimed the countries ...

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi was set to declare victory over Islamic State in Mosul on Monday as only a few dozen militants put up resistance in the city that was the capital of their ...

In short: Everyone went all the way, bursting through psychological and military barriers we never imagined would be breached ...

"Israel is being assisted this way or that way by some Iranians," ex-Israeli National Security chief Giora Eiland told Newsweek.

We need to unite across the spectrum to push back. Veterans like us need to continue to speak out, so that we can motivate ...