PERSIAN GULF WAR. Clevelanders felt shock and anger on 2 Aug. 1990, upon hearing news reports that Iraqi armies had invaded Kuwait. The aggression by the large, well-equipped army of Iraq against a ...

It is time to try to reckon honestly with the successes and failures of the Iraq War, clarify impressions of how and why the war began, and decide what lessons for our future policy we can draw ...

Crocker, Mansoor and Alshamary recently shared their thoughts with NPR on lessons learned from one of America's longest conflicts — the war in Iraq. Here are their observations: U.S. optimism ...

NPR's Pien Huang speaks with Noreen Malone, host of the Slow Burn series The Road to the Iraq War, about the 20th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq. It's also been almost 20 years since then ...

Baghdad — Monday marks 20 years since the start of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq. Twenty years since ... of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. But the war claimed the lives of about 4,500 U.S ...

the late Secretary of State Colin Powell assured the world in a speech to the United Nations just before the invasion that the war was completely justified by the danger Iraq posed to the world.

Baghdad — Seeing your first dead body can be deeply upsetting. Seeing somebody actually die in front of you leaves a scar on the soul. It was a blisteringly hot August afternoon in 2003 when a ...

On the 20th anniversary of the beginning of the Iraq War, many are reflecting on all that has happened in the last two decades. I served in Iraq, and all over the Middle East and Horn of Africa as ...

But the verbal slip was telling and I thought of it when news broke last week that the U.S. Senate would be taking up a bill ending the Iraq War authorizations passed in 2002, coinciding with the ...

Bush was laying the groundwork for war in Iraq. Like many of his generation, Hoh was steeled in his patriotism by the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, and he was eager to serve. It was widely ...

In the two decades since he ordered the invasion of Iraq, Mr. Bush has been indelibly associated with the war that will define his place in history even as he has left the judgments to others.

Somewhere in Iraq, February 1991: Iraqi prisoners of war are checked after their surrender to American troops from Iron Troop, 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment. Looking for Stars and Stripes’ Gulf ...