Operation Desert Storm began with an overwhelming and unprecedented air assault, marking the start of the Gulf War and the ...

In 1991, Iraq had the fifth largest army in the world. ... After the Gulf War started, he concluded Iraq’s peace with Iran and raised his occupying force levels to 300,000.

Thirty-two years ago this week, the Gulf War commenced. On Jan. 17, 1991, after a deadline to withdraw from Kuwait was ignored by Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, former U.S. President George H.W ...

"The Iranian strike on the American base in Qatar demonstrated how beholden the Gulf Arabs are to the United States." ...

The Senate repealed the 1991 authorization for use of military force (AUMF), which was used in the Gulf War to defend Kuwait against Iraq's invasion, and the 2002 AUMF, which authorized military ...

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The Senate has advanced a bill that would repeal decades-old authorizations for use of military force for the Iraq and Persian Gulf wars, in an overwhelming show of bipartisan support for ...

Although the coalition hit Iraq hard and fast, with some 100,000 sorties over the course of more than 40 days and 40 nights. Iraq didn't stand idly by and be destroyed, however.

The Gulf War lasted just seven months, ... By contrast, with around a million soldiers, the Iraq Army was the world’s fourth-largest military force ...

U.S. military aviators won several impressive air-to-air engagements during the Gulf War, but perhaps the most stunning victory happened on Feb. 14, 1991, when two airmen in an F-15 successfully ...

March 8 (UPI) --The Senate will soon hold a vote to officially end the authorized use of military force in Iraq and Kuwait, which could close the books on the Iraq and Gulf War.The Senate Foreign ...

MOSCOW, Russia (CNN) -- The Gulf War of 1991 had ramifications far beyond the Middle East. One of the most significant of these involved the role of the Soviet Union, which was in decline as a ...