A senior Israeli official says the government is working with allies in a renewed push to win the freedom of an Israeli-Russian researcher who is believed to have been kidnapped in Iraq nearly two ...
It did, of course. A main reason was the Iran-Iraq War. The September 1980 invasion by Saddam Hussein’s Iraq created a crisis that rallied Iranians around the flag. The military history of the ...
The extraordinary details have come to light because thousands of State Department documents dealing with the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war have just been declassified and released under the Freedom of ...
However, with the collapse of the Islamic Republic’s hegemonic project, the Middle East is poised for significant changes. The immediate fallout will be most visible in Lebanon, Syria and Iraq, where ...