(August 9, 1980) Six weeks later, Hussein and the Ba’athists used the national wealth to plunge the Iraqi people into a bloody war against Iran. The historical background of the Iran-Iraq War is ...

The Iran-Iraq War became one of the bloodiest conflicts of the modern era, killing nearly two million and leaving both nations devastated. Sparked by Saddam Hussein’s invasion in 1980 ...

How the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s affected the lives of those caught up in it, and how it has cast its shadow over the region to this day ...

Iran said the remains of as many as 200 people found near Basra were Iranian soldiers killed during the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war and demanded their immediate repatriation, a newspaper reported on ...

The document summarized the various moves made by Washington in 1987 during the Iran-Iraq war. In May 1987, a U.S. Navy ship was attacked by Iraq in the Persian Gulf. The document explained that ...

Episode #66, ‘A River Runs Through It’: Phil and Cooper break down the Iran-Iraq War of the 1980s. Music: O-Hum - “Darvish” (Spotify | iTunes) In conjunction with Al-Monitor’s ...