Huddled inside the Al Rasheed Hotel in Baghdad with his colleagues, CNN’s Bernard Shaw uttered a sentence that crackled over ...
As coalition forces increase pressure on Baghdad, ground troops will have an increasingly difficult and dangerous drive toward Iraq's capital city. Two CNN military analysts weighed in Saturday on the ...
Just days before, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein had presided over a military parade in Baghdad, marking the 10th anniversary of the Gulf War. Saluting his troops and the crowd that had gathered ...
Divided into two, two-hour programs, this series is a comprehensive overview of the Gulf War ... support for going to war, and ends with the devastating air war against Baghdad.
January 17: US navy warships in the Gulf fired more than 30 Tomahawk cruise missiles at a factory near Baghdad that the United States suspected of being linked to a secret nuclear arms program.
Familiar images of antiaircraft fire lighting up Baghdad's nighttime sky have yet ... it and those who fought its battles in "The Gulf War," airing Tuesday and Wednesday, January 9 and 10, on ...
"Baghdad is a huge camp ... of the bridges over the Tigris was bombed during the 1991 air campaign of the Gulf War, for example, Saddam vowed that the bridge would be operational within one ...
One of the stories that shook the world in 1991 was the start of Operation Desert Storm. A coalition led by the United States ...
Iraqi President Saddam Hussein appeared on television early Thursday morning, characterizing the U.S.-led military campaign as "criminal acts" and saying his nation would be victorious. "These days ...
Baghdad said on Saturday it had not officially received the United States’ decision to rescind a waiver that had allowed Iraq ...
(Even Disney’s 1992 animated Aladdin was initially to take place in Baghdad, but for the First Gulf War, which broke out in 1991.) “We like to have local elements that represent the culture or ...
Washington has declined to renew a sanctions waiver that allowed Iraq to buy electricity from neighbouring Iran, a ...