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Here's a look at weapons inspections in Iraq from 1991 to 2007. Facts: At the end of the 1990-1991 Persian Gulf War, the United Nations passed Security Council Resolution 687 setting the terms for ...
The ultimately incorrect assertions about Iraq’s nuclear, biological and chemical weapons programs, repeatedly cited to build support for the war in America and abroad, did lasting damage to the ...
Does Iraq have weapons of mass destruction ... Experts say that at the time of the 1991 Gulf War, Iraq was just months away from having refined enough highly enriched uranium to build a single ...
Hundreds of chemical weapons found in Iraq were produced before the 1991 Gulf War and probably are so old they couldn't be used as designed, intelligence officials said Thursday.
A British inquiry into the death of a Iraq weapons expert is expected to further entangle London and Washington in allegations that Saddam Hussein’s weapons programs were exaggerated.
In the midst of our COVID mourning, we might forget the U.S. began a war in Iraq 18 years ago this week. The war has had various inspiring names: Operation Iraqi Freedom from 2003 to 2010 ...
NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with journalist Steve Coll about the parallels between Iraq and Iran when it comes to discussions of a potential war due to an adversarial country's weapons program.
The U.S. lost 4,500 troops and spent an estimated $2 trillion on the Iraq War and the ensuing campaign in both Iraq and Syria against the extremist Islamic State group, which took hold in both ...
It is seeking nuclear weapons. SHAPIRO: Those claims turned out to be inaccurate. No such stockpiles were found after the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Steve Coll covered ...