They were built to drop nukes in Europe—not fly over desert warzones. But in 1991, six aging Blackburn Buccaneers were yanked ...

With renewed Israeli escalation looming, Gulf states face a critical choice: act to prevent Iran's collapse or risk regional ...

Based on past conflicts that have rattled oil prices, oil is likely trading in the upper range of where it should be as the Israel-Iran crisis simmers, say analysts at Citigroup.

Desert Storm is an interesting chapter of U.S. military history that doesn't get a lot of attention.On the Price of Freedom, ...

After the Gulf War started, he concluded Iraq’s peace with Iran and raised his occupying force levels to 300,000. Iraq conscripted three fourths of men between ages 15 and 49.

The Gulf War Air Power Survey reported that precision sorties exhibited more than an order of magnitude improvement in the target/sortie ratio compared with dumb bombs. “Tank plinking” and ...

Read CNN’s Fast Facts about the 1990-1991 Persian Gulf War, an international conflict codenamed Operation Desert Shield and Operation Desert Storm.

The Gulf War is remembered as a walkover by many Americans — a late 20th-century blitzkrieg. In reality, the U.S. military had a legion of troubles in the 1990-91 conflict, many of which caused ...

The Gulf War occurred in two phases, Operation Desert Shield, from August 1990 to January 1991where troops were deployed to the Persian Gulf, and Desert Storm from January 1991 to February 1991, a ...

Gulf War Illness affects about 30% of the 700,000 people who served in the 1991 Persian Gulf War. Symptoms include fatigue, headaches, gastrointestinal problems, cognitive impairment and pain.

Its 24/7 live coverage of the Gulf War was what set CNN apart and attracted viewers from around the world. Only a few months into his role as CNN's military affairs correspondent, Wolf Blitzer ...

Florida has executed Gulf War veteran Jeffrey Hutchinson for the shooting deaths of his girlfriend and her three children despite a letter from 129 veterans arguing that Hutchinson's mind was a ...