How Mossad's Saddam Plot Failed, And Left Elite Israeli Soldiers In Coffins In the aftermath of the 1991 Gulf War, Israel viewed Iraq's Saddam Hussein as a dangerous and unpredictable threat.

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It was late February 1991, and the Gulf War's ground phase had just commenced. In the arid expanse of the Iraqi desert, the nine M1A1 Abrams tanks and thirteen M3 Bradley fighting vehicles of Eagle ...

In the case of Iraq, military action on its nascent nuclear program merely pushed it underground – to Saddam, the Israeli strikes made acquiring the ultimate weapon more rather than less ...

Gazans are walking for miles to four Mad Max-like facilities at the borders of the strip in the South and at the Netzarim corridor, which splits the north and south in half and has been occupied if ...

As President Donald Trump floats "regime change" in Tehran, previous U.S. attempts to remake the Middle East by force in recent decades can offer stark warnings about the possibility of a deepening in ...

(THE CONVERSATION) After 12 days of trading deadly airstrikes, Israel and Iran confirmed on June 24, 2025, that a ceasefire is in effect, one day after President Donald Trump proclaimed the countries ...

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi was set to declare victory over Islamic State in Mosul on Monday as only a few dozen militants put up resistance in the city that was the capital of their ...

"Israel is being assisted this way or that way by some Iranians," ex-Israeli National Security chief Giora Eiland told Newsweek.

An interview with Trita Parsi on the “self-fulfilling prophecy” set in motion by Israeli and U.S. attacks and the diplomatic bind Iran now faces.