OSLO, NORWAY - A scientist considered the father of Iraq's nuclear program said Thursday that his nation would have developed atomic weapons in the early 1990s had Saddam Hussein not ordered the ...

KUWAIT CITY (AP) – Sheik Saud Al Nasser Al Sabah, who served as Kuwait’s ambassador to the U.S. during Iraq’s 1990 invasion of the oil-rich country and the American-led war to oust Saddam Hussein’s ...

KUWAIT (Reuters) - OPEC member Kuwait plans to launch a project to clean up what it calls "oil lakes", referring to ground contamination resulting from crude spills during the Iraqi invasion of the ...

Remember The First Gulf War? Persian Gulf War? Desert Storm and/or Desert Shield? They’re all the same war. Whatever we call it now, it was the war that expelled Iraqi troops from Kuwait, checked a ...

After nearly a decade of combat, Iraq was amidst economic turmoil and its military forces had been badly mauled. Despite this fact, only two weeks after dissolving the conflict with Iran’s leadership, ...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously Tuesday to end Iraq’s requirement to compensate victims of its 1990 invasion of Kuwait, with Baghdad having paid out more than $50 ...

Thirty years have passed since Iraqi tyrant Saddam Hussein invaded neighbouring Kuwait, but despite hints of a diplomatic rapprochement, people in both countries say the wounds have yet to heal. An ...

Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmed Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Kuwait's ruling emir, died on Saturday after a three-year, low-key reign focused on trying to resolve the tiny, oil-rich nation's internal political disputes.

He was defense minister when Iraq invaded his tiny but oil-rich country, and he became ruler in his 80s. By Alan Cowell Sheikh Nawaf al-Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah, the emir of Kuwait who took power as ...