US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld helped Saddam Hussein ... war with Iraq. Terrified that the Iranian Islamic revolution would spread through the Gulf and into Saudi Arabia - threatening US oil ...

The Gulf War ... so Hussein threatened Kuwait, its oil-rich, militarily weak neighbor, reigniting a decades-old border dispute over Kuwait itself. In July 1990, Saddam claimed that Kuwait and ...

Shell reported an oil spill on Tuesday at Ogale, near Port Harcourt, after a saver pit overflowed during flushing operations ...

His opposition intensified following the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran, which heightened Saddam’s fears of a Shiite-led uprising in Iraq. In 1980, as the government moved against Shiite ...

And the Iraqi variant of the Scud, the Al-Hussein ... these attacks by Saddam that brought the Scud missile system into the American public’s attention. During the Gulf War, Iraq fired around ...

Volunteers flooded the beaches to help with cleanup eventually prompting the federal government to step to help clean up ...

His opposition intensified following the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran, which heightened Saddam’s fears of a Shiite-led uprising in Iraq.

Saddam Hussein called on his people today to join a holy war to defend their country from the "disgraceful crimes" of the US military assault on Iraq. In a broadcast on Iraqi state television ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: As with any counterfactual, it’s difficult to grapple with the full implications of the death of Saddam Hussein during the 1991 Gulf War. A successful..

This was in response to the U.S.’s supplying of arms to Israel in the Yom Kippur War that it was fighting against a coalition of Arab states led by Egypt and Syria. As global supplies of oil ...