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 has recently requested an estimated $325 million in sustainment support for its fleet of M1A2 Abrams tanks, which have formed the backbone of its ground forces for over three decades. The ...

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 ...

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. On ...

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 ...

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 ...

This story originally published on Aug. 3, 1990. It is being republished as part of the commemoration of USA TODAY's 40th anniversary on Sept. 15, 2022. The "butcher of Baghdad,'' by bullying his way ...