Foreign Policy reports that the U.S. didn't always play the role of the good guy when it came to the use of chemical weapons. Near the end of Iraq's war with Iran 25 years ago, the U.S., using ...

he had a secret meeting with the Iraqi dictator and arranged enormous military assistance for his war with Iran. The CIA had already warned that Iraq was using chemical weapons almost daily.

Iran marks Sacred Defense Week these days, which commemorates the memory of the martyrs and veterans who sacrificed their ...

Iran's prolonged war with Iraq has done much to condition the Iranian worldview and behavior. Iraq's use of chemical weapons against Iran—with impunity, if not tacit acceptance of Western powers ...

Iraq is known to have unleashed chemical weapons in the 1980s, both during the Iran-Iraq war and against rebellious Kurds in northern Iraq. But there is no evidence that the Iraqi state has ever ...

Soon after the war ended in 1988, Iraq appears to have used chemical weapons in attacks on Kurdish civilians. It was alleged that Libya used chemical weapons -- obtained from Iran -- in attacks on ...

TEHRAN - On September 22, 1980, months after the victory of the Islamic Revolution in Iran, the army of the Iraqi Ba’athist ...

A few weeks before the 2003 war, I visited the village of Halabja in Northern Iraq, and heard locals describe the day in 1988 when Saddam's army had dropped chemical weapons on them. The truth ...

Fears that Saddam Hussein is preparing to unleash his armoury of chemical weapons were expressed by the man set to lead British troops in any war with Iraq. Speaking from the As Sayliyah base in ...

TEHRAN-The Persian translation of the book “The Unfinished History of the Iran-Iraq War: Faith, Firepower, and Iran's ...

Iran’s new president has slammed the West, saying that Israel is “committing massacres” in the war in Gaza and is using ...

In fact, Khomeini’s regime ended up buying weapons costing $500 million from the Israeli government during the 1980s ...