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 ...

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 ...

TNSR Production Editor Kerry Anderson talks with historian Daniel Chardell about his article The Origins of the Iraqi Invasion of Kuwait Reconsidered, published in Volume 6, Issue 3 of TNSR. Daniel ...

Kuwaiti oil wells were set ablaze by retreating Iraqi troops in March 1991 — MICHEL GANGNE A UN commission set up to obtain reparations from Iraq over the country's 1990 invasion of Kuwait submitted ...

Workers stayed home and Ramadan prayers were cancelled in Kuwait on Monday as the tiny Gulf emirate was left on edge following Iranian attacks that marked its biggest upheaval in decades. Home to a ...

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 ...

(CNN) — Here’s a look at the 1990-1991 Persian Gulf War. In response to Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait in August 1990, the United States and other countries launched military operations known as Operation ...

WASHINGTON - Even without the use of Saudi Arabia's vast desert expanses to launch a ground invasion of Iraq, the U.S. military would have plenty of room to operate from tiny Kuwait and elsewhere, ...