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 ...

Workers stayed home and Ramadan prayers were cancelled in Kuwait on Monday as the tiny Gulf emirate was left on edge ...

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 ...

Today marks the 25 th anniversary of the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. It was a momentous event that unleashed a cascade of tragedy that included those who died in Kuwait’s occupation by the Saddam ...

Kuwait Liberation Day is a day of intense national pride as it is considered the date on 26 February 1991 when Iraqi troops had to go after a seven-month occupation started in August 1990. Unprovable ...

Iraq is believed to have settled its dispute with Kuwait over compensation for the theft and destruction of the Kuwait Airways fleet during the first Gulf War. The legal case – which was brought in ...

Iraq and its national carrier Iraq Airways will pay $300million to Kuwait Airways in compensation for Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait almost two decades ago, an Iraqi government spokesman said ...

Kuwait says co-ordinates and map submitted by Baghdad infringe on its sovereignty ...

Iraq’s invasion of its neighbor Kuwait on Aug. 2, 1990, caused an international coalition to respond with Operation Desert Shield, eventually culminating in the Coalition forces taking control of the ...

August 1st 1990 was blisteringly hot. In Liverpool the entire stock at a chocolate factory melted, and at a castle in Essex a waxwork knight turned into a puddle. It was so warm that the tarmac at ...