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 ...

This is a story of the unintended consequences of a Pyrrhic victory celebrated 35 years ago as a history-making triumph. As the U.S. fights its latest war in the Persian Gulf — this time against Iran, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. U.S. soldiers examine an Iraqi tank destroyed in February 1991. (Eric Bouvet, Gamma-Rapho/Getty Images) Mark T. Gerges commanded ...

Oil prices rose by about 80% in the first two to three months of the Gulf War in 1990, compared with almost 100% in today's episode. Out of all the oil-supply shocks of the past 50 years, the current ...