Gulf War disaster in 1991 showed how conflict can trigger environmental damage that spreads far beyond the battlefield.
The US president might learn that starting wars is much easier than ending them, writes the BBC's international editor.
When oil infrastructure burns, the damage doesn't stop at the battlefield — here's what the science and history tell us.
Decades of armed conflict in the Persian Gulf have left a toxic legacy in the region’s shallow waters, where oil from wartime spills continues to leach from contaminated sediments and threaten dugongs ...
The first Persian Gulf War lasted six weeks. Kuwait was liberated from the murderous grasp of Saddam Hussein, and the Iraqi army admitted defeat, at a surrender ceremony presided over by the ...
February 1991, during the Gulf War, U.S. forces launch a massive armored assault against Iraqi Republican Guard units ...
Does a satellite image show fires currently burning in the Middle East? No, that's not true: This satellite image dates back to April 1991. It does not show anything currently burning in the Middle ...
India faced a turbulent convergence of crises: the Mandal Commission protests, LK Advani’s Rath Yatra, the Gulf War, and a ...