Word: iraq
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with its other neighbors, Syria might seek to undermine the existing agreements if it remains the only state on Israel's borders still at war with it. Peace with Syria would also calm the region, help secure Western access to Middle East oil at reasonable prices and further isolate Iraq and Iran, the bad actors supporting the world's worst terrorists...
...Iraq Recognizes Kuwait
...interview with TIME editors today, Aziz said he sees no reason why Iraq and the U.S. can't have normal relations: "We do not consider ourselves the enemies of the U.S. But this Administration says we are the enemy, while they are dealing with all the dictators of the world." While criticizing U.S. press coverage of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, Aziz mused on Iraq's view of the difference between former President George Bush and President Clinton: "Bush knew what Iraq was -- and he decided to demonize Iraq. But President Clinton does not know Iraq, and his advisers...
...Iraq said today it had dropped itsterritorial claim on Kuwait, which Baghdad has considered its 19th province since the days of the Ottoman Empire. (The British split the two countries in 1961, to Iraq's annoyance.) But the announcement didn't reassure Kuwaitis or attain Iraq's probable goal -- U.S. efforts to lift the crippling, three-year U.N. embargo. White House press secretary Dee Dee Myers called the news "positive" but warned that the U.S. would not help Iraq unless it backs up this announcement by also dismantling itsweapons program, releasing political prisoners and returning property seized from Kuwait.Post your...
...Hussein must have felt lonelier by the day last week as even somewhat friendly nations registered their disapproval of his aggressive behavior toward Kuwait. The United Nation's Security Council voted unanimously to condemn his actions. The Russian Foreign Minister, Andrei Kozyrev, who had tried to ease pressure on Iraq, said he did not want to "dramatize" the situation and affirmed that Washington and Moscow were in agreement on the need for full Iraqi compliance with U.N. resolutions. Finally, U.S. jets flew dry runs over Iraq as a forceful reminder of their heavy presence in the region...