D uring the first Gulf war in 1991, Iraqi troops occupying Kuwait deliberately opened the taps of oil tankers, terminals and ...

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, ...

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 ...

Kuwait exported zero crude oil in April 2026 for the first time since the 1991 Gulf War, according to tanker tracking data.

A new medical study found that the wide-ranging symptoms of Gulf War illness appear to be caused by a failure of cells to produce adequate energy, bringing experts a step closer to finding the root ...