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Read CNN’s Fast Facts about the 1990-1991 Persian Gulf War, an international conflict codenamed Operation Desert Shield and Operation Desert Storm.

Read Fast Facts from CNN about Massoud Barzani, the president of the Kurdish Regional Government in Iraq.

More than 200 people were killed and thousands were injured after a massive explosion in the Lebanese capital of Beirut on August 4, 2020.

A car bomb exploded near the home of Afghanistan’s acting defense minister in Kabul on Tuesday evening, just hours after the Afghan army urged residents in another city to evacuate … Read More

A British marine tracking agency has reported a “potential hijacking” incident off the coast of the United Arab Emirates, without providing any further information on the vessels involved.

One year ago, at 6.08pm on an otherwise unremarkable Tuesday, they detonated in a mushroom cloud of death and destruction — one of the largest non-nuclear blasts in history.

There are still many unanswered questions about what led to the tragedy in Beirut a year ago, and there has been no sense of closure in the 12 months since … Read More

Read CNN’s Fast Facts on Pervez Musharraf, former president of Pakistan.

Ebrahim Raisi was set to be inaugurated as Iran’s next president on Thursday, signaling the start of a new harder-line era that could herald major shifts in the Islamic Republic’s … Read More

Israel has urged over 60s to get their booster shots immediately and the government has tightened up coronavirus restrictions amid a fresh wave of infections.