AS Iraqi soldiers dug a huge ditch, one of them broke down in tears and told Clive Earthy that it was for the British Airways crew member being held as a “human shield”. But the young man then ...

BBC News Online looks back at the 1991 Gulf War and its immediate aftermath. Home. ... British and allied planes launched a massive campaign of bombing and missile strikes on targets across Iraq at ...

Though short in duration, the Gulf War produced lasting consequences for both the military troops involved and the world at large. Areas such as the “Highway of Death” symbolized the brutal ...

The Gulf War lasted just seven months, ... the Kuwaiti military is believed to have numbered 16,000 men, ... with US and British warplanes bombing Iraqi armour and troop formations.

Later Friday, the British military’s United Kingdom Maritime Operations, which oversees Mideast waterways, acknowledged a vessel had been struck by a missile and was on fire in the Gulf of Aden.

A new documentary from Sky explores the shocking ordeal that the passengers and crew of British Airways Flight 149 endured after they inadvertently became involved in the Gulf War.. Flight 149 ...

Clive Earthy, pictured, claims he saw 'military' men get on and off BA Flight 149 when it landed in the war zone Credit: Slky UK Limited ©. This was just one of several occasions when Clive, 82 ...