The U.S. triumph ended with a total rout of Iraq’s Army in Kuwait, and Washington dreamed of a new world order and a remade Mideast
For all his losses, the Iraqi despot remained standing and turned his rage on Iraq’s own Kurdish and Shiite peoples
The old guard rolled out the tanks in Moscow, but after three days the putsch crumbled and even the Army hailed the victory of the people
As islanders fled after their leader was toppled, the U.S. offered haven for targets of repression, but not victims of poverty
Old hatreds boiled up as central rule collapsed, and funerals become a leitmotif of Croats’ daily life
The end of the cold war brought a peace deal, but old memories died hard as a Khmer Rouge leader returned to meet a vengeful mob
