Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait is not distant history, and its protagonists have not yet disappeared. Yet, despite that, it does not occupy the space it should in conversations around the crisis with Iran.

Workers stayed home and Ramadan prayers were cancelled in Kuwait on Monday as the tiny Gulf emirate was left on edge following Iranian attacks that marked its biggest upheaval in decades. Home to a ...

Iraq’s invasion of its neighbor Kuwait on Aug. 2, 1990, caused an international coalition to respond with Operation Desert Shield, eventually culminating in the Coalition forces taking control of the ...