Iraqi aircraft strike USS Stark in the Gulf

The mission examined patients at Baghdad’s Al Rasheed Military Hospital and inspected fragments returned from the Basra war zone, investigating Iraqi complaints alongside Iranian evidence.

After a dust storm delayed travel, UN specialists surveyed five sites east of Basra and visited Basra Military Hospital, extending their inquiry to Iraq’s war-zone evidence.

The Secretary-General transmitted a four-specialist report on chemical-weapons allegations in the Iran-Iraq conflict. Its findings added independent international scrutiny to years of Iranian...

A Council statement cited repeated Iraqi chemical use against Iranian forces and chemical injuries to civilians in Iran. It also noted Iraqi military injuries from chemical agents.

Iran forwarded photographs said to show the effects of chemical weapons on residents, including children, in Alut village near Baneh. The submission formed part of Tehran’s campaign for...

TASS reported that a Soviet tanker had struck a mine off Kuwait. The incident exposed Soviet-linked commercial shipping to the hazards of the Gulf war.

Iraq protested that the UN mission and Council noted Iraqi chemical injuries without concluding that Iran caused them. Kittani demanded a stronger attribution than the investigators had made.

Velayati thanked the UN specialists but criticized the Council’s response, urging political action, chemical export restraints and continued scrutiny of Iraq’s access to chemical agents.

The 12-member European Community expressed concern that the Geneva Protocol had repeatedly been violated, urged an immediate end to chemical-weapons use, and called for restraint in the Gulf and an...

After mines damaged ships in the Gulf, the United States sought minesweepers and European NATO governments reconsidered their earlier refusal. Responsibility for the mines was disputed; the incident...