Some years after the 1991 rout of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein’s forces from Kuwait — Gen. Colin Powell articulated the principles that guided the Bush administration’s strategy.

Colin Powell spent the final years of his life haunted by his February 2003 presentation to the United Nations Security Council, claiming the threat posed by Saddam Hussein’s regime in Iraq justified ...

Colin Powell said he got a flat tire while driving to Walter Reed Military Hospital on Wednesday, and a veteran who was driving by stopped to help the former secretary of state. Powell said he ...

Operation Epic Fury brings to mind previous US campaigns in the Gulf — but this time, any pretence at respect for life and ...

Colin Powell, former US national security adviser, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and secretary of state, who died this week at the age of 84, was a quintessential American, the son of ...

When Gen. Colin Powell spoke at Duke last Friday, there was something missing from his remarks. With humor that often roused the crowd to laughter, Powell reflected on his youth in New York, his days ...

Richard N. Haass, the president of the Council on Foreign Relations who served as Colin Powell’s director of policy planning at the State Department, says that the outgoing secretary of state “plays ...

Christina Aguilera and Seal may have headlined last night’s Africa Rising THISDAY Gala in London, but it was former US Secretary of State Colin Powell who stole the show with his funky Hip Hop dance.

In February 2026, online users shared a rumor claiming U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth removed former Secretary of State Colin Powell's name from a list of noteworthy military figures hosted on ...

Colin Powell, the great American military leader, was also a life-long fixer. According to an obituary in the New York Times: Until his final days, Colin L. Powell remained preoccupied with fixing ...

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