Iraqi invasion of Kuwait began on 2 August 1990 and marked the beginning of the Gulf War. After defeating the State of Kuwait on 4 August 1990, Iraq went...
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Gulf War. During the invasion, the Iraqi Revolutionary Command Council stated that it had sent troops into the State of Kuwait to assist an internal...
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to apologize over its support of the 1990 Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. However, on 12 December 2004, Abbas, now the leader of the PLO, apologized for the Palestinian...
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The Kuwait Governorate (Arabic: محافظة الكويت) was the 19th governorate of Iraq established in the aftermath of the invasion of Kuwait by Iraq in 1990...
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Ba'athist Iraq, officially the Iraqi Republic (1968–1992) and later the Republic of Iraq (1992–2003), was the Iraqi state between 1968 and 2003 under...
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The 1990 airlift of Indians from Kuwait was carried out from August 13, 1990 to October 20, 1990 after the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. Air India helped evacuate...
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Gulf War (redirect from 1990 invasion of Iraq)
intents behind the Iraqi invasion, most notably including Iraq's inability to repay a US$14 billion debt the country had borrowed from Kuwait to finance its...
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British Airways Flight 149 (redirect from Hijacking of British Airways Flight 149)
to landing at Kuwait International, the neighbouring nation of Iraq had launched a full-scale invasion of Kuwait during the early hours of that morning...
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for the invasion, 100,000 U.S. troops assembled in Kuwait by 18 February. The coalition forces also received support from the Peshmerga in Iraqi Kurdistan...
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The timeline of the Gulf War details the dates of the major events of the 1990–1991 war. It began with the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait on 2 August 1990 and...
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four days after the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) placed a comprehensive embargo on Iraq. The sanctions stayed...
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Nayirah claimed that after the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait she had witnessed Iraqi soldiers take babies out of incubators in a Kuwaiti hospital, take the incubators...
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1990 oil price shock (redirect from 1990 spike in the price of oil)
shock occurred in response to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait on August 2, 1990, Saddam Hussein's second invasion of a fellow OPEC member. Lasting only...
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Nayirah testimony (redirect from 1990 Kuwait incubator story)
15-year-old Kuwaiti girl who was publicly identified only as Nayirah at the time. In her testimony, which took place two months after the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait...
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Fahad Al-Ahmed Al-Jaber Al-Sabah (category Sport in Kuwait)
Federation and Kuwait Olympic Committee. Fahad was killed by the Iraqi military on the first day of the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. Fahad was the son of Ahmad Al-Jaber...
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forces during the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait on 2 August 1990. On 2 August 1990, shortly after 00:00 local time, Iraq invaded Kuwait. The attack on Dasman...
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parts of the Middle East, with the Iraqi poet Ahmed Matar leaving Iraq in the 1970s to take refuge in the more liberal environment of Kuwait. Kuwaiti society...
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movement submitted a petition to the Iraqi government demanding that it support the unification of Kuwait and Iraq. Fearing that the movement would turn...
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Gulf War (disambiguation) (category History of the Persian Gulf)
armed conflict between Iraq and a multinational military coalition led by the United States, triggered by the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in August 1990. Persian...
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treatment facilities in the Middle East. The invasion gave Iraq access to these riches. The Iraqi invasion of Kuwait may be served to be an attack on the West...
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border town of Safwan in Iraq and then on to the Iraqi city of Basra. The road was used by Iraqi armored divisions for the 1990 invasion of Kuwait. It was...
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Iraq Iran–Iraq War (1980–1988) 1983–1986 Kurdish rebellions in Iraq Anfal campaign (1986–1989) Iraqi invasion of Kuwait (1990) Sanctions against Iraq...
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Battle of the Bridges (Arabic: معركة الجسور) was a battle that took place on 2 August 1990 in Kuwait, following the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. The bridges...
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Kh-25 (category Cold War air-to-surface missiles of the Soviet Union)
carried out from up to 4.5 nm (8 km). During the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, on August 2, 1990 an Iraqi Air Force Sukhoi Su-22 from the No.109 Squadron (based...
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following Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in 1990 Anglo-Iraqi War, the British invasion of Iraq during World War II Mesopotamian campaign, the Allied invasion of Ottoman...
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rendered obsolete by the 2003 invasion of Iraq. French aircraft patrols also participated until France withdrew in 1996. The Iraqi government claimed 1,400...
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The Iraqi Republican Guard (Arabic: حرس العراق الجمهوري, romanized: Ḥaras al-ʿIrāq al-Jamhūrīy) was a branch of the Iraqi military from 1969 to 2003,...
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rate of Rs. 13+1⁄3 to KD 1. When Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990, the Iraqi dinar replaced the Kuwaiti dinar as the currency and large quantities of banknotes...
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United Nations Security Council Resolution 660 (category Iraqi invasion of Kuwait)
August 1990, after noting its alarm of the invasion of Kuwait by Iraq, the council condemned the invasion and demanded Iraq withdraw immediately and unconditionally...
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Arab League in support of Kuwait. Following an Iraqi coup in 1963, a treaty of friendship was signed the same year by which Iraq recognised the 1932 border...
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