• days after the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) placed a comprehensive embargo on Iraq. The sanctions stayed largely...
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  • embargoes International sanctions during the Venezuelan crisis International sanctions during apartheid Sanctions against Iraq Sanctions against Japan Sanctions...
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    International sanctions against Syria are a series of economic sanctions and restrictions imposed by the European Union, the United States, Canada, Australia...
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    various economic, trade, scientific and military sanctions against Iran. United States economic sanctions are administered by the Office of Foreign Assets...
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  • number of other countries began applying sanctions with the aim of devastating the Russian economy. The sanctions were wide-ranging, targeting individuals...
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    Many states began to intervene against the Islamic State, in both the Syrian Civil War and the War in Iraq (2013–2017), in response to its rapid territorial...
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    trial, but was acquitted anyway. In the mid-1990s following international sanctions against Iraq, Nasser received $16.6 million worth of Saddam Hussein's...
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    Parallel in 1996) as well as using economic sanctions. It was revealed that a biological weapons (BW) program in Iraq had begun in the early 1980s with inadvertent...
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    United Nations Security Council Resolution 687 (category Sanctions against Iraq)
    sanctions, the Council reiterated international sanctions against Iraq do not apply to foodstuffs or medical aid to the civilian populations of Iraq and...
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    invasion was condemned internationally, and the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) adopted numerous resolutions urging Iraq to withdraw from Kuwaiti...
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    "secondary sanctions", which risk a sanctions designation against a non-U.S. person who transacts with sanctioned parties in violation of U.S. sanctions law...
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    comprehensive sanctions since the mid-1990s, in part due to the controversy over the efficacy and civilian harms attributed to the sanctions against Iraq. Sanctions...
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    Iraq's seizure of Kuwait in August 1990, subsequent international economic sanctions on Iraq, and damage from military action by an international coalition...
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    called the sanctions "the most intrusive system of arms control in history", cited the breakdown of the sanctions as one rationale for the Iraq war. Accepting...
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    Mariam Appeal in 1998 to campaign against sanctions on Iraq. Galloway was accused of receiving illicit payments from Iraq's government, partly from money...
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    drastically due to a combination of external and internal factors. UNSC sanctions against Iraq, in particular, were widely criticized for negatively impacting...
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    Saddam Hussein (category Iraqi people convicted of crimes against humanity)
    in Iraq under sanctions". Significance. 7 (3): 116–120. doi:10.1111/j.1740-9713.2010.00437.x. Rubin, Michael (December 2001). "Sanctions on Iraq: A Valid...
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  • European Union (EU), and other international organizations. In response, Russia has imposed its own sanctions against other countries, which include a...
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    resolution lifting all economic sanctions against Iraq. As the country struggled to rebuild after three wars and a decade of sanctions, it was plagued by violence...
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    training camps. The UN's Al-Qaida Sanctions Committee first listed ISIL in its Sanctions List under the name "Al-Qaida in Iraq" on 18 October 2004, as an entity/group...
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    of Iraq, Saddam Hussein, was internationally condemned for his use of chemical weapons against Iranian and Kurdish civilians during the Iran–Iraq War...
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    economic sanctions by the UN Security Council; the enforcement of Iraqi no-fly zones declared by the US and the UK to protect the Kurds in Iraqi Kurdistan...
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    against Cuba. ABCD line (sanctions against Japan) List of vetoed United Nations Security Council resolutions Sanctions against Iraq Sanctions against...
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    day, but sanctions imposed against Iraq after its invasion of Kuwait in 1990 crippled the country's oil sector. The sanctions prohibited Iraq from exporting...
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    parliament. In response to the vote, Trump threatened Iraq with sanctions that would "make Iranian sanctions look somewhat tame" and demanded reimbursement for...
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    due to revolution, sanctions, and international isolation. Saddam had invested heavily in Iraq's military since his defeat against Iran in 1975, buying...
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  • Portugal, Rhodesia and Iraq, the UN expected all nations to back the sanctions. The UK imposed its own, non-UN sanctions against Iran 1951-53, Egypt in...
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  • largely not supported sanctions imposed by individual countries. The Government of India has largely supported United Nations sanctions. India has also been...
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    noting Iraq's refusal to comply with it and Kuwait's right of self-defence, the Council took steps to implement international sanctions on Iraq under Chapter...
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