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    States battle deaths during the Gulf War. Most of the 37 Iraqi ballistic missiles fired at Saudi Arabia were aimed at military targets, leading to low civilian...
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    The Royal Saudi Strategic Missile Force (Arabic: قوة الصواريخ الإستراتيجية الملكية السعودية) or RSSMF is the fifth branch of the Saudi Arabian Armed Forces...
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    A Scud missile is one of a series of tactical ballistic missiles developed by the Soviet Union during the Cold War. It was exported widely to both Second...
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    short-range ballistic missile developed in Ba'athist Iraq. An upgraded version of Scud missile, the al-Husayn was widely used by the Iraqi Army during...
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    original on 17 April 2021. Retrieved 17 April 2021. "Coalition takes out 5 ballistic missiles, 4 drones in Houthi attacks against Saudi Arabia". Arab News...
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    that the attacks originated from the north. According to the NCRI, the attack came from the Omidiyeh military base in Ahvaz. Saudi Arabia's missile defense...
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    standoff attack against Israel around midnight on 13 April. Iran's attack sent around 170 drones, over 30 cruise missiles, and more than 120 ballistic missiles...
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    On 26 March 2015, Saudi Arabia, leading a coalition of nine countries from West Asia and North Africa, launched an intervention in Yemen at the request...
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    against Iraqi missiles in the 2003 Iraq War, and has also been used by Saudi and Emirati forces in the Yemen conflict against Houthi missile attacks. The...
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    Gulf War (redirect from Iraqi wars)
    Muslim-majority countries. Iraqi missile barrages against coalition targets in Saudi Arabia were also largely unsuccessful, and on 24 February 1991, the coalition...
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    confrontation between Iran and Saudi Arabia. On 4 November the Royal Saudi Air Defense intercepted a ballistic missile over Riyadh International Airport...
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    Prime Minister of Saudi Arabia from 13 June 1982 until his death in 2005. Prior to his ascension, he was Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia from 1975 to 1982...
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    Navy, the Royal Saudi Air Force, the Royal Saudi Air Defense, and the Royal Saudi Strategic Missile Force. The King of Saudi Arabia is the Supreme commander-in-chief...
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    missiles and 15 drones. Another missile was reportedly intercepted by Saudi Arabia. More were intercepted by Israel's Arrow anti-ballistic missiles;...
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    cruise missile and airstrikes, codenamed Operation Poseidon Archer, against the Houthi movement (Ansar Allah) in Yemen in response to Houthi attacks on ships...
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    has been assisting in Saudi Arabia's ballistic missile programme by transferring technology and making joint ventures for missile production. Mohammed...
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    DongFeng 3A Intermediate-Range Ballistic Missile was developed for an export order to Saudi Arabia in 1987. About 30+ missiles and 9~12 launchers were reportedly...
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  • base at Arba Minch Airport in September 2015. 4 January A day after Saudi Arabia severed diplomatic relations with Iran it suspended civilian flights...
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    Houthi movement (category Organizations designated as terrorist by Saudi Arabia)
    including help with manufacturing ballistic missiles used in attacks targeting cities and oil fields in Saudi Arabia. In August 2018, despite previous...
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    Resistance in Iraq has claimed responsibility for drone and missile attacks against targets within Israel in retaliation for Israeli attacks on Palestinian...
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    DF-21 (category Ballistic missiles of the People's Republic of China)
    DF-ZF on the DF-17 missile. In January 2014, Newsweek revealed that Saudi Arabia had secretly bought a number of DF-21 medium-range ballistic missiles in...
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    missiles; they destroyed numerous armoured vehicles and impeded the Iraqi advance, though not completely halting it. Meanwhile, Iraqi air attacks on Iran...
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    Guard Corps (IRGC) launched over 12 ballistic missiles at the al-Asad Airbase in Al Anbar Governorate, western Iraq, as well as another airbase in Erbil...
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    a potential home-on-jam feature, and in 1995, a new warhead that made it capable against short-range tactical ballistic missiles. Jane's reported that...
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    Pakistan and Saudi Arabia established relations in 1947, when Pakistan and India split. Relations have been historically close and friendly, frequently...
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  • Thumbnail for S-400 missile system
    reprogrammed S-400 missiles to launch ballistic ground-to-ground attacks. In such an attack on 13 December 2023 out of 10 missiles fired at Kyiv, all...
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    2020. "DOD Statement on Iranian Ballistic Missile Attacks in Iraq". United States Department of Defense. Archived from the original on 8 January 2020. Retrieved...
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    Riyadh (redirect from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia)
    [er.rɪˈjɑːðˤ]; lit. 'the Meadows') is the capital and largest city of Saudi Arabia. It is also the capital of the Riyadh Province and the centre of the...
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    the sand berms along the Iraqi border with Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and Kuwait in the early morning hours and drove into Iraq. Unofficially, the British...
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  • Hezbollah, and the Yemeni Houthis, launched attacks against Israel using drones, cruise missiles, and ballistic missiles. Iran stated that the operation was done...
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