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On 2 August 1990, the Iraqi Army invaded and occupied the neighboring state of Kuwait. [5] The invasion, which followed the inconclusive Iran–Iraq War and three decades of political conflict with Kuwait, offered Saddam Hussein the opportunity to distract political dissent at home and add Kuwait's oil resources to Iraq's own, a boon in a time of declining petroleum prices.
The war is also known under other names, such as the Second Gulf War (not to be confused with the 2003 Iraq War, also referred to as such [27]), Persian Gulf War, Kuwait War, First Iraq War, or Iraq War [28] [29] [30] [b] before the term "Iraq War" became identified with the 2003 Iraq War (also known in the US as "Operation Iraqi Freedom"). [31]
Two Iraqi T-54/55 tanks lie abandoned near Kuwait City on February 26, 1991. The attack began on the 26th when A-6 Intruder attack jets of the United States Marine Corps' 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing blocked the head and tail of the column on Highway 80, bombarding a massive vehicle column of mostly Iraqi Regular Army forces with Mk-20 Rockeye II cluster bombs, effectively boxing in the Iraqi ...
14 September: United Kingdom and France announce the deployment of troops to Saudi Arabia. 25 September: United Nations Security Council Resolution 661 implements civil aviation sanctions on Iraq. 17 October: 200,000 American, 15,000 British and 11,000 French troops are stationed in the Gulf region. 8 November: U.S. sends more troops to the ...
The threat posed by the Iranian Revolution in 1979 to the Arabian Gulf states forced Saudi Arabia to back Iraq during the Iran–Iraq War and cut its diplomatic ties with Iran. Saudi Arabia and Iraq saw each other as allies with a common goal of counterbalancing Iranian expansion and radical Shia Islamism. Unlike Iran, Iraq was not too ...
The sorties were launched mostly from Saudi Arabia and the six Coalition aircraft carrier battle groups in the Persian Gulf and Red Sea. During the initial 24 hours 2,775 sorties were flown, including seven B-52s which flew a 35-hour nonstop 14,000-mile round-trip from Barksdale Air Force Base and launched 35 AGM-86 CALCM cruise missiles ...
A research paper argues why Saudi Arabia should be building The Circle — and not The Line. ... The city—stretching from the Red City to the city of Tabuk 110 miles away—along with its ...
In the first week of January 1976, MODA named the new city King Khalid Military City in honor of Saudi King Khalid. [2] Planning for the city began in 1974, and construction commenced after the establishment of a new Persian Gulf port in Ra's al-Mish'ab to handle all the materials being transported. Built in collaboration with local national ...