Thirty years have passed since Iraqi tyrant Saddam Hussein invaded neighbouring Kuwait, but despite hints of a diplomatic rapprochement, people in both countries say the wounds have yet to heal. On ...
Remember The First Gulf War? Persian Gulf War? Desert Storm and/or Desert Shield? They’re all the same war. Whatever we call it now, it was the war that expelled Iraqi troops from Kuwait, checked a ...
Iraq’s invasion of its neighbor Kuwait on Aug. 2, 1990, caused an international coalition to respond with Operation Desert Shield, eventually culminating in the Coalition forces taking control of the ...
August 2nd marks the 35th anniversary of Saddam Hussein’s 1990 invasion of Kuwait, and therefore the beginning of Operation Desert Shield, which would later fall under the umbrella of the overall ...
Iraq and its national carrier Iraq Airways will pay $300million to Kuwait Airways in compensation for Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait almost two decades ago, an Iraqi government spokesman said ...
(CNN) — Here’s a look at the 1990-1991 Persian Gulf War. In response to Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait in August 1990, the United States and other countries launched military operations known as Operation ...