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4 days ago · In mid-January 1991 a coalition of nations, acting under the authority of the United Nations and led by the United States and Saudi Arabia, began launching air strikes against Iraqi forces, and five weeks later it conducted a ground assault into Kuwait and Iraq. By late February Kuwait had been liberated from Iraqi control.
2 days ago · It has been aptly called the Gulf War. (The hostilities of 1991 and 2003 have also been called Gulf wars.) The Iraqi advance into Iran was stopped in November 1980.
5 days ago · Saudi Arabia - Gulf War, Foreign Policy, Middle East: Saudi Arabia owed a tremendous debt to the countries whose forces had defeated Iraq, particularly to the United States. The kingdom repaid this debt in part by purchasing large quantities of weapons from American firms and by supporting the U.S.-led peace process between Israel ...
3 days ago · DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — An attack by Yemen’s Houthi rebels on Monday targeted a ship farther away from nearly all of the previous assaults they’ve launched in the Gulf of Aden, potentially part of a widening escalation by the group.
3 days ago · The combined total of coalition and contractor casualties in the conflict is now over ten times that of the 1990–1991 Gulf War. In the Gulf War, coalition forces suffered around 378 deaths, and among the Iraqi military, tens of thousands were killed, along with thousands of civilians. Troops fallen ill, injured, or wounded
2 days ago · Revolutions in warfare emerged as a subject of considerable debate in the 1990s in the wake of the United States’s resounding victory over Iraqi military forces in the Persian Gulf War. These debates highlight three different concepts: military revolution, military-technical revolution, and revolution in military affairs.
5 days ago · The attack happened Monday morning in the Gulf of Aden some 450 kilometers (280 miles) southeast of Nishtun, a town in the far reaches of Yemen that’s close to the border with Oman, according to the British military’s United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations center.
