Kuwait Liberation Day is a day of intense national pride as it is considered the date on 26 February 1991 when Iraqi troops had to go after a seven-month occupation started in August 1990. Unprovable ...

Tensions have been triggered by the new map presented to the UN by Baghdad, which redefines sovereignty in a disputed area.

Launched after Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait, Operation Desert Shield marked the first phase of the Gulf War. From August 1990 to January 1991, U.S. and coalition forces deployed to Saudi Arabia in one of ...

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 ...

(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 ...

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 ...

Kuwait celebrated on Wednesday the 65th independence anniversary (National Day) and the 35th anniversary of Liberation Day, marking the country’s liberation from the Iraqi invasion of Aug. 2, 1990.