Just after midnight on August 2, 1990, an invasion force of approximately 100,000 Iraqi troops crossed into Kuwait. As mechanized and armored Republican Guard divisions breached the border and sped ...

KUWAIT (Reuters) - OPEC member Kuwait plans to launch a project to clean up what it calls "oil lakes", referring to ground contamination resulting from crude spills during the Iraqi invasion 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 ...

KUWAIT (Reuters) - Iraq's state airline will resume flights to Kuwait this week for the first time since former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein invaded the Gulf oil state in 1990, Kuwait said on Tuesday, ...

Sky Documentaries delves into an extraordinary chapter from the Gulf War that is as fascinating as it is horrifying in Flight 149: Hostage of War. The 367 passengers and crew of British Airways flight ...

October 11, 2014 -- More than 20 years have passed since Iraq's occupation of Kuwait while the fate of hundreds of Kuwaitis and other nationals remains unknown. Abducted by Iraqi forces, who invaded ...

KUWAIT CITY (AP) – Sheik Saud Al Nasser Al Sabah, who served as Kuwait’s ambassador to the U.S. during Iraq’s 1990 invasion of the oil-rich country and the American-led war to oust Saddam Hussein’s ...

08 July 2009 Kuwait is open to investing into Iraq some $25 billion still owed it in reparations from the 1990-1991 Gulf crisis, Iraq's parliament speaker said while visiting Kuwait Wednesday. A ...

Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, conducts his first visit to Kuwait for the first time since the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990, and officially participates in the official ceremony to open a ...