Ali Hassan al-Majid Salah Aboud Mahmoud

Iraqi civilian deaths:About 3,664 Iraqi civilians killed.Other civilian deaths:2 Israeli civilians killed, 230 injured1 Saudi civilian killed, 65 injured

Iran-Iraq War – Opera – Gulf War – 1991 uprisings – Provide Comfort – Southern Watch – 1993 cruise missile strikes – Kurdish Civil War – Desert Strike – Northern Watch – Desert Fox – Kurdistan Islamist Conflict – Southern Focus – Iraq War

Iraqi InvasionKuwait – Kuwaiti Bridges – Dasman Palace

Coalition InterventionAir Campaign – "Package Q" Air Strike – Khafji – Wadi Al-Batin

Coalition Offensive67 Easting – 73 Easting – Al Busayyah – Phase Line Bullet – Medina Ridge – 2nd Kuwait – Highway of Death – Jalibah – Norfolk

Post-CeasefireRumaila – Safwan

The Persian Gulf War (August 2, 1990 – February 28, 1991), commonly referred to as simply the Gulf War, was a war waged by a U.N.-authorized coalition force from thirty-four nations led by the United States against Iraq.

This war has also been referred to (by the former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein) as the mother of all Battles, and is commonly known as Operation Desert Storm for the operational name of the military response. or the First Gulf War or the Iraq War.

The invasion of Kuwait by Iraqi troops that began 2 August 1990 was met with international condemnation, and brought immediate economic sanctions against Iraq by members of the UN Security Council. U.S. President George H. W. Bush deployed American forces to Saudi Arabia almost 6 months afterwards, and urged other countries to send their own forces to the scene. An array of nations joined the Coalition of the Gulf War. The great majority of the military forces in the coalition were from the United States, with Saudi Arabia, the United Kingdom and Egypt as leading contributors, in that order. Around US$40 billion of the US$60 billion cost was paid by Saudi Arabia.