Ogun Gulf Pẹ́rsíà

Persian Gulf War

Persian Gulf War
Ogun Gulf Pẹ́rsíà
Clockwise from top: USAF aircraft flying over burning Kuwaiti oil wells; British troops in Operation Granby; Camera view of a Lockheed AC-130; Highway of Death; M728 Combat Engineer Vehicle
Date 2 August 1990 – 28 February 1991 (Operation Desert Storm officially ended 30 November 1995)
Location Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia
Result
  • Coalition victory
  • Imposition of sanctions against Iraq
  • Removal of Iraqi invasion force from Kuwait
  • Heavy Iraqi casualties and destruction of Iraqi and Kuwaiti infrastructure
Belligerents
Ogun Gulf Pẹ́rsíà Kuwait

Ogun Gulf Pẹ́rsíà United States
Ogun Gulf Pẹ́rsíà Saudi Arabia
Ogun Gulf Pẹ́rsíà United Kingdom
Ogun Gulf Pẹ́rsíà France
Ogun Gulf Pẹ́rsíà Egypt
Ogun Gulf Pẹ́rsíà Syria
Ogun Gulf Pẹ́rsíà Canada

Other Coalition forces

Iraq Iraq
Commanders
Kuwaiti Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah

Àwọn Ìpínlẹ̀ Aṣọ̀kan Norman Schwarzkopf
Àwọn Ìpínlẹ̀ Aṣọ̀kan Colin Powell
Sáúdí Arábíà Khalid bin Sultan
Ilẹ̀ọba Aṣọ̀kan Andrew Wilson
Ilẹ̀ọba Aṣọ̀kan Peter de la Billière

Iraq Saddam Hussein

Iraq Ali Hassan al-Majid
Iraq Salah Aboud Mahmoud

Strength
959,600
1,820 Fighter aircraft and attack aircraft (1,376 American, 175 Saudi, 69 British, 42 French, 24 Canadian, 8 Italian)
3,318 tanks (mainly M1 Abrams(U.S.),Challenger 1(UK), M60(U.S.))
8 aircraft carriers
2 battleships
20 cruisers
20 destroyers
5 submarines
545,000 (100,000 in Kuwait)+
649 fighters
4,500 tanks (Chinese Type-59s, Type-69s, & self produced T-55 T-62, about 500 Soviet Union T-72)
Casualties and losses
379 killed

776 wounded

20,000-35,000 casualties
Civilian deaths:
About 3,664 Iraqi civilians killed.

2 Israeli civilians killed, 230 injured
1 Saudi civilian killed, 65 injured
Around 1,000 Kuwaiti civilians killed during the Iraqi occupation in addition to 300,000 refugees.


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