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1960 September 14 — Iran
, Iraq
, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia
and Venezuela
form OPEC
.
1961 The British protectorate
ends in Kuwait and it becames an emirate.
1961 Iraq
i president Abdul Karim Kassem announces he is going to annex Kuwait.
1961 The Arab League
takes over protecting Kuwait - the last British troops leave.
1966 Saudi Arabia
and the United Arab Republic
begin negotiations in Kuwait to end the war in Yemen
.
1981 In Riyadh, the Gulf Cooperation Council is created between Bahrain
, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar
, Saudi Arabia
and the United Arab Emirates
.
1990 Gulf War
: Iraq
invades Kuwait, eventually leading to the Gulf War
.
1990 Gulf War
: The United Nations Security Council
orders a global trade embargo against Iraq
in response to Iraq's
invasion of Kuwait.
1990 Gulf War
: President George H. W. Bush
delivers a nationally televised speech in which he threatens the use of force to remove Iraqi
soldiers from Kuwait.
1990 Gulf War
: The United Nations Security Council
passes UN Security Council Resolution 678, authorizing military intervention in Iraq
if that nation does not withdraw its forces from Kuwait and free all foreign hostages by Tuesday, January 15, 1991.
1991 Gulf War
: The U.S. Congress passes a resolution authorizing the use of military force to liberate Kuwait.
1991 Siad Barre is succeeded by Ali Mahdi Muhammad in Somalia
.
'', U.S. military decimates the Iraqi Army as it retreats from Kuwait.]]
1991 Gulf War: Ground troops cross the Saudi Arabian
border and enter Kuwait, thus starting the ground phase of the war.
1991 Gulf War: On Baghdad
radio, Iraq
i leader Saddam Hussein
announces the withdrawal of Iraqi troops from Kuwait. Iraqi soldiers set fire to Kuwaiti oil fields as they retreat.
1991 Gulf War: Kuwait is liberated, and a ceasefire is declared, after 100 hours of ground fighting. Iraq accepts the terms of the ceasefire, which call for the country to disarm.
1991 The last oil well fire is put out in Kuwait.
1993 The Kuwaiti government claims to uncover an Iraq
i assassination plot against former U.S. President George H. W. Bush
shortly after his visit to Kuwait. Two Iraqi nationals, caught with smuggled hashish and alcohol inside Kuwait, confess to driving a car-bomb into Kuwait on behalf of the Iraq Secret Service.
1993 Iraq disarmament crisis
: Iraq
refuses to allow UNSCOM inspectors to use its own aircraft to fly into Iraq, and begins military operations in the demilitarized zone between Iraq and Kuwait, and the northern No-Fly Zone. U.S. forces fire approximately 40 Tomahawk cruise missiles at Baghdad
factories linked to Iraq's illegal nuclear weapons program. Iraq then informs UNSCOM that it will be able to resume its flights.
1993 U.S. President Bill Clinton
orders a cruise missile attack on Iraqi
intelligence headquarters in the Al-Mansur
District of Baghdad
, in response to the attempted assassination of former U.S. President George H. W. Bush
during his visit to Kuwait in mid-April.
1994 Iraq disarmament crisis
: Iraq
threatens to stop cooperating with UNSCOM inspectors and begins to once again deploy troops near its border with Kuwait. In response, the U.S. begins to deploy troops to Kuwait.
1994 Iraq disarmament crisis
: Iraq
threatens to stop cooperating with UNSCOM inspectors and begins to once again deploy troops near its border with Kuwait. In response, the U.S. begins to deploy troops to Kuwait.
2003 Iraq disarmament crisis
: The United Arab Emirates
calls for Iraqi President Saddam Hussein to step down to avoid war, a sentiment later echoed by Bahrain
and Kuwait.
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