| Gulf War |
Clockwise from top: USAF F-15Es, F-16s, and a USAF F-15C flying over burning Kuwaiti oil wells; British troops from the Staffordshire Regiment in Operation Granby; camera view from a Lockheed AC-130; Highway of Death; M728 Combat Engineer Vehicle |
| Date |
2 August 1990 – 28 February 1991
(6 months, 3 weeks and 5 days)
(Operation Desert Storm officially ended on 30 November 1995)[1] |
| Location |
Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Israel |
| Result |
Decisive coalition victory
- Iraqi withdrawal from Kuwait; Emir Jaber III restored
- Heavy casualties and destruction of Iraqi and Kuwaiti infrastructure
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| Belligerents |
| Coalition forces:
 Kuwait
 United States
 United Kingdom
 Saudi Arabia
 France
 Canada
 Egypt
 Syria
 Qatar
 United Arab Emirates
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 Iraq |
| Commanders and leaders |
Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah
George H. W. Bush
Dick Cheney
Colin Powell
Norman Schwarzkopf
Charles Horner
Frederick Franks
Calvin Waller
John A. Warden III
Margaret Thatcher
John Major
Patrick Hine
Andrew Wilson
Peter de la Billière
John Chapple
King Fahd
Prince Abdullah
Prince Sultan
Turki Al-Faisal
Saleh Al-Muhaya
Khalid bin Sultan[3][4]
Kenneth J. Summers
François Mitterrand
Michel Roquejoffre
Hosni Mubarak
Mohamed Hussein Tantawi
Hafez al-Assad
Mustafa Tlass
Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan
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Saddam Hussein
Ali Hassan al-Majid
Salah Aboud Mahmoud
Hussein Kamel al-Majid
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| Strength |
| 956,600,[5] more than 500,000 of which were US soldiers[6] |
650,000 soldiers |
| Casualties and losses |
Coalition:
190 killed by enemy action, 44 killed by friendly fire, 248 killed by in-theater accidents
Total: 482 Killed
458 wounded[7] - 776 wounded[8]
Kuwait:
200 KIA[9] |
20,000–35,000 killed
75,000+ wounded[8]
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Kuwaiti civilian losses:
Over 1,000 killed[10]
Iraqi civilian losses:
About 3,664 killed[11]
Other civilian losses:
2 Israeli civilians killed, 297 injured[12]
1 Saudi civilian killed, 65 injured[13]
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Iraq
Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah
