Persian Gulf War

Persian Gulf War
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
Kuwait United States Saudi Arabia United Kingdom France Egypt Syria Canada Other Coalition forces	Iraq
Commanders
Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah Norman Schwarzkopf Colin Powell Khalid bin Sultan Andrew Wilson Peter de la Billière	Saddam Hussein Ali Hassan al-Majid 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.

Persian Gulf War