Ka cika wannan jumlar: A ranar 1 ga Agusta, 1990, Shugaban Iraqi Saddam Hussein
ya tura sojojin Iraqi masu mamayewa zuwa makwabciyar Kuwait, karamar kasa mai arzikin man fetur da Iraqi ta dade tana ikirarin wani bangare ne na yankinta. Wannan mamayewa ya haifar da fara yakin Gulf na Farisa kuma ya kawo la'anar duniya. Kimanin sojoji Iraki 140,000 da sauri suka karɓi ikon Kuwait City kuma suka matsa zuwa kan iyakar Saudi Arabiya / Kuwait. Amurka ta riga ta fara haɓaka tsare-tsaren gaggawa don kare Saudi Arabiya ta Babban Kwamandan Amurka, wanda Janar Norman Schwarzkopf ke jagoranta, saboda mahimmancin ajiyar mai.