Kuwait

1991: The South Iraq and Kurdistan uprisings

Shiite protesters in the uprising

The history of the uprisings in Southern Iraq and Kurdistan in 1990-91 which involved large numbers of mutinous troops who had deserted during the Kuwait Gulf War.

Crushed by Saddam Hussein's regime, the article covers the roles of the Allied forces and the Kurdish nationalist parties.

Ten Days that shook Iraq

1990-1991: The Gulf War

US warplanes fly over burning oil wells

Noam Chomsky on the 1991 US and UK war with Iraq following Iraq's invasion of Kuwait.


When Iraq invaded Kuwait in August 1990, the United Nations Security Council immediately condemned Iraq and imposed severe sanctions on it. Why was the UN response so prompt and so unprecedently firm? The US government-media alliance had a standard answer.

1990-1991: Resistance to the Gulf War

Demonstrators crowd the streets of Washington to protest against the Gulf War

An account of the worldwide movement of resistance to the 1990-91 Gulf War. The resistance mainly took the form of strikes, marches, base blockades and refusals to fight.


Do you remember the first time?

1990-1991: Iraqi mass mutiny in the Gulf War

Massacred civilians and deserted troops on the Basra road

History of the widespread desertion and mutiny in the Iraqi military which saw the rapid end of the occupation of Kuwait and the Gulf War of 1990-1 with the US and its allies.

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