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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 August 2, 1990 – February 28, 1991 (Operation Desert Storm officially ended 30 November 1995)[1] 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  Egypt  France  Syria  Morocco  Qatar  Oman  Pakistan  Canada Other Coalition forces Iraq Commanders Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah George H.W. Bush Norman Schwarzkopf Colin Powell Calvin Waller King Fahd Prince Abdullah Prince Sultan Turki Al-Faisal Saleh Al-Muhaya Khalid bin Sultan[2][3] Andrew Wilson Peter de la Billière John Chapple Michel Roquejoffre Mohamed Hussein Tantawi Mustafa Tlass Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani Saddam Hussein Ali Hassan al-Majid Salah Aboud Mahmoud Strength 959,600[4] 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[5] 545,000 (100,000 in Kuwait)+ 649 fighters 4,500 tanks (Chinese Type-59s, Type-69s, & self produced T-55 T-62, about 200 Soviet Union T-72M's Asad Babil)[5] Casualties and losses 379 killed 776 wounded[6] 80 captured 20,000-35,000 casualties[6] 60,000 captured[7] Kuwaiti civilian deaths: About 1,000 Kuwaiti civilians killed during the Iraqi occupation in addition to 300,000 refugees.[8] Iraqi civilian deaths: About 3,664 Iraqi civilians killed.[9] Other civilian deaths: 2 Israeli civilians killed, 230 injured[10] 1 Saudi civilian killed, 65 injured[11]

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