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| | Gulf War |
 | | The Gulf War (also: Persian Gulf War, War in the Gulf, Iraq-Kuwait Conflict, UN-Iraq conflict, and Operations Desert Shield, Desert Storm, and Desert Saber) (1990- 1991) was a conflict between Iraq and a coalition force of 34 nations led by the United States. |
 | | Following the Iran-Iraq War of the 1980s, Iraq was extremely indebted to several Arab countries, including a $14 billion debt to Kuwait (Hiro, 1992). |
 | | During the war, Iraq enjoyed good relations with the United States: the United States tilted towards supporting Iraq, despite (or perhaps because of) earlier Soviet influence in Iraq, and supplied it with weapons and economic aid (with the only abberation being the Iran-Contra affair, where some American officials secretly and illegally sold arms to Iran). |
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