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| + | [[Image:Flag of Kuwait.svg|22px|border]] Kwait<br/> |
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[[Image:Flag of Israel.png|22px|border]] Israel<br/> |
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| - | [[Image:Saudi Arabia Flag 1938.png|22px|border]] Saudi Arabia<br/> |
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[[Image:Flag of North Yemen.svg|22px|border]] Yemen Arab Republic<br/> |
[[Image:Flag of North Yemen.svg|22px|border]] Yemen Arab Republic<br/> |
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[[Image:Flag of Kuwait.svg|22px|border]] Kwait<br/>
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[[Image:Flag of Jordan.png|22px|border]] Jordan<br/> |
[[Image:Flag of Jordan.png|22px|border]] Jordan<br/> |
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[[Image:Flag of Lebanon.svg|22px|border]] Lebanon<br/> |
[[Image:Flag of Lebanon.svg|22px|border]] Lebanon<br/> |
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| + | [[Image:Flag of Israel.png|22px|border]] '''Shimon Peres'''<br/> |
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| + | [[Image:Flag of Israel.png|22px|border]] Ehud Barak<br/> |
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| + | [[Image:Flag of Kuwait.svg|22px|border]] '''Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah'''<br/> |
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| + | [[Image:Flag of North Yemen.svg|22px|border]] Ali Abdullah Saleh<br/> |
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| + | [[Image:Saudi Arabia Flag 1938.png|22px|border]] '''Fahad bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud'''<br/> |
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| + | [[Image:Saudi Arabia Flag 1938.png|22px|border]] Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz<br/> |
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| + | [[Image:Saudi Arabia Flag 1938.png|22px|border]] Saleh Al-Muhaya<br/> |
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| + | [[Image:Saudi Arabia Flag 1938.png|22px|border]] Khalid bin Sultan<br/> |
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| + | [[Image:Flag of the United States of America.png|22px|border]] Norman Schwarzkopf<br/> |
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| + | [[Image:Flag of the United States of America.png|22px|border]] David E. Jeremiah<br/> |
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| + | [[Image:250px-Flag of the United Kingdom.svg.png|22px|border]] Andrew Wilson<br/> |
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| + | [[Image:250px-Flag of the United Kingdom.svg.png|22px|border]] Peter de la Billière<br/> |
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| + | [[Image:Flag of Iraq, 1991-2004.svg|22px|border]] '''Saddam Hussein'''<br/> |
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| + | [[Image:Flag of Iraq, 1991-2004.svg|22px|border]] Ali Hassan al-Majid<br/> |
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| + | [[Image:Flag of Iraq, 1991-2004.svg|22px|border]] Taha Yassin Ramadan<br/> |
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| + | [[Image:Flag of Iraq, 1991-2004.svg|22px|border]] Izzat Ibrahim ad-Douri<br/> |
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| + | [[Image:Flag of Iraq, 1991-2004.svg|22px|border]] Salah Aboud Mahmoud<br/> |
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| + | [[Image:Flag of Iraq, 1991-2004.svg|22px|border]] Tariq Aziz<br/> |
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| + | [[Image:Flag of Syria.png|22px|border]] '''Hafez al-Assad'''<br/> |
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| + | [[Image:Flag of Syria.png|22px|border]] Mustafa Tlass<br/> |
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| + | [[Image:Flag of Syria.png|22px|border]] Ali Habib Mahmud<br/> |
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| + | [[Image:Flag of South Yemen.svg|22px|border]] '''Abdul Fattah Ismail'''<br/> |
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The Great Middle East War (8 February 1993 - 21 November 1997), also known as the Fifth Arab-Israeli War, the Great Gulf War or the Middle Eastern World War was a military conflict initiated by an alliance of Arab nations led by Iraq against the state of Israel followed by Iraq's annexation of Kwait and the invasion of North Yemen by South Yemen. The war would later escalate to involve most countries in the region and the participation of an international coalition led by the United States against Iraq and her allies. Over ten million people died, the majority of whom were civilians, were killed, making it the third deadliest conflict in human history, being surpassed only by the two World Wars. This war also marked the first use of nuclear weapons since World War II.
The war saw widespread usage of weapons of mass destruction which caused critical damage to the enviroment and infrastructure of the principal countries involved, it nearly halted two thirds of international oil exports prompting a world wide economical and energetical crisis not presentiated since World War II and raised the threat of a direct confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union to the highest peak since the Cuban Missile Crisis.
