• The Battle of the Bridges (Arabic: معركة الجسور) was a battle that took place on 2 August 1990, in Kuwait following the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. (wikipedia.org)
  • Despite the diplomatic tension and the Iraqi buildup on the border, no central orders were issued to the Kuwaiti armed forces and they were not on alert. (wikipedia.org)
  • From Iraqi reports, it appears that much of the 17th Brigade was not significantly delayed and continued advancing on its objective in Kuwait City. (wikipedia.org)
  • The border was initially closed after Baghdad and Riyadh cut ties following former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait. (eosrisk.com)
  • Thursday morning, March 20, the Iraqi military moved onto the offensive against the allied troop buildup on the Kuwait-Iraqi frontier and Kuwait itself. (debka.com)
  • debka file `s Kuwait correspondent reports from sources with the US 3rd Infantry Division on the Kuwait-Iraq border: The surrender of the Iraqi 11th and 51st divisions is under negotiation with US military officers and is expected in the coming hours. (debka.com)
  • It is the first time KOC will develop such a big heavy oil reservoir and the plan is to produce 60,000 bpd from Ratqa, which lies close to the Iraqi border [in northern Kuwait]…and then ramp it up to 120,000 bpd by 2025. (desmog.com)
  • Kuwait has moved some of its security forces to the borders with Iraq as a precautionary measure in anticipation of any excesses by participants in a rally held on the Iraqi side. (middleeastobserver.org)
  • Based on the information about the presence of Iraqi crowds in Umm Qasr adjacent to the area of Khur Abdullah, several Kuwaiti military battalions, particularly security, control and armour forces, were moved to the border region as a precautionary measure and the state of alert and readiness was raised," the assistant undersecretary for land border security, Abdullah Al Muhanna, told Kuwaiti daily Al Jareeda. (middleeastobserver.org)
  • Iraqi sources said that the rally on Friday was initially planned to be held alongside the border, but was shifted to another location after security forces requested the change of location. (middleeastobserver.org)
  • However, last month the Iraqi parliament flared up following bitter standoffs between lawmakers who accused their government of surrendering the maritime border to Kuwait through the agreements and others who defended the official stance. (middleeastobserver.org)
  • Iraqi Prime Minister Dr Haider Al Abadi, in a statement on January 31, termed as "unjustified" the raising by some parties of the issues of Khor Abdullah and border demarcation with Kuwait, even though the frontiers were demarcated per UN Resolution 833. (middleeastobserver.org)
  • In Kuwait, Deputy Foreign Minister Khalid Al Jarallah in February insisted that Kuwait did not take even a single inch of Iraqi territory. (middleeastobserver.org)
  • Travel north of Jahra toward the Iraqi-Kuwaiti border is not authorized without approval from the embassy and an appropriate escort. (scoop.co.nz)
  • Two weeks ago Hosemann visited Mississippi troops on the Kuwait - Iraqi border. (wlox.com)
  • A 1937 treaty, brokered at a time when imperial Britain still held sway in Iraq, placed the Iraqi-Iranian border at the low-water line on the Iranian side of the waterway, putting Iran at a considerable disadvantage. (washingtoninstitute.org)
  • A coalition of thirty-five nations fought, forced Iraqi troops back to the border, and left. (blogspot.com)
  • When the Islamic State invaded the north in 2014, Kirkuk city and its oil fields were defended not by the Iraqi army, but by Kurdish Peshmerga, who seized the fields and began exporting Kirkuk oil through the KRG pipeline to the Turkish border and then on to the port of Ceyhan. (washingtoninstitute.org)
  • Iraq and Kuwait, which share borders with Iran, were on high alert for a potential outbreak after banning travel to and from the Islamic republic, although they have not confirmed any cases domestically. (hurriyetdailynews.com)
  • Saudi Arabia broke off relations with Tehran after its diplomatic missions in Iran were stormed by protesters, while Kuwait recalled its envoy to Tehran. (rferl.org)
  • Turkey made the announcement as it closed its borders to transit from Iran in order to protect its citizens. (thetrumpet.com)
  • Iraq, Armenia, Pakistan, Kuwait and Afghanistan have all shuttered their borders to Iran or instituted stringent border checks. (thetrumpet.com)
  • So, instead of doing what any normal country would do-canceling the elections, alerting the public to the dangers associated with the outbreak, and the need to avoid large public gatherings-Iran muzzled the media and went ahead with its regime-endorsing vote. (thetrumpet.com)
  • With the election over, Iran has opened its borders to teams of scientists and experts to help contain the virus. (thetrumpet.com)
  • If Iran and Russia are able to enter this country with such flimsy pretexts, if they are able to bomb even the zero point of our border, if they are exiling Syrian civilians to Turkey and attacking Turkey from Syria, then Turkey has far more reason and right than they. (moonofalabama.org)
  • The men, who served with the coalition forces in Iraq, had been in three boats intercepted in the Shatt al-Arab waterway, the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers that forms the border with Iran. (washingtoninstitute.org)
  • By a 1975 treaty, the border between Iran and Iraq lies along the so-called "thalweg line," the midpoint of the deep-water channel. (washingtoninstitute.org)
  • The Kuwait 35th Armored Brigade of the Kuwaiti Army had been put on alert at 22:00 on 1 August. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Kuwaitis reached the Saudi border at 16:30, spending the night on the Kuwaiti side before crossing over the next morning. (wikipedia.org)
  • Kuwait, and be aware that they will need to obtain a new Kuwaiti visa upon return, even after a daytrip to Baghdad. (scoop.co.nz)
  • These were the details of the news No PCR test traps Kuwaiti on border for 22 hours for this day. (alkhaleejtoday.co)
  • Kuwait also issued an advisory early on Saturday calling on Kuwaitis in Lebanon to stay alert and avoid "areas of security disturbances" but stopped short of asking them to leave the country, according to a statement by the Kuwaiti Foreign Ministry posted on X. (jpost.com)
  • The recent decision by Iraq's Constitutional Court to annul a 2013 law that regulated the use of the Khor Abdullah waterway shared with Kuwait has continued to cause diplomatic waves, with Kuwait rallying its international friends and partners to put pressure on Baghdad over the decision. (gsn-online.com)
  • Khor Abdullah is a waterway between Kuwait and Iraq, and the agreement between the two countries is related to the regulation of navigation, and not to the demarcation of the border," Al Jarallah said. (middleeastobserver.org)
  • The United Arab Emirates (UAE), Kuwait, and Iraq on Saturday advised their nationals against traveling to Ukraine as tension continues to escalate between Russia and the West. (turkishpress.com)
  • Tools and guidance for recognizing and reporting ill travelers have been issued to US flight crews, Emergency Medical Service (EMS) units at airports, and US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers. (medscape.com)
  • The Republican campaign of Sarah Palin admitted on Satuday that contrary to their previous assertions,she had not actually visited US troops inside Iraq , only visiting a border checkpoint while she was in Kuwait. (juancole.com)
  • Russian troops launched a missile attack on September 29 on the southern Ukrainian city of Mykolayiv, damaging infrastructure, a regional official said, as the governor of Russia's Kursk region bordering Ukraine said a drone attack had cut off the energy supply of several settlements in the area. (rferl.org)
  • Middle Eastern potentates warned us of chemical rockets that would shower our troops in Kuwait. (debatepolitics.com)
  • 5 Preliminary data on 22 cases of cutaneous leishmaniasis contracted by American troops in Afghanistan, Kuwait, and Iraq and treated at Walter Reed Army Medical Center between August 2002 and September 2003 were recently released. (aafp.org)
  • The collective GCC rail sector is expected to spend $200 billion as the six member countries - Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, UAE, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar aim to complete the integrated GCC-wide network by 2018. (middleeasteye.net)
  • Gulf states Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Bahrain urged their citizens to leave Lebanon "for their own safety" days after fierce fighting between Palestinian groups took place in Ain al-Hilweh refugee camp near Sidon, southern Lebanon. (jpost.com)
  • In 2010, Iraq and Kuwait signed an agreement - an armistice really - to share the border oilfield. (desmog.com)
  • Following his disastrous defeat in Kuwait, Saddam Hussein, seeking to shore up his support, gave his regime a more Islamic complexion. (independent.co.uk)
  • In 1990, Saddam Hussein conquered and annexed Kuwait. (blogspot.com)
  • After 27 years, Saudi Arabia is set to open the Arar border crossing with Iraq, establishing joint trade deals between Riyadh and Baghdad. (eosrisk.com)
  • At the start of the conflict I listened to him from Iraq-these days communications are so much easier than through the old cable offices-as he made his way with a tank unit from the Kuwait border to Baghdad among American soldiers who had been told that they would be welcomed as liberators. (theyworkforyou.com)
  • In Basra, in the late 1970s, the main local complaint was that Kuwaitis were pouring across the border and drinking the city dry. (independent.co.uk)
  • The immediate aim of the Syrian forces is to close the border with Turkey and to liberate Aleppo city from the Jihadi insurgents. (moonofalabama.org)
  • ANKARA: Turkey is constructing 2.5-km-long twin walls at a border crossing with Syria to increase security at the frontier following three deadly bombings this year.The concrete walls will be built on either side of the road leading from the Turkish side of the crossing at Cilvegozu to the Syrian. (arabnews.com)
  • And while Kuwait - the small Gulf state sandwiched between Iraq and Saudi Arabia - has made a wager on Alberta's shale and tar sands, Big Oil may also soon make a big bet on Kuwait's homegrown tar sands resources . (desmog.com)
  • In 1992, two Qatari guards were killed in a clash along the Saudi-Qatari border, precipitating a decade of poor relations. (blogspot.com)
  • Saudi Minister of Transport Jebarah bin Eid al-Suraisri attends a meeting of Arab transportation ministers in Kuwait City (AFP). (middleeasteye.net)
  • Terrorism knows no border and its danger could affect several countries outside the Middle East," Saudi King Abdullah was quoted as telling ambassadors, including the US envoy. (middleeasteye.net)
  • Ironically, when Otaibi decided to head back to Kuwait, he was also denied access because he did not have a Saudi PCR certificate. (alkhaleejtoday.co)
  • Nuwaiseeb land border exit manager Col Yousif Al-Muhaini told Al-Rai that Otaibi arrived at the border center in the afternoon requesting to depart to Saudi Arabia as his mother is a Saudi national. (alkhaleejtoday.co)
  • After stamping his passport, officials at the Saudi Khafji land border exit refused him entry because he did not hold a PCR certificate from Kuwait as mandated by Saudi health authorities as part of precautionary measures taken to fight COVID-19," Muhaini explained. (alkhaleejtoday.co)
  • Muhaini added that security forces at Nuwaiseeb land border exit were surprised the following morning by Otaibi showing up demanding to return to Kuwait, which was denied because he did not have a PCR certificate from Saudi Arabia. (alkhaleejtoday.co)
  • However, Muhaini said that upon instructions from the land border exits director Brig Eyad Al-Haddad, the Saudi border exit was contacted to make sure Otaibi had not entered the kingdom, then the Kuwait MoH was contacted because the doctor stationed at Nuwaiseeb rejected the citizen's return without a Saudi PCR certificate. (alkhaleejtoday.co)
  • None of the prohibition on alcohol seen in Saudi Arabia or Kuwait held sway. (independent.co.uk)
  • A leading independent British School on the French borders require a Chemistry teacher from January, 2024. (theguardian.com)
  • Turkey claims it closed its border for foreign fighters going to Syria and Iraq. (moonofalabama.org)
  • Turkey, which borders Syria and Iraq, is predicted by the UN to have taken in nearly 1.9 million refugees and asylum seekers by the end of 2015. (ibtimes.co.uk)
  • Entry Requirements: Kuwait now issues single-entry visas to American citizens on arrival, upon presentation of a valid passport. (scoop.co.nz)
  • Afghanistan in October, 2001, conjured up almost immediately warnings of quagmire, expanding Holy War at Ramadan, unreliable allies, a trigger-happy nuclear Pakistan on the border, American corpses to join British and Russian bones in the high desert - not a seven-week victory and a subsequent democracy in Kabul of all places. (debatepolitics.com)
  • In return for Tehran halting its support for a Kurdish rebellion in northern Iraq, Saddam conceded the thalweg line as the border. (washingtoninstitute.org)
  • In an attempt to defuse this and other border tensions, the British have placed a senior military "liaison officer" (i.e., not a military attach) in Tehran to deal directly with the Iranian Ministry of Defense. (washingtoninstitute.org)
  • Meanwhile, Roman Starovoit, the governor of Russia's Kursk region that borders Ukraine, said on September 29 that a Ukrainian drone attack on a power substation in the region's Belovsky district left five settlements without electricity. (rferl.org)
  • Sanctions will not achieve what must be our goal: Russian withdrawal, Ukrainian sovereignty, a return to the borders we pledged to uphold in 1994. (blogspot.com)
  • NATO should move invasion forces to the Ukrainian borders. (blogspot.com)
  • Gen. Ra'ad al-Hamdani - Occupation of Kuwait and the Gulf War] (YouTube) (in Arabic). (wikipedia.org)
  • At least two of the four were Scuds- one or two of which were shot down by US Patriot anti-missile batteries, as the sound of explosions heard in Kuwait City set off alarm sirens. (debka.com)
  • KUWAIT CITY, Sept 19: The General Department of Security Relations and Media has announced a significant crackdown on criminal activities aimed at protecting the law and apprehending wrongdoers. (arabtimesonline.com)
  • KUWAIT CITY: Joint Gulf force the Peninsula Shield began a 17-day exercise in Kuwait on Sunday as officials said the war games were not related to unrest in the region. (arabnews.com)
  • KUWAIT CITY: Kuwait is to bar foreigners from attending public hospitals in the mornings, local media reported on Thursday, in a decision activists labelled as "racist. (arabnews.com)
  • State Department has issued worldwide terror alert for US citizens. (debka.com)
  • Al-Mutairi was released in a "special operation" along the Lebanon-Syria border, where the kidnappers held him hostage, a Lebanese military statement said. (jpost.com)
  • One of them says he'd like to bring nuclear weapons to the border. (splcenter.org)
  • Putin is already capitalizing on this fear by placing nuclear forces on alert in response to sanctions. (blogspot.com)
  • Health Advisory for Kuwait: April through October is the hot season in Kuwait. (scoop.co.nz)
  • Operating under a NATO umbrella, the United States could use its naval and air assets in the region to establish a no-fly zone from Aleppo to the Turkish border and make clear that it will prevent the continued bombardment of civilians and refugees by any party, including the Russians. (moonofalabama.org)
  • Set up news alerts on the countries and sectors that matter to you. (gsn-online.com)
  • Both countries have put the particularly thorny issue of border demarcation following UN Resolution 833 and a bilateral agreement signed in 2012 and ratified in 2013. (middleeastobserver.org)
  • The border demarcation between the two countries was finalised by United Nations Resolution 833. (middleeastobserver.org)
  • Each of the GCC countries will be responsible for building and costs of establishing the rail link within its borders, reported Alarabiya News. (middleeasteye.net)
  • If you take cash out in Caanda and take it across the border yourself, YOU have to do the reporting to both countries. (centa.com)
  • Russia has denied it is preparing to invade and accused Western countries of undermining its security by NATO's expansion toward its borders. (turkishpress.com)
  • This is an ideological war devoid of borders, countries, nationality. (wnd.com)
  • These are the nativists -- the new crop of activists who are driving the movement that exploded last spring with the Minuteman Project in Arizona, a month-long effort by armed civilians to seal the border with Mexico. (splcenter.org)
  • The resolution said that the "task was carried out in the special circumstances following Iraq's invasion of Kuwait and pursuant to resolution 687 (1991) and the Secretary-General's report for implementing paragraph three of that resolution. (middleeastobserver.org)
  • If possible, travelers should try to obtain a multiple-entry visa before arriving in Kuwait. (scoop.co.nz)
  • Physicians in the United States must be alert to the diagnosis of leishmaniasis in travelers returning from endemic areas. (aafp.org)
  • Recommended for unvaccinated travelers one year old or older going to Kuwait. (cdc.gov)
  • Recommended for unvaccinated travelers younger than 60 years old traveling to Kuwait. (cdc.gov)
  • Unvaccinated travelers 60 years and older may get vaccinated before traveling to Kuwait. (cdc.gov)
  • The deployment of the security forces at the borders followed calls in Iraq to stage demonstrations to protest the agreement over navigation rights in the estuary signed by Kuwait and Iraq in 2012. (middleeastobserver.org)
  • We have increased security precautions at official U.S. installations in Kuwait and recommend that all Americans in Kuwait remain alert to their surroundings and review their personal security practices. (scoop.co.nz)
  • The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) and the Met Office have jointly issued an amber heat-health alert (HHA) for eight regions in England, including. (turkishpress.com)
  • 1 More information on this can be found at Strengthening health security by implementing the International Health Regulations (2005) ( http://www.who.int/ihr/en/ ). (who.int)
  • It is also worth noting that the original news has been published and is available at Kuwait Times and the editorial team at AlKhaleej Today has confirmed it and it has been modified, and it may have been completely transferred or quoted from it and you can read and follow this news from its main source. (alkhaleejtoday.co)
  • Back in 2007, Kuwait had much more ambitious plans for the Ratqa oil field . (desmog.com)
  • And Kuwait opening its doors to the oil majors depicts the country as an emerging player in the global oil market. (desmog.com)
  • An account also allows you to view selected free articles and set up news alerts. (gsn-online.com)
  • Unless we seek the experience of the industry here, we will not be able to reach our target," Ali al-Shammari, at the time the deputy managing director for finance for the Kuwait Oil Company, told the Calgary Herald . (desmog.com)
  • Kuwait has invited Britain's BP , France's Total, Royal Dutch Shell, ExxonMobil and Chevron, to bid for a so-called enhanced technical service agreement for the northern Ratqa heavy oilfield," explained an October 2 article in Reuters . (desmog.com)
  • We are currently implementing the agreement to regulate navigation between Kuwait and Iraq which was signed in 2012. (middleeastobserver.org)
  • Dotted lines on maps represent approximate border lines for which there may not yet be full agreement. (who.int)