Permanent historical factsheet

Bombing of Baghdad

Name: Bombing of Baghdad – Iraq factsheet records
Creator: World History Database

Iraq · Warfare / Gulf War, 1st. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

1Records

1991Date range

1Named people

1Places

Chronological records

1991

Saddam Hussein16 January 1991

Baghdad · Warfare / Gulf War, 1st

The USA leads the allied bombing of Baghdad

Names involved

Saddam Hussein

Provenance

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