<Ul> <Li> 9 January : United States Secretary of State James Baker meets Foreign Minister of Iraq Tariq Aziz at the Geneva Conference in Hotel InterContinental without any solution . </Li> <Li> January 12 : U.S. Congress passed a joint resolution authorizing the use of military force in Iraq and Kuwait . The votes were ' 52 for and 47 against in the U.S. Senate and 250 - 183 in the House of Representatives . These was the closest margins in authorizing force by the Congress since the War of 1812 . </Li> <Li> 12 January : United Nations Secretary - General Javier Pérez de Cuéllar meets Saddam Hussein in Baghdad without any agreement with the Government of Iraq on withdrawing from Kuwait . </Li> <Li> 12 January : Soviet special envoy Yevgeny Primakov meets Saddam Hussein in Baghdad about the possible Coalition invasion of Kuwait </Li> <Li> 15 January : Saddam Hussein announces that Iraq will consider withdrawing its troops from Kuwait under some conditions </Li> <Li> 15 January : 580,000 Coalition troops are stationed in the Gulf region against 540,000 Iraqi troops . </Li> <Li> 15 January : First U.S. government statement of Operation Desert Storm made . </Li> <Li> 15 January : Iraq ignores all the UN resolutions </Li> <Li> January 16 : Coalition forces lead by the U.S. start deploying into Kuwait through the Persian Gulf and the Saudi Arabian border , starting the first official infantry combat </Li> <Li> 17 January : Foreign Minister of Iraq Tariq Aziz meets President of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev in Moscow where they discuss the Soviet peace plan </Li> <Li> 17 January : Operation Desert Storm is launched . First air attacks are launched on Iraq and Kuwait . </Li> <Li> 18 January : 01 : 00 GMT ; Iraq fires 12 scud missiles at Israeli cities of Haifa and Tel Aviv , killing 12 people . United States tells Israel not to retaliate to the scud attack due to the risk of expanding the war and breaking up of the Arab Coalition . The U.S. deploys Patriot missiles to Israel and Saudi Arabia . </Li> <Li> 21 January : Foreign Minister of Iraq Tariq Aziz accepts the Soviet peace plan . President Bush refuses the peace plan as unrealistic for the coalition . </Li> <Li> 22 January : Iraq burns Kuwaiti oil fields . About 600 oil fields are on fire </Li> <Li> 24 January : Iraq continues to burn Kuwaiti oil fields and dumps the oil into the Persian Gulf </Li> <Li> 24 January : Coalition forces capture the small Kuwaiti island of Qaruh . </Li> <Li> 25 January : Iraqi troops dumped millions of gallons of crude oil into the Persian Gulf . </Li> <Li> 29 January : United States and the Soviet Union offer a ceasefire to Iraq if it withdraws all its troops from Kuwait . </Li> <Li> 29 January : Iraqi forces invaded the town of Khafji in Saudi Arabia . Iraqi forces were soon engaged by Saudi Arabian and Qatari troops with help from U.S. Marines . </Li> <Li> 30 January : Coalition starts its first land operations in Kuwait and Southern Iraq . </Li> <Li> 1 February : Iraqi forces are driven out of Saudi Arabia . </Li> <Li> 22 February : U.S. President George H.W. Bush issues a 24 - hour ultimatum : Iraq must withdraw from Kuwait to avoid start of a ground war . </Li> <Li> 23 February : President of the United States George H.W. Bush calls on Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait before starting Operation Desert Storm </Li> <Li> 24 February : Ground war begins when U.S. - led Coalition forces invaded Iraq and Kuwait at around 4 a.m. Baghdad time . British Special Air Service was the first to enter Iraqi territory . </Li> <Li> 25 February : 20 000 Iraqi troops surrender to the coalition . By the end of February , about 100 000 Iraqi troops will have surrendered . </Li> <Li> 25 February : Iraq launches scud missile attacks to Dhahran in Saudi Arabia which kills 28 American troops and injures 98 civilians . </Li> <Li> 26 February : President of Iraq Saddam Hussein announces at Radio Baghdad report that Iraq will withdraw from Kuwait totally and excepts the UN resolution . Saddam still does not renounce Iraqi claims over Kuwait . </Li> <Li> 26 February : About 10,000 retreating Iraqi troops were killed when Coalition aircraft bombed their stolen civilian and military vehicles . This is called the Highway of Death . </Li> <Li> 26 February : Iraqi troops flees from Kuwait City </Li> <Li> 27 February : U.S. Marines and Saudi Arabian troops entered Kuwait City . </Li> <Li> 27 February : President Bush announced that the Liberation of
<Ul> <Li> 9 January : United States Secretary of State James Baker meets Foreign Minister of Iraq Tariq Aziz at the Geneva Conference in Hotel InterContinental without any solution . </Li> <Li> January 12 : U.S. Congress passed a joint resolution authorizing the use of military force in Iraq and Kuwait . The votes were ' 52 for and 47 against in the U.S. Senate and 250 - 183 in the House of Representatives . These was the closest margins in authorizing force by the Congress since the War of 1812 . </Li> <Li> 12 January : United Nations Secretary - General Javier Pérez de Cuéllar meets Saddam Hussein in Baghdad without any agreement with the Government of Iraq on withdrawing from Kuwait . </Li> <Li> 12 January : Soviet special envoy Yevgeny Primakov meets Saddam Hussein in Baghdad about the possible Coalition invasion of Kuwait </Li> <Li> 15 January : Saddam Hussein announces that Iraq will consider withdrawing its troops from Kuwait under some conditions </Li> <Li> 15 January : 580,000 Coalition troops are stationed in the Gulf region against 540,000 Iraqi troops . </Li> <Li> 15 January : First U.S. government statement of Operation Desert Storm made . </Li> <Li> 15 January : Iraq ignores all the UN resolutions </Li> <Li> January 16 : Coalition forces lead by the U.S. start deploying into Kuwait through the Persian Gulf and the Saudi Arabian border , starting the first official infantry combat </Li> <Li> 17 January : Foreign Minister of Iraq Tariq Aziz meets President of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev in Moscow where they discuss the Soviet peace plan </Li> <Li> 17 January : Operation Desert Storm is launched . First air attacks are launched on Iraq and Kuwait . </Li> <Li> 18 January : 01 : 00 GMT ; Iraq fires 12 scud missiles at Israeli cities of Haifa and Tel Aviv , killing 12 people . United States tells Israel not to retaliate to the scud attack due to the risk of expanding the war and breaking up of the Arab Coalition . The U.S. deploys Patriot missiles to Israel and Saudi Arabia . </Li> <Li> 21 January : Foreign Minister of Iraq Tariq Aziz accepts the Soviet peace plan . President Bush refuses the peace plan as unrealistic for the coalition . </Li> <Li> 22 January : Iraq burns Kuwaiti oil fields . About 600 oil fields are on fire </Li> <Li> 24 January : Iraq continues to burn Kuwaiti oil fields and dumps the oil into the Persian Gulf </Li> <Li> 24 January : Coalition forces capture the small Kuwaiti island of Qaruh . </Li> <Li> 25 January : Iraqi troops dumped millions of gallons of crude oil into the Persian Gulf . </Li> <Li> 29 January : United States and the Soviet Union offer a ceasefire to Iraq if it withdraws all its troops from Kuwait . </Li> <Li> 29 January : Iraqi forces invaded the town of Khafji in Saudi Arabia . Iraqi forces were soon engaged by Saudi Arabian and Qatari troops with help from U.S. Marines . </Li> <Li> 30 January : Coalition starts its first land operations in Kuwait and Southern Iraq . </Li> <Li> 1 February : Iraqi forces are driven out of Saudi Arabia . </Li> <Li> 22 February : U.S. President George H.W. Bush issues a 24 - hour ultimatum : Iraq must withdraw from Kuwait to avoid start of a ground war . </Li> <Li> 23 February : President of the United States George H.W. Bush calls on Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait before starting Operation Desert Storm </Li> <Li> 24 February : Ground war begins when U.S. - led Coalition forces invaded Iraq and Kuwait at around 4 a.m. Baghdad time . British Special Air Service was the first to enter Iraqi territory . </Li> <Li> 25 February : 20 000 Iraqi troops surrender to the coalition . By the end of February , about 100 000 Iraqi troops will have surrendered . </Li> <Li> 25 February : Iraq launches scud missile attacks to Dhahran in Saudi Arabia which kills 28 American troops and injures 98 civilians . </Li> <Li> 26 February : President of Iraq Saddam Hussein announces at Radio Baghdad report that Iraq will withdraw from Kuwait totally and excepts the UN resolution . Saddam still does not renounce Iraqi claims over Kuwait . </Li> <Li> 26 February : About 10,000 retreating Iraqi troops were killed when Coalition aircraft bombed their stolen civilian and military vehicles . This is called the Highway of Death . </Li> <Li> 26 February : Iraqi troops flees from Kuwait City </Li> <Li> 27 February : U.S. Marines and Saudi Arabian troops entered Kuwait City . </Li> <Li> 27 February : President Bush announced that the Liberation of
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