Iran-Iraq War
Eighties Gulf bloodshed
The Iran-Iraq War was a conflict between Iran and Iraq from 1980 to 1988, initiated when Iraq invaded Iran following the Iranian Revolution.
One of the deadliest conventional wars of the late twentieth century, it featured trench warfare, chemical weapons, and attacks on oil tankers.
The war ended in stalemate with over a million casualties.
- hostilitiesActive armed fighting
- 1980sFourth-to-last twentieth-century decade
- warfareArmed conflict between groups
- Persian GulfInlet between Iran and Arabia
- arms embargoBan on military exports
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1991 Kuwait liberation
Operation Desert Storm · Iraq War · Six-Day War · Yom Kippur War · Falklands War
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