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The Highway of Death (Arabic: طريق الموت ṭarīq al-mawt) is a six-lane highway between Kuwait and Iraq, officially known as Highway 80. It runs from Kuwait City to the border town of Safwan in Iraq and then on to the Iraqi city of Basra. The road was used by Iraqi armored divisions for the 1990 invasion of Kuwait.
A September 14, 2007, estimate by Opinion Research Business (ORB), an independent British polling agency, suggested that the total Iraqi violent death toll due to the Iraq War since the U.S.-led invasion was in excess of 1.2 million (1,220,580). These results were based on a survey of 1,499 adults in Iraq from August 12–19, 2007.
Robert Kagan ( / ˈkeɪɡən /; born September 26, 1958) is an American columnist and political scientist. He is a neoconservative [ 1] scholar. He is a critic of U.S. foreign policy and a leading advocate of liberal interventionism. [ 2][ 3] A co-founder of the neoconservative Project for the New American Century, [ 4][ 5][ 6] he is a senior ...
The most popular cable network in the United States for news on the war was Fox News, and had begun influencing other media outlets' coverage. [ 1] At the time, Fox News was owned by Rupert Murdoch, a strong supporter of the war. [ 2] On-screen during all live war coverage by Fox News was a waving flag animation in the upper left corner and the ...
During the Iraq War, 179 British service personnel and at least three UK Government civilian staff died. [1] Many more were wounded. Of the more than 183 fatalities, 138 personnel were classified as having been killed in hostile circumstances, with the remaining 44 losing their lives as a result of illness, accidents/friendly fire, or suicide.
The Iraq Body Count project questioned the Lancet study's death certificate findings saying the Lancet study authors "would imply that officials in Iraq have issued approximately 550,000 death certificates for violent deaths (92% of 601,000). Yet in June 2006, the total figure of post-war violent deaths known to the Iraqi Ministry of Health ...
ORB survey of Iraq War casualties. On Friday, 14 September 2007, ORB International, an independent polling agency located in London, published estimates of the total war casualties in Iraq since the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003. [1] At over 1.2 million deaths (1,220,580), this estimate is the highest number published so far.
The Iraq War ( Arabic: حرب العراق, romanized : ḥarb al-ʿirāq ), sometimes called the Second Gulf War[ 82][ 83] was a protracted armed conflict in Iraq from 2003 to 2011. It began with the invasion of Iraq by the United States-led coalition that overthrew the Ba'athist government of Saddam Hussein.