brief history
Ancient History. Kuwait was before Islam and after roaming the area for a large number of Arab tribes. Arabs were beaten tents where several months in the oases when rainfall and pasture growth season starts, and after the end of the grazing period return from where they came. Kuwait was included in the scope of the so-called Bahrain at the advent of Islam, so Islam also means Islam Bahrain Kuwait.
A great battle took place on the territory of Kuwait at the beginning of the Islamic occupation during the reign of Caliph Abu Bakr, may Allah be pleased with him between Muslims led by Khaled Ibn al-Walid and the Persians under the leadership of Hormuz, the victory was the ally of the Muslims. The Muslims took Kuwait during the reign of Caliph Omar ibn al-Khattab springboard to the southern coasts of Persia base. Thus Islam was introduced to Kuwait and spread toward the east to Iran.
Kuwait, the country's capital city, which blocked by smoke from fires in oil wells as a result of the Gulf War, which ended in 1991. It was set on fire in hundreds of wells in Kuwait by the end of the war.
Britain and Kuwait. It was not in Kuwait in 1700 by only a limited number of sedentary population. Individuals have settled the thighs Arab tribes Goat on the southern shore of the Gulf of Kuwait about a year in 1710 m, where they discovered pure water. It is estimated that they have left their country of origin in the Arabian Peninsula to avoid drought and severe drought. Members of this tribe has built a fortress called Kut name, and then the small name to Kuwait.
This tribe has chosen between 1756 and 1762 as leader of the al-Sabah family and called "the first morning." It is Sheikh Sabah bin Jaber bin Salman. It is said that he was chosen because of the leadership that was enjoyed by his father among his people before arriving in the region. Sheikh Sabah was ruled from 1752 m to 1762 m.
Kuwait has made the British since 1775 starting point for their services mailing desert to Aleppo in Syria, and this was the road is part of the roads that carry goods and messages from India to England network. And increased British interest in Kuwait over the years.
Sheikh Mubarak Al-Sabah held in 1899, a treaty with the United Kingdom in Kuwait are under British protection against the Kuwait vowed not to cooperate with one without reference to Britain. Britain has been recognized in 1914 in Kuwait, an independent state under British protection.
Search for oil. Kuwait's ruler granted in 1934 a concession to the Kuwait Oil Company (an American British company) to explore for oil. Drilling began in 1936, and explained that there are large quantities of oil down the desert of Kuwait. Kuwait has become a major supplier of oil after the end of World War II in 1945. Because of production and oil revenues Kuwait was transformed from a poor country to a rich country.
Independence. He confirmed the agreement June 19, 1961 of Kuwait's independence and sovereignty, and Britain recognized the responsibility of the Kuwaiti government for the management of internal and external affairs, with the British government agreed to help Kuwait if so requested. Following the independence of Kuwait joined the Arab League membership in 1961, and became a member of the United Nations in 1963.
Gulf War. The many battles in the early eighties of the twentieth century between Iraq and Iran in the Persian Gulf. In 1986 Iran launched intensive attacks on Kuwaiti oil tankers in the Persian Gulf under the pretext of aid from Kuwait to Iraq, whether financial or non-financial. Kuwait has demanded that in 1987 both the United States and the Soviet Union (the former) to provide security for its ships, the Soviet Union sent to Kuwait ships chartered by carrying the Soviet flag, and was re-recorded many of Kuwaiti tankers as carriers of the United States of America and carried the flags of the United States, and ships started US warships in the escort Kuwaiti tankers to protect them in the Arabian Gulf. Some clashes between US forces and the Iranian forces because it has taken place. These collisions were halted in August 1988 after they both Iraq and Iran have agreed to a ceasefire.
On the second of August 1990, the Iraqi regime forces invaded and occupied Kuwait. Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, Kuwait has been accused of violating the limits of oil production set by OPEC; causing a drop in oil prices in international markets. Also it claimed that Kuwait is part of Iraq legally, announced that his country had annexed as a province of Iraq. This United Nations has refused to developments and announced that Iraq's annexation of Kuwait null and void and has no basis of truth and law.
After the occupation of the Iraqi regime forces of Kuwait, the leadership of Saudi Arabia considers that there is an imminent threat to the security and sovereignty so friendly forces summoned to help in the defense of its territory assignments. Posted United States armed forces to Saudi Arabia, and formed with other countries in the region and European and Asian countries military alliance to face the prospect of the Iraqi intervention in Saudi Arabia and the liberation of Kuwait. The United Nations has agreed in November 1990 on the use of military force to expel Iraqi forces from Kuwait if it is exiting, no later than January 15, 1991 AD. But the Iraqi regime's refusal to withdraw from Kuwait. The war began between the allied forces and Iraq. Allied forces have struck Iraqi military targets, as allied ground forces entered Kuwaiti territory in February of the same year was the liberation of Kuwait. After liberation has the reconstruction of the country.