"The issue of Iraq and Kuwait is now resolved and we have agreed on a statement between Iraq and Kuwait which is acceptable to the two sides, " Qatari Foreign Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jabr al-Thani told reporters after the first day of summit in Beirut.
KBR, part of Halliburton, has lost 42 employees in Iraq and Kuwait and yet stayed put.
"We wish to reach a brotherly accord and re-establish relations between Iraq and Kuwait, " Mr Ibrahim said.
U.S. President George W. Bush wants the lifting of U.N. trade sanctions on Iraq -- imposed in 1990 after Iraq invaded Kuwait.
Twenty-three countries comprise the Arab League, but only Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and Iran are major oil producers.
During the first Gulf war, for example, Saudi Arabia turned on the taps to compensate for the loss of Iraq and Kuwait's normal output.
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U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said "as many as three or four" oil wells may be burning on the Iraqi side of the Iraq-Kuwait border.
He delivered on-the-ground coverage of the military build up in Iraq and Kuwait in 2003, including embedding with the 1st Battalion of the 7th Marines.
Soon after the Soviet Union fell apart, Iraq invaded Kuwait.
This was the 13th missile launched from Iraq toward Kuwait since the war began, but most have been knocked out of the sky by Patriot missiles.
In 2003, Gupta reported from Iraq and Kuwait as an embedded correspondent with the U.S. Navy's medical unit -- and worked alongside them, performing brain surgery five times.
OPEC's 11 members -- Algeria, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Libya, Nigeria, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and Venezuela -- are heavily reliant on oil export revenues.
"When Iraq invaded Kuwait in August 1990, little did I realize that Saddam Hussein would dictate the next 10 years of my life, " Kelly once said during a lecture.
He joined the Army after attending the University of Texas and still held a major's commission in the reserves when Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990, sparking the Persian Gulf war.
The gathering included the UN Security Council's five permanent members plus Iraq, Kuwait, Qatar and Turkey but not Iran or Saudi Arabia, deemed so antagonistic as to cancel each other out.
Virtually unknown to the public before the Persian Gulf War, Schwarzkopf became a household name while he oversaw the buildup of 700, 000 coalition troops, including more than 540, 000 U.S. forces, after Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990.
Dean -- who until his third-place finish in the Iowa caucuses last week had led in New Hampshire polls -- highlighted Kerry's support of the Iraq war but his opposition to the first conflict, launched in 1991 after Iraq invaded Kuwait.
When America was hunting for a military alliance to force Iraq out of Kuwait, Egypt's president joined without hesitation.
Under Mubarak, Egypt was a major player in Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, and it contributed troops to the U.S.-led coalition that drove Iraq out of Kuwait in 1991.
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And they have liberated Kuwait from Iraq in 1991 in only a couple of weeks.
W. Bush picked Cheney as Defense secretary, and he helped lead Operation Desert Storm in Kuwait and Iraq in 1991.
Asiacell is one of three major Iraqi telecom companies, along with Zain Iraq, part of Kuwait's Zain, and Korek, an affiliate of France Telecom.
Kuwait and Iraq have ended a 14-year hiatus in diplomatic relations.
In another U.S. troop movement, the first elements of the 4th Infantry Division are expected to begin moving from Kuwait into Iraq within a few days.
Powell questioned whether the loss of American lives was worth liberating Kuwait from Iraq, opposed overthrowing Saddam Hussein and was critical of U.S. policy in Somalia and Bosnia.
When Iraq invaded and annexed Kuwait in August 1990, Bush built a powerful coalition through the United Nations Security Council to drive Saddam Hussein's forces out of the Gulf kingdom.
Only a small fraction of Americans had ever heard of Kuwait before Iraq invaded it in 1990, yet the U.S. sent hundreds of thousands of troops to liberate the sheikhdom.
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