Era of Ancient Greece. 1  1200 BC Trojan War (believed by many historians to be a mythical event) 2  499 - 479 BC Persian Wars (also called Greco-Persian Wars) 3  431 - 404 BC Peloponnesian War.  334 - 323 BC Wars of Alexander the 1  Great. 300s BC Samnite Wars between Rome and Samnium.
Causes of the conflict. Two Iraqi tanks lie abandoned near Kuwait City on February 26, 1991. Kuwait was a close ally of Iraq during the Iraq-Iran war and functioned as the countryâs major port once Basra was shut down by the fighting.
Iraqâs invasion of Kuwait in 1990 ended in Iraqâs defeat by a U.S.-led coalition in the Persian Gulf War (1990â91). However, the Iraqi branch of the BaÊ¿th Party, headed by á¹¢addÄm á¸¤ussein, managed to retain power by harshly suppressing uprisings of the countryâs minority Kurds and its majority ShÄ«Ê¿ite Arabs.