Taxes Â» Tax Deductions Â» Mileage Deduction Amounts. Americans love automobiles. The IRS even shares the national motoring madness by annually adjusting most of the standard mileage rates taxpayers can use to claim certain types of road trips as tax deductions.
Kuwaitis celebrate Liberation Day on Feb. 26 to mark the anniversary of the day coalition forces answered that call and drove out Hussein's army during Operation Desert Storm. Soldiers from Camp Arifjan, Kuwait, were invited to celebrate Liberation Day at the Kuwait University in Kuwait City, Feb. 11, and share in a social and cultural exchange during a ceremony to mark the occasion.
1 August 2: About 100,000 Iraqi troops invaded Kuwait, initiating the Gulf War. 2  The U.N. Security Council passed Resolution 661 imposing a trade embargo on Iraq in a 13-0 vote, with Cuba and Yemen abstaining.3  August 7: The United States launched Operation Desert Shield. August 8: Saddam Hussein proclaimed the annexation of Kuwait. 2  August 12: Naval blockade of Iraq begins. 3  August 28: Iraq declared Kuwait as its 19th province and renames Kuwait City as al-Kadhima. 4  September 14: United Kingdom and France announce the deployment of troops to Saudi Arabia.