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.
The Invasion of Kuwait began on August 2, 1990 when Baâathist-controlled Iraq moved troops into the Emirate of Kuwait. Two days after the Iraqi occupation began, the Kuwait Armed Forces were defeated and Saddam Hussein, the President of Iraq at that time, declared Kuwait as the 19th Province of Iraq. The conflict lasted for seven months. Iraq-Kuwait Relations Before the Invasion. Kuwait became an independent nation in 1961, a move that the Iraqi government did not support.