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Category: War, from Wikidata’s class “military operation”

Operation Provide Comfort

March 1991 – 1996 · Iraq

Part of: Iraqi no-fly zones conflict Wikidata

Wikidata classes on our event-class list: military operation (all its classes: Wikidata item)

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Operation Provide Comfort and Provide Comfort II were military operations initiated by the United States and other Coalition nations of the Persian Gulf War, starting in April 1991, to defend Kurdish refugees fleeing their homes in northern Iraq in the aftermath of the Gulf War, and to deliver humanitarian aid to them. The no-fly zone instituted to help bring this about would become one of the main factors allowing the development of the autonomous Kurdistan Region.

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