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The Invasion of Kuwait and annexation by Iraq took place on 2 August 1990.

Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's primary justifications included a charge that Kuwaiti territory was in fact an Iraqi province, and that annexation was retaliation for " economic warfare " Kuwait had waged through slant drilling into Iraq's oil supplies.

However, the initial casus belli was claimed to be support for a Kuwaiti rebellion.

The monarchy was deposed and an Iraqi-backed puppet leader named Alaa Hussein Ali was installed as head of the " Provisional Government of Free Kuwait.

" Iraq annexed Kuwait on 8 August.