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On January 17, after negotiation, threats, and economic sanctions had failed to make Iraqi President Saddam Hussein undo his 1990 invasion of Kuwait, the United States and its allies launched a major air assault on Iraq. The sustained bombing heavily damaged Iraq's infrastructure as well as taking many lives. A ground campaign begun on February 24 added to the Iraqi death toll, which was estimated by some U.S. government officials to be between 100,000 and 200,000 soldiers. (Estimates of civilian casualties were almost impossible to come by.) Fighting ended on February 28, with Iraq driven out of Kuwait. Immediately afterward, President Saddam Hussein had to deal with internal rebellions by Shiite Muslims in the south and Kurds in the north. The massive destruction, shortages of food, clean water, and other civilian needs, ongoing political turmoil, war reparations obligations, and continued poor relations with many of the countries it had fought left Iraq in a state of social and economic devastation throughout 1991.
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