Kuwait City: Kuwaiti authorities report 311 still missing from the Iraqi invasion 34 years ago. Kuwait repatriates 294 remains from Iraq, with investigations ongoing in four sites: Samawah, Karbala, Ramadi, and Amarah.
Fayez Al-Anzi, the head of the "Kuwaiti Association of Martyrs, Prisoners, and Missing Persons," informed the local newspaper Al-Anbaa that Kuwait has successfully repatriated the remains of 294 individuals from Iraq. Nonetheless, 311 people are still missing, including some who are not Kuwaiti.
Al-Anzi detailed that the association, founded in 1998, originally concentrated on collecting information to determine the fate of Kuwaiti prisoners. After the fall of the Iraqi regime, the association shifted its focus to locating the remains of Kuwaiti martyrs and missing persons in Iraq. They identified and investigated four sites in Iraq—Samawah, Karbala, Ramadi, and Amarah—where the remains were recovered.
On August 2, 1990, the Iraqi army invaded and annexed Kuwait, which is rich in oil. It took approximately seven months for an international coalition led by the United States to expel the Iraqi forces. Following the invasion, Iraq endured a 13-year economic blockade and was required to pay significant war reparations to Kuwait. By 2021, Iraq had fully settled these reparations, which amounted to over $52 billion.
