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| 1982 |
| | Hezbollah emerges in Lebanon as an Iranian-sponsored resistance movement against the Israeli occupation of the southern part of the country | |
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| 1985 |
| | President Reagan's administration breaks a US embargo with secret arms sales to Iran in return for assistance in the release of US hostages in Lebanon | |
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| 1987 |
| | An Intifada begins against Israeli occupation of Palestinian land | |
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| 1987 |
| | Hamas (acronym in Arabic for 'Movement for Islamic Resistance') is founded in the occupied territories to lead armed resistance against Israel | |
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| 1988 |
| | Yasser Arafat, leader of the PLO, declares that the organization renounces 'terrorism in all its forms' | |
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| 1988 |
| | The Iran-Iraq war ends with the border between the countries unchanged and more than a million dead | |
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| 1988 |
| | Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein uses chemical weapons against the Kurds of northern Iraq | |
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| 1990 |
| | Iraqi troops cross the border into Kuwait and are soon in control of the whole country and its oil wells | |
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| 1990 |
| | Saddam Hussein announces the annexation of Kuwait, claiming it to have been historically part of Iraq | |
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| 1991 |
| | The Gulf War begins when Iraq fails to meet the UN deadline for withdrawal from Kuwait | |
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