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Conflicts in the Gulf, Afghanistan and Iraq

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Britain played a leading role in coalition forces that liberated Kuwait after Iraq invaded it in 1990. Since 2000, British armed forces have taken part in the fight against international terrorism and the spread of weapons of mass destruction, including operations in Afghanistan and Iraq. British combat troops left Iraq in 2009.

Memory tip: 1990 Iraq invades Kuwait; Britain joins coalitions; later operations in Afghanistan and Iraq.

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Britain helped liberate which country after it was invaded by Iraq in 1990?

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