✦ History

Part of Gulf War

Battle of Khafji

January 29 – February 1, 1991 · Khafji, Saudi Arabia

Result Coalition victory

Iraqi forces seized the Saudi border town of Khafji, the only major Iraqi ground attack of the war. Saudi and Qatari troops with US air and Marine support retook it.

On the map Contemporaries

Iraq

Coalition

Iraq
Saudi Arabia
United States
Qatar
Kuwait
Saddam Hussein military commander Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri military commander Salah Aboud Mahmoud military commander
Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah military commander Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani belligerent leader Fahd bin Abdulaziz Al Saud military commander Khalid bin Sultan military commander

Strength and losses

Killed
71 disputed
Wounded
148
Captured
400
Missing
702
Vehicles lost
186 disputed
Killed
45
Wounded
60
Captured
2
Aircraft lost
1
Vehicles lost
9–12

Units

Iraqi Republican Guard Iraqi army in Kuwait (1990–1991) 1st Division (Iraq) 3rd Division (Iraq) 5th Division (Iraq) 6th Division (Iraq)
Saudi Arabian National Guard I Marine Expeditionary Force Joint Forces Command – East (Gulf War) 1st Marine Division 2nd Marine Division Royal Saudi Marine Forces 2nd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion Royal Saudi Air Force