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Sheikh Sabah: Kuwait's peacemaking ruler remembered for role in Iraq war

FRANCE24, 29 Sep 2020
Kuwait’s leader Emir Sheikh Sabah, who died on Tuesday, was foreign minister during the country’s invasion by Iraq. FRANCE 24 correspondent Jack Hewson says the emir was a peacemaker and staunch ally of the United States, the two countries maintaining close ties during and in the wake of the Iraq war in 1991.

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