No-Fly Zones Over Iraq Washington's Undeclared War on "Saddam's Victiims" ...

The nature of the threat faced by Iraqi Kurdistan today is significantly different than the one of that time.

The southern no-fly zone, covering a vast swath of Iraq below the 33rd parallel, was established to protect Shiite Muslims in the south from Hussein’s military.

But the "no-fly" zones pose one of the more complicated questions arising from the new measure. Neither it, nor any previous resolution on Iraq, explicitly mentions the patrols.

U.S. and British warplanes have bombed more than 80 targets in Iraq's southern "no-fly" zone over the past five months, conducting an escalating air war even as U.N. weapons inspections proceed ...

“The no-fly zone had a limited effect on Saddam’s ability to hurt the Shiites,” Haider Mansour, a teacher from the Shiite-dominated city of Basra in Iraq’s south, said Saturday.

The no-fly zones were established at the end of the 1991 Gulf War to protect Iraq's Shiite minority in the south and its Kurdish minority in the north.

Untrue. In March 1995, Republican Guard armored and infantry divisions rolled into the northern Iraqi no-fly zone, and crushed a failed Kurdish uprising in one week.

Iraq seen as case for and against Syria no-fly zone Patrols over southern Iraq did little to keep Saddam from slaughtering Shiites in 1990s ...

The Iraqi no-fly zone came after that nation’s air force, defenses and command and control were all but wiped out — a situation that doesn’t exist in Ukraine.

He also continued the no-fly zone in northern Iraq, changing only the name (from Provide Comfort III to Northern Watch). President Clinton continued to lean even more heavily on airpower as a coercive ...

Iraq considers the no-fly zones to be illegal and has often tried to shoot down allied planes. Tuesday's firing was the eighth such incident in the northern no-fly zone since Jan. 1.