The two no-fly zones, named Operation Northern Watch and Operation Southern Watch sought to prevent Saddam Hussein from using the Iraqi air force from targeting Kurds or Shiites and hold Iraq to ...

And if a government attempts to oppose the “no-fly zone,” that becomes part of the justification for toppling the regime all together as we saw during the debate over the invasion of Iraq.

The most the Kurds got was a no-fly zone, in 1991, over the northern third of Iraq, where the vast majority of Kurds live, following the first Gulf War, and enforced by the US, Great Britain and F ...

The US has established no-fly zones in the past “but unlike previous instances in Iraq, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Libya, which involved containing small and out-dated air forces, Russia has ...

But they are costly, requiring constant air patrolling and monitoring. From 1991 to 2003 the US, France and Britain enforced no-fly zones over Iraq in the wake of the 1991 Gulf War, to protect Shiite ...

said Nato cannot impose a no-fly zone as this could lead to a "third world war". General Sir Adrian Bradshaw told the BBC's Today programme the conflict was not like the 2003 invasion of Iraq.