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Foreign and Domestic Wars Against Terror

Timeline
August 2, 1990 - Saddam Hussein orderd invasion of Kuwait
February 28, 1991 - Cease Fire called by George H.W. Bush
1998 - Congress passes Iraq Liberation Act giving nearly $100 million to groups attemping to overthrow Suddam Hussein
October 12, 2000 - Terrorist attack on the USS Cole in Yemen
September 11, 2001 - Terrorists attacked America
March 2003 - Iraq war, the second Gulf War, began
2004 - The North-West Pakistani War begins
2004- al Qaeda is formed
2006- ISIS breaks off from al Qaeda and forms its own terror group
2011- US troops pull out of Iran and the country goes into chaos
February, 2015- Barack Obama asks Congress to formally authorize use of military force against ISIS



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