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Operation Provide Comfort

BelligerentsUnited StatesPeshmergaUnited KingdomGermanyFranceAustraliaNetherlandsTurkeyItalySpainPortugalIraqSupport:BelarusCommanders and leadersJohn ShalikashviliSaddam HusseinCasualties and losses2 UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters downed by friendly fire with 26 killed5 US servicemen killed and 25 wounded3 UK servicemen wounded2 Dutch servicemen wounded Total: 31 killed, 30 wounded 90 killed, 85 woundedMany air defense systems destroyed1 MiG-23 Flogger shot down1–2 Su-22 Fitters shot downOperation Provide Comfort and Provide Comfort II were military operations initiated by the United States and other Coalition nations of the Persian Gulf War, starting in April 1991, to defend Kurdish refugees fleeing their homes in northern Iraq in the aftermath of the Gulf War, and to deliver humanitarian aid to them.

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