Kuwait's larger neighbour, Iraq, had issued demands for territory to be surrendered to its control and had been staging a military buildup on the border between the two nations for weeks.
طلب العراق الجار الأكبر للكويت الاستسلام لسيطرته وكان قد حشد جيشه على الحدود بين البلدين لمدة أسابيع.