Warbah Island
Warbah Island (Template:Langx) is an island belonging to Kuwait, located in the Persian Gulf, near the mouth of the Euphrates River. It is located roughly Script error: No such module "convert". east of the Kuwaiti mainland, Script error: No such module "convert". north of Bubiyan Island, and Script error: No such module "convert". south of the Iraqi mainland. It is roughly Script error: No such module "convert". long and Script error: No such module "convert". wide with a total area of Script error: No such module "convert"..
History
Iraq claimed the island in the 1970s and 1980s. In November 1994, Iraq formally accepted the UN-demarcated border with Kuwait which had been spelled out in Security Council Resolutions 687 (1991), 773 (1993), and 833 (1993) which formally ended Iraq's earlier claim to Warbah Island.[1]
Near the island in early December 2002, in the lead-up to the invasion of Iraq, an Iraqi ship opened fire on two Kuwaiti coastguard patrol boats, causing them to collide. A US serviceman and two Kuwaiti coastguards were injured in the attack, no mention was made of the reason for the US serviceman's presence on a Kuwaiti vessel.[2][3]
The island currently has no permanent inhabitants although Kuwait maintains a coastguard post, named M-1 on the island which is partially funded by the United Nations.[4]
References
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