Al-Qurain
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Al-Qurain is a town in Kuwait
in the Mubarak Al-Kabeer Governorate. The name is also an older name of the state of Kuwait.
. While the men were discussing their plan, an Iraqi patrol unit was in the area and eventually checked on one of the three houses in which the resistance group congregated. The two sides then engaged in a ten hour battle. Heavily outnumbered and underarmed, the Kuwaiti men were eventually defeated by Iraqi tanks and soldiers. Of the nineteen men, seven were severely wounded and twelve died as martyrs for their country.
The symbolic thing about this house is that it represented a wide spectrum of people in Kuwait. Some of the resistance fighters were Sunni Muslims, while others were Shiite Muslims. Furthermore, some of them were of non-Arabic (Iranian) origins, while the rest were ethnically Arab.
Kuwait
The State of Kuwait is a sovereign Arab state situated in the north-east of the Arabian Peninsula in Western Asia. It is bordered by Saudi Arabia to the south at Khafji, and Iraq to the north at Basra. It lies on the north-western shore of the Persian Gulf. The name Kuwait is derived from the...
in the Mubarak Al-Kabeer Governorate. The name is also an older name of the state of Kuwait.
Significance during the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait
The suburb is renowned for three neighboring villas of historical significance. They are what make up Al-Qurain Martyrs' Museum. On February 24, 1991, 19 young Kuwaiti men from the "Messila" resistance group had armed themselves and were preparing a strike against the invading Iraqi armyInvasion of Kuwait
The Invasion of Kuwait, also known as the Iraq-Kuwait War, was a major conflict between the Republic of Iraq and the State of Kuwait, which resulted in the seven-month long Iraqi occupation of Kuwait, which subsequently led to direct military intervention by United States-led forces in the Gulf...
. While the men were discussing their plan, an Iraqi patrol unit was in the area and eventually checked on one of the three houses in which the resistance group congregated. The two sides then engaged in a ten hour battle. Heavily outnumbered and underarmed, the Kuwaiti men were eventually defeated by Iraqi tanks and soldiers. Of the nineteen men, seven were severely wounded and twelve died as martyrs for their country.
The symbolic thing about this house is that it represented a wide spectrum of people in Kuwait. Some of the resistance fighters were Sunni Muslims, while others were Shiite Muslims. Furthermore, some of them were of non-Arabic (Iranian) origins, while the rest were ethnically Arab.