A look at the two no-fly zones that the United States and its Gulf War allies imposed on Iraq:
SOUTHERN NO-FLY ZONE: Imposed by U.S., British and French forces in August 1992 to protect Shiite Muslim Iraqis. President Saddam Hussein's forces had crushed a Shiite uprising soon after the end of the Gulf War in February 1991. In 1996, President Clinton extended the zone in response to Saddam's military intervention in northern Iraq in support of one Kurdish faction against another. The zone now covers the southern third of Iraq, reaching the 33rd parallel, and touches the outskirts of Baghdad.
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NORTHERN NO-FLY ZONE: In April 1991, the United States, France and Britain declared a 19,000-square-mile area of northern Iraq a haven for Kurds and imposed a no-fly zone above the 36th parallel. U.S. and British warplanes still patrol the skies of northern Iraq. France withdrew from the mission in 1996.
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