Kuwait Liberation Medal | |
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Type | Five class award |
Awarded for | Campaign service |
Presented by | the State of Kuwait |
Eligibility | Military personnel who served during 1990 and 1991 in the Liberation of Kuwait |
Campaign(s) | Gulf War |
Status | No longer awarded |
First awarded | 1994 (retroactive to 1990) |
The Kuwait Liberation Medal (Arabic: وسام التحرير Wisām al-Taḥrīr, English: Liberation Medal, lit. 'Medal of Liberation') is a medal created in 1994 that was issued by the government of Kuwait to both local and foreign military personnel who served in the Gulf War's "Liberation of Kuwait" campaign phase of 1990 and 31 August 1993.[1]