In pictures: Desert Storm

Ten years after the Gulf War, BBC News Online looks back at images from the conflict:

A Kuwaiti soldier with a machine gun stands silhouetted on the skyline

British Army soldiers are given injections against the effects of a possible chemical atteck

British and US forces prepare to launch laser-guided bombs on Iraq

A US soldier examines the wreckage of a missile, believed to be a Scud, which landed in Saudi Arabia

A cow stands in front of burning oil wells, set alight by retreating Iraqi forces in the al-Ahmadi oil fields near Kuwait City

French soldiers patrol under a mural of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein in Southern Iraq

An Egyptian soldier guards Iraqi prisoners in the Kuwaiti desert

A Kuwaiti raises his arms in celebration as Allied forces arrive in Kuwait City

Saddam Hussein speaks on television for the first time after Iraq's defeat

Kuwait City celebrates after the liberation

New Yorkers celebrate the end of the Gulf War