Failaka Island (Arabic: فيلكا Faylakah / Fēlaka; Kuwaiti Arabic: فيلچا /fe:lɪt͡ʃə/) is a Kuwaiti Island in the Persian Gulf. The island is 20 km off the...

The Battle of Failaka broke out between the Kuwaiti garrison of Failaka Island and attacking Iraqi forces during the Iraqi Invasion of Kuwait, on 2 August...

Ikaros (Greek: Ἴκαρος) was the Hellenistic name for what is now the Failaka Island of Kuwait. It is located 50 kilometres (31 mi) southeast of the spot...

first settled in the Kuwaiti island of Failaka in 2000 B.C. Traders from the Sumerian city of Ur inhabited Failaka and ran a mercantile business. The island...

first settled in the Kuwaiti island of Failaka in 2000 BC. Traders from the Sumerian city of Ur inhabited Failaka and ran a mercantile business. The island...

in the district of Mishref. It was established on 28 February 1965 in Failaka Island and was the only Kuwaiti club established outside mainland Kuwait...

September 11 attacks of 2001. The Marines were on a training exercise on Failaka Island, an island off the coast of Kuwait. One U.S. Marine was killed and...

dating from that time until after the advent of Islam in the region at Failaka Island, Kharg Island, Jubail, and the nearby settlements of Thaj, al-Hinnah...

identified with Kuwait's Failaka Island, known as ´KR to the Arameans and as Ikaros during the Hellenistic times. Failaka's Ekara temple is another probable...

The Islamic Legion (Arabic: الفيلق الإسلامي al-Faylaq ul-'Islāmiyyu; a.k.a. Islamic Pan-African Legion) was a Libyan-sponsored pan-Arabist and pan-Islamist...

control of the bay of Kuwait included mainland Akkaz, Umm an Namil, and Failaka. At its peak in 2000 BC, the Dilmun empire controlled the trade routes...

evidence for increased building activity. A seal from this period found at Failaka preserved a king's name. The short text reads, [La]'ù-la Panipa, daughter...

and 800 meters wide (area about 0.75 km2). The distance between it and Failaka Island, which lies to the south, is approximately 3.2 kilometers. The distance...

the core areas of Kuwait City and several offshore islands, among them Failaka Island. The Mubarak Al-Kabeer governorate (Arabic: مبارك الكبير, romanized: Mubārak...

keep US Marines from coming ashore (Missouri and Wisconsin had shelled Failaka Island during the war to reinforce the idea that there would be an amphibious...

who might have fulfilled this role was dPA.NI.PA, known from texts from Failaka Island. Evidence of the worship of Inzak is also available from Mesopotamia...

civilizations, the current scholarly consensus is that Dilmun encompassed Bahrain, Failaka Island and the adjacent coast of Eastern Arabia in the Persian Gulf. In...

"middlemen merchants from Dilmun" (modern Bahrain, Eastern Arabia and Failaka located in the Persian Gulf). Such long-distance sea trade became feasible...

Failaka Island ruins...

(including Seleucid), and the Bronze Age. Akkaz Island Failaka Island H3 (Kuwait) Bahra 1 Ikaros (Failaka Island) Kazma Agarum Subiya, Kuwait List of lighthouses...

the Early Classical period. Ikaros island in the Persian Gulf (modern Failaka Island): There was a temple of Apollo on the island. Argos in Cyprus: there...

Archias was despatched with a galley of 30 oars, and reached the island of Failaka (Kuwait) and Tylos (Bahrain group). Tylos, Archias reported, was "about...

can also be related to the discovery of a church with a fine cross at Failaka, in Kuwait, in 1990 by Vincent Bernard and JF Salles. Their stucco crosses...

without criticism, however, and other sources place Agarum on the isle of Failaka. Eastern Arabia was conquered by the emerging Rashidun Caliphate during...

Gades offered sacrifices. At the Ikaros island in the Persian Gulf (modern Failaka Island in Kuwait), there was an oracle of Artemis Tauropolus. At Claros...

Japanese satellite Ikaros (island), an island in the Aegean Sea Ikaros (Failaka Island), an ancient Greek city in the Persian Gulf Ikaros (mythology),...

Prehistoric and ancient Mesopotamia Bahra 1 H3 (Kuwait) Subiya Ubaid period Failaka Island Dilmun Ikaros Agarum Kazma Umm an Namil Akkaz Teredon 5th–18th century...

the government. Failaka Island The majority of Kuwaitis from Failaka Island are of Iranian ancestry. They originally migrated to Failaka from the Iranian...

were also discovered in Akkaz. Umm an Namil Island Failaka Island H3 (Kuwait) Bahra 1 Ikaros (Failaka Island) Subiya, Kuwait Gachet, J. (1998). "Akkaz (Kuwait)...

the Iowa-class battleship USS Wisconsin (BB-64) observed Iraqi troops on Failaka Island surrendering shortly after USS Missouri's attack on their trenchlines...