[1] The U.S. opened its first consulate in Kuwait on June 27, 1951, and began operating publicly on October 15 of the same year with Enoch Duncan as the U.S.

[1] On 12 December 1983, a truck laden with 45 large cylinders of gas connected to plastic explosives broke through the front gates of the American Embassy in Kuwait City and rammed into the embassy's three-story administrative annex, demolishing half the structure.

Initially, US diplomats were not to evacuate to publicly defy Iraq's invasion of the country.

[5] The decision was later reversed after Iraq freed approximately 750 US citizens held in Iraq and Kuwait, which allowed American Ambassador W. Nathaniel Howell and embassy staff to leave Kuwait on December 13, 1990, after 110 days spent in the embassy without power and with scarce rations.

[5][6] The United States, alongside a multinational coalition, expelled Iraqi forces from Kuwait in 1991.