Travel was highly restricted in the country due to the US-led campaign against the Taliban and al-Qaeda.

In 1991, the country was the scene of a massive US-led international military campaign to oust Iraqi forces, which had invaded the year before.

That followed a US-led campaign to force the North to allow full international inspection of it's nuclear facilities, including two undeclared sites.

He was supportive of the US-led campaign to remove the Taliban in Afghanistan, which began in 2001, but was a vocal critic of the 2003 war in Iraq.

The officer further misidentified Saleem as a Sudan national, who had apparently fled Afghanistan for Pakistan after the US-led military campaign began in October 2001.

The bond between the two countries was again to the fore in the new millennium when their leaders voiced strong opposition as the US-led campaign in Iraq began.

Warsaw's profile on the international stage was raised by its support for the US-led military campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The ICRC, in response to the US-led military campaign in Afghanistan, published a paper on the subject.

Mexico - Mexico supported further inspections, and hinted that it would support a US-led military campaign if it were backed by the UN.

A communiqué issued at the end of the conference condemned the "US-led military campaign against Iraq [as]an act of aggression against the Arab nation".