Safwan

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Safwan (Arabic: صفوان‎) is a town in southeast Iraq on the border with Kuwait. It was the site of an Iraqi Air Force base.

Gulf War

Sultan Hashim Ahmad at Gulf War ceasfire talks, Safwan, Iraq, March 3, 1991 with US interpreter Rick Francona

Safwan is located in the south of Iraq at Iraqi Kuwaiti border, along the infamous Highway of Death from the Gulf War of 1991. The cease-fire negotiations between Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf and the Iraqi delegation led by Lt Gen Sultan Hashim Ahmad took place in Safwan. Schwarzkopf's demand to hold the formal cease-fire negotiations in Iraqi territory led to the encounter between the 1st squadron, 4th Cavalry regiment (Quarterhorse) from Ft. Riley, Ks. of the U.S. 1st Infantry Division (Mechanized) and the Iraqi Republican Guard, known in military circles as The Ultimatum. This was detailed in the book Third Graders At War, as well as the book Road to Safwan.

Name

Safwan is also an Arabic name for a boy.

Coordinates: 30°07′N 47°43′E / 30.117°N 47.717°E / 30.117; 47.717

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