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Events on Saturday 20 August 1988 1
1988Iran-Iraq War ends in ceasefireUN-brokered truce halts eight years of fightingIran and Iraq accepted a United Nations-brokered ceasefire, ending nearly eight years of war that had killed an estimated one million people. The conflict left the border largely unchanged from before the fighting began. Formal peace negotiations dragged on for years afterward.