List of wars involving Kuwait

This is a list of wars involving the State of Kuwait.

Conflict |  Kuwait
and allies |  Opponents |  Results |  Kuwaiti losses |  Head of State

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Military |  Civilians
Utbi Invasion of Bahrain
(1782–1783)  |  Sheikhdom of Kuwait
Zubarah |  Persia

* Bushehr

| Victory

* Naval attack by the Bushehri navy on Zubarah in 1782 fails.
* Civil war starts in Bahrain after the attack on Zubarah.
* Jidhafs win the civil war, however, by this time the Zubarans had just entered the country.
* Zubarah gains control of Bahrain in 1783

Abd Allah I

Battle of Al-Raqah[1]
(1783)  |  Sheikhdom of Kuwait |  Banu Kaab | Victory

* Kuwaiti victory over Banu Kaab.

~No Recorded Casualties

Ibn Ufaisan's Invasion
(1793)  |  Sheikhdom of Kuwait
Great Britain

* British East India Company

|  Emirate of Diriyah | Victory

* Saudi retreat from Kuwait.

Battle of Khakeekera[2]
(1811)  |  Sheikhdom of Kuwait
Bahrain |  Emirate of Diriyah

* Dammam

| Victory

* Rahmah ibn Jabir al-Jalahimah's invasion of Bahrain repelled.

~1000 (Kuwait and Bahrain)

Sheikh Humoud's Revolt[3]
(1828)  |  Sheikhdom of Kuwait
Ottoman Empire

* Baghdad Eyalet

| Arab tribes

* Al-Muntafiq
* Banu Kaab

| Victory

* Kuwaiti intervention in Basra leads to ceasefire with the Bani Kaab.
* Sheikh Humoud imprisoned by Governor of Baghdad Dawud Pasha and replaced by his nephew Sheikh Aqeel as Emir of the Muntafiq tribal confederation.

Jabir I

Siege of Basra[3]
(1831)  |  Sheikhdom of Kuwait
Arab tribes

* Banu Kaab
* Al-Muntafiq

|  Ottoman Empire

* Baghdad Eyalet

| Victory

* End of several week long siege of Basra by the allies of former Baghdad governor Dawud Pasha.
* Arab demands met with the Re-installation of Aziz Agha as Mutasallim of Basra.

Siege of Al-Zubair[4]
(1833)  |  Sheikhdom of Kuwait
House of Al Thaqib
Arab tribes

* Al-Muntafiq

| Zubair | Victory

* End of the seven-month-long siege of Zubair.
* Restoration of the Al Thaqib family as the ruling house of Zubair.
* Massacre of the House of Al Zuhair by the reinstated House of Al Thaqib; survivors find refuge in Kuwait and Ottoman Iraq.

Invasion of Muhammara[5]
(1837)  |  Sheikhdom of Kuwait
Ottoman Empire

* Baghdad Eyalet

|  Banu Kaab | Victory

* Capture and destruction of Muhammara (Khorramshahr) by Ali Rida Pasha, Governor of Baghdad.
* Banu Kaab pays homage to the Ottomans rather than the Persians.
* Kuwait wins alliance with the Ottoman Empire and becomes unrivaled in sharing with Basra the commercial prosperity in the northern region of the Gulf with the fall of Muhammara.

Al-Hasa Expedition[6][7]
(1870–1871)  |  Sheikhdom of Kuwait
Ottoman Empire
Arab tribes

Al-Muntafiq

|  Emirate of Nejd | Victory

* Al Hasa is reincorporated into the Ottoman Empire and becomes known as the Najd Sanjak.
* Sheikh Abdullah bin Sabah Al Sabah the ruler of Kuwait is granted the honorific title[8] of Kaymakam by the Ottomans for his contribution to the war effort.[9]

Abd Allah II

Kuwaiti–Rashidi War
(1900-1901)  |  Sheikhdom of Kuwait

* House of Saud

Arab tribes

* Al-Muntafiq
* Al-Awazem
* Al-Dhafeer
* Bani Khalid

|  Jabal Shammar | Defeat

* Kuwaiti Invasion of Najd repelled.
* Establishment of British Protectorate over Kuwait based on Anglo-Kuwaiti Agreement of 1899.

~1,200

Mubarak I

Battle of Jo-Laban[10][11]
(1903)  |  Sheikhdom of Kuwait
Emirate of Nejd and Hasa
Arab tribes

Al-Muntafiq

* Ajman tribe
* Bani Khalid
* Al-Awazem

|  Jabal Shammar

* Mutayr

| Victory

* Five thousand camels captured as booty.
* Beginning of Saudi-Rashidi War.

Battle of Hadia[12]
(1910)  |  Sheikhdom of Kuwait
Emirate of Nejd and Hasa |  Al-Muntafiq | Defeat

* Kuwaiti-Saudi initial defeat at the Battle of Hadia.
* Sheikh Mubarak sends another force which easily claims victory against the Al Muntafiq tribe.

~338

Mesopotamian Campaign[13][14][15]
(1914–1918)  |  Sheikhdom of Kuwait (1914)
British Empire

* Australia
* India
* New Zealand

|  Ottoman Empire
German Empire | Victory

Kuwaiti Front:

* Ottoman forces expelled from their positions in Umm Qasr, Safwan, and Bubiyan.
* British public recognition of Kuwait as a protectorate proclaiming it to be an “independent government under British protection.[16]

British Front:

* Treaty of Sèvres

Kuwait–Najd War
(1919–1920)  |  Sheikhdom of Kuwait |  Emirate of Nejd and Hasa

* Ikhwan

| Kuwaiti Military victory, Najdi Political Victory

* Uqair Protocol of 1922

~200

Salim I

Ikhwan Revolt
(1927–1930)  |  Sheikhdom of Kuwait
Nejd and Hejaz
United Kingdom

* RAF

|  Ikhwan | Victory

* Ikhwan attack on Kuwait repelled.
* The remnants of the Ikhwan incorporated into regular Saudi units.
* The Ikhwan leadership was either slain or imprisoned.

~14[17]

Ahmad I

Abdul Karim Qasim's crisis
(1961-1963)  |  Kuwait
United Kingdom
Saudi Arabia
Jordan
United Arab Republic
Sudan
|  Iraq | Mission success

* The crisis ended after the military coup against Abdul Karim Qasim and his execution.
* Saudi Arabia forces were sent to Kuwait consisting of 1,281 Saudi soldiers.

~None

Abd Allah III

Six-Day War
(1967)  |  Egypt
Syria
Jordan
Iraq
Algeria
Kuwait
Libya
Morocco
Pakistan
PLO
Saudi Arabia
Sudan
Tunisia |  Israel | Defeat

* Israel captured the Gaza Strip, Sinai, the West Bank and the Golan Heights.

~18,510-23,510 (Arab forces combined)

Sabah III

Al-Samita border skirmish
(1973)  |  Kuwait |  Iraq | Ceasefire

* Pull back of Iraqi Armed Forces to the demarcation line set by the Arab League during Operation Vantage 1961.
* Iraqi withdrawal from Al-Sanita border post under Saudi pressure.[18]

October War
(1973)  |  Egypt
Syria
Iraq
Jordan
Algeria
Cuba
Morocco
Tunisia
Libya
PLO
Kuwait
Saudi Arabia
Pakistan
North Korea
|  Israel | Defeat[19]

* Syrian invasion of Israel repelled; UN ceasefire.
* Geneva Conference and the Sinai II Agreement.
* Strategic political gains for Egypt and Israel – especially Egypt
* Egypt–Israel peace treaty

Invasion of Kuwait

(1990)

|  Kuwait |  Iraq | Defeat

* Iraqi-backed puppet state known as the Republic of Kuwait installed
* Puppet stateRepublic of Kuwait later annexed as Iraq's 19th province
* Beginning of the Gulf War

| 420[20] | ?
Gulf War
(1990–1991)  |  Kuwait
United States
United Kingdom
Saudi Arabia
France
Canada
Egypt
Syria
Oman
United Arab Emirates
Bahrain
Qatar
Other Allies |  Iraq | Victory

* Iraqi withdrawal from Kuwait; Emir Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah restored.
* Heavy casualties and destruction of Iraqi and Kuwaiti infrastructure.

~200

~1,000

Jabir III

Yemeni Civil War
(2015–)  |  Hadi government
Southern Movement
Saudi Arabia
United Arab Emirates
Bahrain
Kuwait
Qatar
Jordan
Morocco
Sudan
Egypt
Senegal |  Houthi government

* Houthis
* Saleh loyalists

* * *

Al-Qaeda

* Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula

* * *

Islamic State

* Wilayah al-Yemen

| Ongoing

* Houthis dissolve Yemeni government.
* Houthis take control of northern Yemen.

~None

Sabah IV

* * *

Nawaf I

## References[edit]

1. ^ ar:معركة الرقة
2. ^ ar:معركة خكيكرة
3. ^ a b Abu-Hakima, Ahmad Mustafa. "The Siege of Basra (1831)." The Modern History of Kuwait, 1750–1965. London: Luzac &, 1983. 79. Print.
4. ^ Abu-Hakima, Ahmad Mustafa. "Kuwait and Al-Zubair." The Modern History of Kuwait, 1750–1965. London: Luzac &, 1983. 76-78. Print.
5. ^ Abu-Hakima, Ahmad Mustafa. "Invasion of Muhammara (1837)." The Modern History of Kuwait, 1750–1965. London: Luzac &, 1983. 80. Print.
6. ^ ar:عبد الله الثاني الصباح#cite note-2
7. ^ Abu-Hakima, Ahmad Mustafa. "The Expedition Route, Midhat Pasha in Al-Hasa, Kuwait's Role in the Ottoman Expedition 1871–1873, Abd Allah's Direct Role in the War." The Modern History of Kuwait, 1750–1965. London: Luzac &, 1983. 85-89. Print.
8. ^ Albaharna, Husain M (1968). The Legal Status of the Arabian Gulf States. ISBN 9780719003325. Retrieved 12 December 2014.
9. ^ Abu-Hakima, Ahmad Mustafa. "The Effects of Al-Hasa Expedition on Kuwait." The Modern History of Kuwait, 1750–1965. London: Luzac &, 1983. 89-90. Print.
10. ^ "( 1903 ) -". Retrieved 12 December 2014.
11. ^ "معركة جو لبن". Retrieved 12 December 2014.
12. ^ ar:معركة هدية
13. ^ Slot 2005, p. 406
14. ^ Slot 2005, p. 407
15. ^ Slot 2005, p. 409
16. ^ Slot 2005 406"
17. ^ "1928 -". Retrieved 12 December 2014.
18. ^ Iraq–Kuwait relations
19. ^
* Herzog, The War of Atonement, Little, Brown and Company, 1975. Forward
* Insight Team of the London Sunday Times, Yom Kippur War, Doubleday and Company, Inc, 1974, page 450
* Luttwak and Horowitz, The Israeli Army. Cambridge, MA, Abt Books, 1983
* Rabinovich, The Yom Kippur War, Schocken Books, 2004. Page 498
* 0-313-31302-4&lr=#v=onepage&q=&f=false Revisiting The Yom Kippur War, P.R. Kumaraswamy, pages 1–2
* Johnson and Tierney, Failing To Win, Perception of Victory and Defeat in International Politics. Page 177
* Charles Liebman, The Myth of Defeat: The Memory of the Yom Kippur war in Israeli Society[permanent dead link] Middle Eastern Studies, Vol 29, No. 3, July 1993. Published by Frank Cass, London. Page 411.
20. ^ "Kuwaiti casualties". kkackm.

## Bibliography[edit]

* Slot, B.J. (2005). Mubarak Al-Sabah : Founder of Modern Kuwait 1896-1915. London: Arabian Publishing Ltd. ISBN 978-0-9544792-4-4.

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