List of wars involving Saudi Arabia

Wars involving Saudi Arabia

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This is a list of wars involving the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and its predecessor states.

## Emirate of Diriyah (1744–1818)[edit]

Main article: Emirate of Diriyah

Conflict | Combatant 1 | Combatant 2 | Result | Monarch

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Ottoman-Saudi War
(1811–1818)  |  Diriyah |  Ottoman Empire

* Egypt Eyalet

| Defeat

* End of the First Saudi State

Saud bin Abdul-Aziz

## Emirate of Riyadh (1902–1913)[edit]

Main article: Emirate of Riyadh

Conflict | Combatant 1 | Combatant 2 | Result | Monarch

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First Saudi–Rashidi War
(1903–1907)  |  Riyadh |  Jabal Shammar
Ottoman Empire | Victory

* Saudi takeover of central and northern Arabia

Ibn Saud

Conquest of al-Hasa
(1913)  |  Riyadh

* Ikhwan

|  Ottoman Empire | Victory

* Incorporation of al-Hasa into Saudi Arabia

## Emirate of Nejd and Hasa (1913–1921)[edit]

Main article: Emirate of Nejd and Hasa

Conflict | Combatant 1 | Combatant 2 | Result | Monarch

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Second Saud-Rashidi War |  Najd and Hasa |  Jabal Shammar | Unclear |

Ibn Saud

Kuwait–Najd War
(1919–1920)  |  Najd and Hasa

* Ikhwan

|  Sheikhdom of Kuwait | Defeat

* Ikhwan retreat from Kuwait

## Sultanate of Nejd (1921–1926)[edit]

Main article: Sultanate of Nejd

Conflict | Combatant 1 | Combatant 2 | Result | Monarch

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Saudi Conquest of Hejaz
(1924–1925)  |  Najd

* Ikhwan

|  Hejaz | Victory

* Incorporation of Hejaz.

Ibn Saud

## Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (1932–present)[edit]

Main article: Saudi Arabia

Conflict | Combatant 1 | Combatant 2 | Result | Monarch

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Saudi–Yemeni War
(1934)  |  Saudi Arabia |  Yemen | Victory

* Treaty of Taif signed on 14 June 1934, guaranteeing 20 years of peace between Saudi Arabia and Yemen
* Saudi Arabia leaves and Yemen gains control of Al-Hudaydah
* Jizan, Asir, and Najran became the provinces of Saudi Arabia

Ibn Saud

First Arab–Israeli War
(1948–1949)  |  Egypt
Iraq
Transjordan
Syria
Lebanon
Saudi Arabia
Yemen
HWA
ALA |  Israel | Defeat

* Arab League invasion of former Mandatory Palestine repelled
* 1949 Armistice Agreements

North Yemen Civil War
(1962–1965)  |  Kingdom of Yemen
Saudi Arabia |  Yemen Arab Republic

United Arab Republic

| Defeat

* Saudi Arabia stopped supplying the Royalists

Saud bin Abdulaziz Al Saud

Al-Wadiah War
(1969)  |  Saudi Arabia |  South Yemen | Victory

* al-Wadiah reoccupied by Saudi forces[1]

Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud

Yom Kippur War
(1973)  |  Egypt
Syria
Iraq
Jordan
Algeria
Morocco
Saudi Arabia
Cuba |  Israel | Defeat[2]

* Arab invasion repelled; UN ceasefire
* Egypt–Israel Peace Treaty[3]
* Israel–Syria Disengagement Agreement

Lebanese Civil War
(1976–1979)  |  ADF

* Syria
* Saudi Arabia
* Sudan
* United Arab Emirates
* Libya
* South Yemen

|  LF
FLA | Victory[4]

* ADF mission goals achieved[4]
* ADF becomes an all-Syrian force in 1979

Khalid bin Abdulaziz Al Saud

Gulf War
(1990–1991)  |  Kuwait
United States
United Kingdom
Saudi Arabia
France
Canada
Egypt
Syria
Oman
United Arab Emirates
Qatar
Italy
Australia |  Iraq | Victory

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

Fahd bin Abdulaziz Al Saud

Iraqi No-Fly Zone Enforcement Operations
(1991–2003)  |  United States
United Kingdom
France
Australia
Belgium
Netherlands
Saudi Arabia
Turkey
Italy |  Iraq | Victory

* Various bombings of Iraqi forces both aerial and naval
* Mass numbers of Iraqi targets killed or destroyed
* Reduction in Iraqi air defense
* Beginning of the Iraq War

First Intervention in the Somali Civil War
(1992–1995)  |  United States
United Kingdom
Spain
Saudi Arabia
Malaysia
Pakistan
Italy
India
Greece
Germany
France
Canada
Botswana
Belgium
Australia
New Zealand |  Somali National Alliance | Defeat

* Failure to capture SNA leader Mohamed Farrah Aidid; specific Aidid lieutenants captured
* Civil war is ongoing

Operation Ocean Shield
(2009–2016)  |  NATO
Malaysia
South Korea
India
Saudi Arabia |  Somali pirates | Victory

* Number of pirate attacks have decreased dramatically since the start of such operations, however attacks still occur near the coast waters of Oman, Yemen, Kenya, and Somalia
* Piracy drops 90%[5]

Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud

Sixth Sa'dah War
(2009–2010)  |  Yemen
Saudi Arabia
Jordan
Morocco |  Houthis | Stalemate[6]

* Houthis consolidate control over Sa'dah

American-led intervention in the Syrian civil war

(2014–present)

| CJTF-OIR

* United States
* United Kingdom
* France
* Saudi Arabia
* United Arab Emirates
* Italy
* Denmark
* Jordan

|  | present
War on ISIS
(2014–)  |  Iraq
Iraqi Kurdistan
Free Syrian Army
Rojava
United States
United Kingdom
Jordan
Turkey
Saudi Arabia
Bahrain
Qatar
United Arab Emirates
Morocco
Australia
Belgium
Canada
France
Germany
Denmark
Norway
Russia
Iran |  Islamic State

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al-Nusra Front
Khorasan | Ongoing

* Multinational intervention against Syrian Islamists

Saudi Arabian–led intervention in Yemen
(2015–)  |  Hadi government
Saudi Arabia
United Arab Emirates
Senegal
Sudan
Qatar
Bahrain
Kuwait
Jordan
Morocco
Egypt
France |  Houthi government

* Houthis
* Saleh loyalists

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Ansar al-Sharia

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Islamic State | Ongoing

* Houthis dissolve Yemeni government
* Houthis take control of northern Yemen
* Conflict in Najran, Jizan and Asir

Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud

## References[edit]

1. ^ Bidwell, Robin (1998). Dictionary Of Modern Arab History. Routledge. p. 437\. ISBN 9780710305053.
2. ^ References:
* Herzog, The War of Atonement, Little, Brown and Company, 1975. Forward
* Insight Team of the London Sunday Times, Yom Kippur War, Doubleday (publisher), 1974, p. 450
* Luttwak and Horowitz, The Israeli Army. Cambridge, MA, Abt Books, 1983
* Rabinovich, The Yom Kippur War, Schocken Books, 2004. p. 498
* Revisiting The Yom Kippur War, P.R. Kumaraswamy, pp. 1–2 ISBN 0313313024
* Johnson and Tierney, Failing To Win, Perception of Victory and Defeat in International Politics. p. 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. p. 411.
3. ^ Loyola, Mario (7 October 2013). "How We Used to Do It — American diplomacy in the". National Review. p. 1\. Archived from the original on 5 December 2013. Retrieved 2 December 2013.
4. ^ a b SM Saseen, The Taif Accord and Lebanon's Struggle to Regain its Sovereignty, p. 63.
5. ^ "Somali piracy is down 90 per cent from last year". The Journal. 15 December 2013. Archived from the original on 16 January 2014. Retrieved 14 January 2014.
6. ^ Zimmerman, Katherine L. Yemen's Pivotal Moment. Critical Threats Project of the American Enterprise Institute, 2014.

## Further information[edit]

* Bowen, Wayne H. (2008). The History of Saudi Arabia. Westport, CN: Greenwood Press. p. 153\. ISBN 978-0313340123. OCLC 166388162.
* "Wars involving Saudi Arabia". BBC.

## External links[edit]

* CBC Digital Archives – The 1991 Gulf War
* Master Index of Desert Storm Oral History Interviews Archived 2010-12-31 at the Wayback Machine by the United States Army Center of Military History
* Bibliography of the Desert Shield and Desert Storm compiled by the United States Army Center of Military History
* Persian Gulf War
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