Conflict: | Najran conflict |
Place: | Najran |
Result: | Inconclusive |
Combatant2: | Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd |
Date: | 1931/1932 |
Commander1: | Unknown |
Commander2: | Khalid bin Luwai |
The Najran conflict was a poorly documented conflict over Najran in the early 1930s fought between the Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen and the Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd. In the winter of 1931/1932, in response to a Yemeni unit invading Najran and destroying Saudi property, Khalid bin Luwai arrived in Najran with his forces and clashed with Yemeni troops. As a result of the clash, the Yemeni troops were forced to withdraw from Najran.[1]
All known details are provided on page 322 of St John Philby's 1955 book Saudi Arabia, which gives the following account:[2] The conflict is also mentioned on page 54 of Nadav Safran's 1988 book Saudi Arabia: The Ceaseless Quest for Security,[3] which gives a similar account, likely based on that of Philby:[4]
In an enquiry in 2017, the Correlates of War project was unable to find any further information, and found that The Times did not contain any mention of such incident. They went on to add the following statement: