Bodyclass: | geography |
Above: | Middle East |
Label1: | Countries (2018) |
Data1: | Bahrain, Cyprus, Egypt, Iran, Iraq (Iraqi Kurdistan), Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, North Cyprus*, Oman, Palestine*, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria (DFNS), Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Yemen |
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This is a list of modern conflicts in the Middle East ensuing in the geographic and political region known as the Middle East. The "Middle East" is traditionally defined as the Fertile Crescent (Mesopotamia), Levant, and Egypt and neighboring areas of Arabia, Anatolia and Iran. It currently encompasses the area from Egypt, Turkey and Cyprus in the west to Iran and the Persian Gulf in the east,[1] and from Turkey and Iran in the north, to Yemen and Oman in the south.
Date | Conflict | Location | data-sort-type="number" | Casualties | ||
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align=center | 1902–1932 | Unification of Saudi Arabia | Riyadh Hejaz Kuwait Nejd Transjordan Mandatory Iraq Nejd and Hejaz | align=right data-sort-value="8000" | 8,000–9,000 | |
align=center | 1909–1910 | Zaraniq rebellion | align=right data-sort-value="830" | 830+ | ||
align=center | 1914–1918 | Middle Eastern theatre of World War I | Persia Egypt Nejd and Hasa Jabal Shammar Kuwait Lahej Armenia Azerbaijan | align=right data-sort-value="2825000" | Ottoman Empire deaths including civilians: 2,825,000[2] [3] [4] –5,000,000[5] Allied killed, wounded, captured or missing: 1,000,000–1,500,000 Persians died by famine or disease, excluding influenza: 2,000,000[6] [7] [8] | |
align=center | 1918–1922 | Simko Shikak revolt[9] | Persia | align=right data-sort-value="1000" | 1,000–5,500 | |
align=center | 1919 | Egyptian Revolution of 1919[10] | Egypt | align=right data-sort-value="3000" | 3,000 | |
align=center | 1919–1923 | Greece Armenia | align=right data-sort-value="170500" | 882,100–2,075,600+ | ||
align=center | 1919–2003 | Mandatory Iraq Kingdom of Iraq Iraq Kingdom of Kurdistan | align=right data-sort-value="139000" | 139,000–320,000 killed | ||
align=center | 1920 | Franco-Syrian War | Arab Kingdom of Syria OETA | align=right data-sort-value="5000" | 5,000 | |
align=center | 1920 | Iraqi revolt against the British[11] [12] | Mandatory Iraq | align=right data-sort-value="2050" | 2,050–9,000 | |
1921–1948 | Sectarian conflict in Mandatory Palestine | 7,813 | ||||
align=center | 1923 | Adwan Rebellion | Transjordan | align=right data-sort-value="100" | 100 | |
1925–1927 | Great Syrian Revolt (Druze War)[13] | Greater Lebanon State of Syria Jabal Druze Alawite State | 8,000–12,000 | |||
align=center | 1925 | Sheikh Said rebellion | Turkey | align=right data-sort-value="15000" | 15,000–250,500 | |
align=center | 1930 | Ararat rebellion[14] [15] [16] [17] [18] | Turkey Republic of Ararat | align=right data-sort-value="4500" | 4,500–47,000 | |
align=center | 1933 | Simele massacre[19] | align=right data-sort-value="3000" | 3,000 | ||
align=center | 1934 | Saudi-Yemeni War[20] | Saudi Arabia | align=right data-sort-value="2100" | 2,100 | |
align=center | 1935 | Imam Reza shrine rebellion[21] | align=right data-sort-value="151" | 151 | ||
align=center | 1935–1936 | 1935–1936 Iraqi Shia revolts | align=right data-sort-value="500" | 500 | ||
align=center | 1935 | 1935 Yazidi revolt | align=right data-sort-value="200" | 200 | ||
align=center | 1936 | 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine | ||||
align=center | 1937 | Dersim rebellion[22] | Turkey | align=right data-sort-value="40000" | 40,000–70,000 | |
align=center | 1939–1945 | Mediterranean and Middle East theatre of World War II | Iran French Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon | align=right data-sort-value="16000" | ≈16,000 | |
align=center | 1946 | Jewish insurgency in Mandatory Palestine | ||||
align=center | 1946 | Egyptian Student Riots[23] [24] | Egypt | align=right data-sort-value="100" | 100–300 | |
align=center | 1946 | Iran crisis of 1946[25] | Azerbaijan People's Government | align=right data-sort-value="2000" | 2,000 | |
align=center | 1948– | Arab–Israeli conflict | Egypt All-Palestine Government Egypt Jordan Lebanon Israel | align=right data-sort-value="73000" | 73,000–84,000 | |
align=center | 1948 | Alwaziri coup | Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen | align=right data-sort-value="4000" | 4,000–5,000 | |
align=center | 1948 | Al-Wathbah uprising | align=right data-sort-value="300" | 300–400 | ||
align=center | 1949 | March 1949 Syrian coup d'état | align=right | unknown | ||
align=center | 1952 | Egyptian revolution of 1952 | Egypt | align=right data-sort-value="1000" | 1,000 | |
align=center | 1953 | 1953 Iranian coup d'état[26] | align=right data-sort-value="300" | 300–800 | ||
align=center | 1954–1960 | Jebel Akhdar War | Muscat and Oman | align=right data-sort-value="100" | 100–523 | |
align=center | 1955–1959 | Cyprus Emergency[27] | Cyprus | align=right data-sort-value="400" | 400–600 | |
align=center | 1956 | Suez Crisis | ||||
align=center | 1956–1960 | Yemeni–Adenese clan violence | align=right data-sort-value="1000" | 1,000 | ||
align=center | 1958 | 1958 Lebanon Crisis | Lebanon | align=right data-sort-value="1300" | 1,300–4,000 | |
align=center | 1958 | 1958 Iraqi Revolution | align=right data-sort-value="100" | 100 | ||
align=center | 1959 | 1959 Mosul uprising | Iraqi Republic | align=right data-sort-value="2000" | 2,000–4,000 | |
align=center | 1962–1970 | North Yemen Civil War[28] | Saudi Arabia Egypt | align=right data-sort-value="100000" | 100,000–200,000 | |
align=center | 1962–1975 | Dhofar Rebellion | Oman | align=right data-sort-value="10000" | 10,000 | |
align=center | 1963 | 1963 Riots in Iran | align=right data-sort-value="100" | 100 | ||
align=center | 1963 | February 1963 Ba'athist Iraqi coup[29] | Iraq | align=right data-sort-value="1000" | 1,000 | |
align=center | 1963 | 8th of March Syrian Revolution[30] | align=right data-sort-value="820" | 820 | ||
align=center | 1963–1967 | Aden Emergency[31] | align=right data-sort-value="2096" | 2,096 | ||
align=center | 1963 | November 1963 Iraqi coup | Iraq | align=right data-sort-value="250" | 250 | |
align=center | 1964 | 1964 Hama riot[32] [33] | align=right data-sort-value="70" | 70–100 | ||
align=center | 1966 | 1966 neo-Ba'athist coup d'état in Syria | align=right data-sort-value="400" | 400 | ||
align=center | 1966 | 1966 Arif Abd ar-Razzaq second coup[34] | Iraq | align=right data-sort-value="80" | 80–100 | |
align=center | 1970–1971 | Black September | Jordan | align=right data-sort-value="2000" | 2,000–25,000 | |
align=center | 1972 | Yemenite War of 1972 | align=right data-sort-value="100" | 100+ | ||
align=center | 1974 | Turkish invasion of Cyprus[35] | Cyprus | align=right data-sort-value="1500" | 1,500–5,000 | |
align=center | 1974 | Shatt al-Arab clashes[36] | align=right data-sort-value="1000" | 1,000 | ||
align=center | 1975–1990 | Lebanese Civil War[37] | Lebanon | align=right data-sort-value="150000" | 150,000 | |
align=center | 1976–1980 | Political violence in Turkey (1976–1980)[38] [39] [40] | Turkey | align=right data-sort-value="5000" | 5,000–5,388 | |
align=center | 1978–1982 | NDF Rebellion | align=right data-sort-value="100" | 100+ | ||
align=center | 1978– | Kurdish–Turkish conflict (1978–present)[41] | Turkey Iraq | align=right data-sort-value="30000" | 30,000–100,000 | |
align=center | 1979 | Yemenite War of 1979 | align=right data-sort-value="1000" | 1,000+ | ||
align=center | 1979 | Iranian Revolution[42] [43] | align=right data-sort-value="3164" | 3,164–60,000 | ||
align=center | 1979–1980 | align=right data-sort-value="10171" | 10,171 | |||
align=center | 1979–1983 | Saudi Eastern Province unrest[44] | Saudi Arabia | align=right data-sort-value="182" | 182–219 | |
align=center | 1979 | Grand Mosque seizure[45] | Saudi Arabia | align=right data-sort-value="307" | 307 | |
align=center | 1979–1982 | Islamist uprising in Syria | align=right data-sort-value="40000" | 40,000+ | ||
align=center | 1980 | 1980 Turkish coup d'état[46] [47] | Turkey | align=right data-sort-value="127" | 127–550 | |
align=center | 1980 | 1980 Sadr uprising | Iraq | align=right data-sort-value="1000" | 1,000–30,000 | |
align=center | 1980–1988 | Iran–Iraq War[48] | Iraq Kuwait | align=right data-sort-value="1000000" | 1,000,000–1,250,000 | |
align=center | 1986 | South Yemen Civil War[49] | align=right data-sort-value="5000" | 5,000–12,000 | ||
align=center | 1986 | 1986 Egyptian Conscription Riot[50] | Egypt | align=right data-sort-value="107" | 107 | |
align=center | 1986 | 1986 Damascus bombings[51] | align=right data-sort-value="204" | 204 | ||
align=center | 1987 | Iranian pilgrim riot (Mecca massacre)[52] | Saudi Arabia | align=right data-sort-value="402" | 402 | |
align=center | 1987–1988 | ANO Executions | Lebanon | align=right data-sort-value="170" | 170 | |
align=center | 1989–1996 | KDPI insurgency (1989–1996) | align=right data-sort-value="168" | 168–503 | ||
align=center | 1990–1991 | Gulf War | Iraq Kuwait Saudi Arabia | align=right data-sort-value="40000" | 40,000–57,000 | |
align=center | 1991 | 1991 Iraqi uprisings[53] [54] | Iraq | align=right data-sort-value="50000" | 50,000–100,000 | |
align=center | 1994 | 1994 civil war in Yemen | Yemen | align=right data-sort-value="7000" | 7,000–10,000 | |
align=center | 1995– | Islamic Insurgency in Saudi Arabia | Saudi Arabia | align=right data-sort-value="300" | 300 | |
align=center | 1998 | Operation Desert Fox (Iraqi no-fly zones) | Iraq | align=right data-sort-value="2000" | 2,000 | |
align=center | 1999 | 1999 Shia uprising in Iraq[55] | Iraq | align=right data-sort-value="100" | 100–200 | |
align=center | 2003–2011 | Iraq War[56] [57] [58] [59] [60] [61] | Ba'athist Iraq Iraq | align=right data-sort-value="109032" | 109,032–650,726 See also: Casualties of the Iraq War | |
align=center | 2004 | Qamishli massacre (2004)[62] [63] | align=right data-sort-value="30" | 30–100 | ||
2004–2014 | Shia insurgency in Yemen[64] [65] [66] | Saudi Arabia Yemen | align=right data-sort-value="8500" | 8,500–25,000 | ||
align=center | 2004– | Iran–PJAK conflict[67] | align=right data-sort-value="588" | 588–747 | ||
align=center | 2006– | Fatah–Hamas conflict[68] [69] | Gaza Strip | align=right data-sort-value="600" | 600+ | |
align=center | 2006 | Israel | align=right data-sort-value="1600" | ≈1600 | ||
align=center | 2006– | Israel | align=right data-sort-value="2000" | ≈2000 | ||
align=center | 2007 | Nahr al-Bared fighting | Lebanon | align=right data-sort-value="480" | 480 | |
align=center | 2008 | 2008 Lebanon conflict | Lebanon | align=right data-sort-value="105" | 105 | |
align=center | 2009–2015 | South Yemen Insurgency[70] | Yemen | align=right data-sort-value="2100" | 2,100+ | |
align=center | 2010–2015 | Yemeni al-Qaeda crackdown[71] [72] | Yemen | align=right data-sort-value="3000" | 3,000+ | |
align=center | 2011 | 2011 Bahraini uprising | Bahrain Saudi Arabia | align=right data-sort-value="100" | 100+ | |
align=center | 2011– | Shia insurgency in Bahrain | align=right data-sort-value"22" | 22+ | ||
align=center | 2011–2014 | Egyptian crisis (2011–14) | Egypt | align=right data-sort-value="7000" | 7,000+ | |
align=center | 2011– | Yemeni Crisis (2011–present) | Yemen | align=right data-sort-value="9000" | 9,000+ | |
align=center | 2011– | Syrian civil war | align=right data-sort-value="250000" | 503,064–613,407 + | ||
align=center | 2011–2017 | Syrian civil war spillover in Lebanon | Lebanon | align=right data-sort-value="800" | ≈800 | |
align=center | 2011– | Iran–Saudi Arabia proxy conflict | Saudi Arabia | align=right data-sort-value="0" | ||
align=center | 2013–2017 | War in Iraq (2013–2017) | align=right data-sort-value="73361" | 155,500–165,500+ | ||
align=center | 2015– | Yemeni Civil War | Yemen Saudi Arabia United Arab Emirates | align=right data-sort-value="50000" | 377,000+ | |
align=center | 2016– | Western Iran clashes | align=right data-sort-value="74" | 74–156 | ||
align=center | 15–16 July 2016 | 2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt | Turkey | align=right data-sort-value="270" | 270–350 | |
align=center | 2017 | 2017 Iraqi–Kurdish conflict | Iraq | align=right data-sort-value="685" | +305 | |
align=center | 2017– | Iraqi insurgency (2017–present) | Iraq | align=right data-sort-value="5000" | 4,000+ | |
align=center | 2023– | Israel–Hamas war | Israel Gaza Strip | align=right data-sort-value="9911" | 34,000+ | |
align=center | 2023– | Israel–Hezbollah conflict (2023–present) | Israel Lebanon | align=right data-sort-value="9911" | 400+ | |
align=center | 2023– | Red Sea crisis | Yemen Israel Red Sea Gulf of Aden | align=right data-sort-value="9911" | 40+ | |
align=center | 2024– | 2024 Iran–Israel conflict | Israel Jordan Iraq Yemen Lebanon | align=right data-sort-value="9911" | 20+ | |
[a].Unification of Saudi Arabia (combined casualties 7,989–8,989+)
Battle of Riyadh (1902) – 37 killed.
Battle of Dilam (1903) – 410 killed.
Saudi–Rashidi War (1903–1907) – 2,300+ killed.
Annexation of Al-Hasa and Qatif (1913) – unknown.
Battle of Jarrab (1915) – unknown.
Battle of Kanzaan (1915) – unknown.
First Nejd–Hejaz War, 1918–1919 – 8,392+ killed
Kuwait–Najd War (1921) – 200[73] –800 killed.
1921 Ikhwan raid on Iraq – 700 killed.
Conquest of Ha'il – unknown.
Ikhwan raids on Transjordan 1922–1924 – 500[74] -1,500 killed.
Second Nejd–Hejaz War (1924–1925) – 450 killed.
Ikhwan Revolt (1927–1930) – 2,000 killed.
[p].Middle Eastern theatre of World War I (combined casualty figure 2,825,000–5,000,000) of:
[b].Turkish War of Independence (combined figure 882,100–2,075,600+):
Greco-Turkish War – 70,000–400,000 casualties
Franco-Turkish War – 40,000 casualties.
Turkish–Armenian War – 60,000–432,500 casualties.[75]
Revolts during the Turkish War of Independence - more than 27,082+ casualties
Turkish-Georgian War (Red Army invasion of Georgia)- 20,000 casualties.
665,000-1,156,000 Greek, Armenian, Turkish etc. civilian massacred during the war.[76] [c].Iraqi–Kurdish conflict (combined casualty figure 138,800–320,100) of:
Mahmud Barzanji revolts – unknown.
Ahmad Barzanji revolt (1931) – unknown.
1943 Iraqi Kurdish revolt (1943) – unknown.
First Iraqi–Kurdish War (1961–1970) – 75,000–105,000 killed.[77]
Second Iraqi–Kurdish War (1974–1975) – 9,000 killed.[78]
600,000 displaced[79] [80]
PUK insurgency (1976–1978) – 800 killed.
Iraqi Kurdish uprising (1982–1988) – 50,000–198,000 killed.
1991 Uprising in As Sulaymaniyah – 700–2,000 killed.
Iraqi Kurdish Civil War (1994–1997) – 3,000[81] –5,000 killed.
2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq – several hundred killed (≈300) on the Kurdish front, at least 24 Peshmerga soldiers killed.
[d].Middle Eastern theatre of World War II (combined casualty figure 12,338–14,898+) of:
Anglo-Iraqi War – at least 560 killed.[82] [83]
Farhud 175–780 killed.
Syria–Lebanon Campaign 10,404–12,964 killed.
Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran 100 – 1,062 killed.
Bombing of Palestine in World War II 137 deaths.[84]
Bombing of Bahrain in World War II – unknown.
[e].Iran crisis of 1946 (combined casualty figure 1,921+):
Azerbaijan People's Republic crisis – 421 killed.[85]
Republic of Mahabad crisis – ≈1,000 killed.
Civil interregnum – 500 killed.[86]
[f].Arab–Israeli conflict (combined casualty figure 76,338–87,338+):
Arab–Israeli War (1948–1949) – 14,400 casualties.
Palestinian Fedayeen insurgency and Retribution operations (1950s) – 3,456 casualties
Suez War (1956) – 3,203 killed.
Israeli–Palestinian conflict (1965–present) – 24,000 killed
Palestinian insurgency in South Lebanon – 2,600–20,000 killed
Operation Litani
1982 Lebanon War
First Palestinian Intifada – 2,000 killed
Al-Aqsa Intifada – 7,000 killed
Gaza–Israel conflict – 3,500+ killed
Six-Day War (1967) – 13,976 killed.
War of Attrition (1967–1970) – 6,403 killed.
Yom Kippur War (1973) 10,000–21,000.[87]
[g].North Yemen Civil War (combined 100,000–200,000 casualties):
1962 Coup d'état
Ramadan offensive
Haradh offensive
1965 Royalist offensive
[h].Lebanese Civil War (combined 39,132–43,970+ mortal casualties):
Bus massacre – 27 killed.
Hundred Days' War – 160 killed.
Karantina massacre – 1,000–1,500 killed.
Damour massacre – 684 killed.
Battle of the Hotels – 700 killed.
Black Saturday (Lebanon) – 200–600 killed.
Tel al-Zaatar massacre – 1,778–3,278 killed.
1982 Lebanon War – 28,280 killed.
Sabra and Shatila massacre – 762–3,500 killed.
War of the Camps (1986–1987) – 3,781 killed.
Mountain War – 1,600 killed.
War of Liberation (1989–1990) – unknown.
October 13 massacre – 500–700 killed, 260 civilians massacred.
[i].Consolidation of the Iranian Revolution (combined fatalities count 12,000):
1979 Kurdish rebellion in Iran – 10,171+ killed and executed.[88] [89]
1979 Khuzestan uprising – 112+ killed.
1979 Khorasan uprising – unknown.
1979 Azeri uprising – unknown.
1979 Baluchistan uprising – 50 killed.
Iran hostage crisis – 9 killed.
1979–1980 Tehran clashes – unknown.
[j].Iran–Iraq War (combined death count 645,000–823,000+):
Iraqi invasion 1980
Mujahedin al-Halq uprising 1981–1982
Liberation of Khorramshahr 1982 – 17,000 killed
Operation Undeniable Victory 1982 – 50,000 mortal casualties
Operation Ramadan 1982 – 80,000 killed
Kurdish Rebellion 1983–1988 (including the Al-Anfal Campaign) 50,000–198,000 killed
Operation Before the Dawn 1983 – 6,000+ killed
Operation Dawn 3 – 162,000 killed
Operation Dawn 5 1984 – 50,000 killed
Operation Dawn 6 1984 – unknown
Operation Khaibar 1984 – 49,000 killed
Tanker War 1984
Operation Badr (1985) – 30,000–32,000
War of the Cities 1985–1987
Operation Dawn-8 1986 – unknown
Operation Karbala-4 1986 – 15,000 killed
Operation Karbala-5 – 85,000 killed
Operation Nasr 4 – unknown
Operation Karbala-10 – unknown
Operation Mersad 1987 – 4,900 killed
1988 executions of Iranian political prisoners 2,000[90] – 30,000 executed
[k].Iraq War 2003–2011 (combined casualty figure of 192,361–226,056+):
2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq – 35,000 killed
Iraqi insurgency (2003–06) – 15,000 killed
Civil war in Iraq 2006–2008 – 30,000–40,000 killed
Iraqi insurgency (2008–2011) – 5,000–10,000 killed
Withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq – ≈1,000 killed
Iraqi insurgency (post-U.S. withdrawal) – 54,000+ killed
War in Iraq (2013–2017) – 53,361–72,056 killed
[l].Sectarian conflict in Mandatory Palestine (combined casualties 7,813)
1921 Jaffa riots – 95 killed
1929 Palestine riots – 251 killed.[91] [92]
1933 Palestine riots – 20 killed.[93]
Arab Revolt in Palestine – 5,000 killed.[94]
Jewish insurgency in Palestine (1944–47) – 338 British[95] and around 100 Palestinian Jews killed.
1947–48 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine – 2,009 killed by 1 April 1948.[96]
[m].Egyptian Crisis (combined casualties 5,000+)
Egyptian Revolution of 2011 – 846 killed
Sinai insurgency – 2,800+ killed
[n].Syrian civil war (combined casualties 503,064–613,407)
[o].Iran–Israel proxy conflict (combined casualties ≈2,000)
"Despite Iran's official neutrality, this pattern of interference continued during World War I as Ottoman-, Russian-, British-, and German-supported local forces fought across Iran, wreaking enormous havoc on the country. With farmland, crops, livestock, and infrastructure destroyed, as many as 2 million Iranians died of famine at the war's end. Although the Russian Revolution of 1917 led to the recall of Russian troops, and thus gave hope to Iranians that the foreign yoke might be relenting, the British quickly moved to fill the vacuum in the north, and by 1918, had turned the country into an unofficial protectorate."
"As the Great War came to its close in the fall of 1918, Iran's plight was woeful. The war had created an economic catastrophe, invading armies had ruined farmland and irrigation works, crops and livestock were stolen or destroyed, and peasants had been taken from their fields and forced to serve as laborers in the variousarmies. Famine killed as many as two million Iranians out of a population of little more than ten million."