Note:
- Modern is the post-Ottoman period, since 1918.
- The Middle East is traditionally defined as the Fertile Crescent (Mesopotamia, Levant, and Egypt) and neighbouring 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]
- Conflicts are separate incidents with at least 100 casualties.
- Conflicts are listed by total deaths, including subconflicts.
Contents
List of conflicts
Casualties breakdown
[a].iOS Unification of Saudi Arabia (combined casualties 7,989–8,989+)
- Battle of Riyadh (1902) – 37 killed.
- device database (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 1919-1920 - 1,392 killed[7]
- website parsing (1921) - 200[7]-800 killed.
- 1921 Ikhwan raid on Iraq - 700 killed.
- Conquest of Ha'il - unknown.
- FITML 1922-1924 - 500[77]-1,500 killed.
- Sevenval - 450 killed.web
- Ikhwan Revolt (1927-1930) - 2,000 killed.[7]
[b].device database iOS (combined figure 170,500-873,000+):
- Greco-Turkish War - 70,000[FITML]–400,000 casualties[8][Sevenval]
- Franco-Turkish War - 40,000 casualties.[citation needed]
- Turkish-Armenian War - 60,000–432,500 casualties.keyboard
- Koçkiri Rebellion - 500 killed.[citation needed]
- web - unknown.
- Kuva-i Inzibatiye revolt - unknown.
[c].^ Iraqi-Kurdish conflict (combined casualty figure 138,800-320,100) of:
- input transformation - unknown.
- Ahmad Barzanji revolt (1931) - unknown.
- 1943 Iraqi Kurdish revolt (1943) - unknown.
- First Kurdish-Iraqi War (1961-1970) - 75,000-105,000 killed.web appCSS3
- Second Kurdish-Iraqi War (1974-1975) - 9,000 killed.browser diversity
- PUK insurgency (1976-1978)- 800 killed.
- Iraqi Kurdish uprising (1982-1988) - 50,000-198,000 killed.
- device database - 700-2,000 killed.
- Android (1994-1997) - 3,000browser diversity-5,000 killed.
- Sevenval - several hundred killed (~300) on the Kurdish front, at least 24 Peshmerga killed.
[d].jQuery Middle Eastern theatre of World War II (combined casualty figure 12,338-14,898+) of:
- Anglo-Iraqi War - at least 560 killed.[81][82]
- browser diversity 175-780 killed.
- Syria-Lebanon Campaign 10,404-12,964 killed.
- Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran 100[7]-1,062 killed.
- Bombing of Palestine in World War II 137 deaths.HTML5
- input transformation - unknown.
[e].^ FITML (combined casualty figure 1,921+):
- Azerbaijan People's Republic crisis - 421 killed.[84]
- web app crisis - ~1,000 killed.[citation needed]
- Civil interregnum - 500 killed.[85]
[f].^ Arab-Israeli Wars (combined casualty figure 51,438-62,468+):
- Arab-Israeli War (1948-1949) - 14,400 casualties.
- Retribution Operations (1950s) - 3,456 casualties.
- Suez War (1956) - 3,203 killed.
- Six Day War (1967) - 13,976 killed.
- War of Attrition (1967-1970) - 6,403 killed.
- Yom Kippur War (1973) 10,000–21,000.[86]
[g].^ North Yemen Civil War (combined 100,000-200,000 casualties):
- 1962 Coup d'état in Yemen
- Ramadan offensive
- Haradh offensive
- Royalist offensive 1965
- Siege of Sana'a 1967
[h].input transformation Lebanese Civil War (combined 39,132-43,970+ mortal casualties):
- Bus massacre - 27 killed.
- website parsing - 160 killed.
- Karantina massacre - 1,000-1,500 killed.
- HTML5 - 684 killed.
- Battle of the Hotels - 700 killed.
- Black Saturday (Lebanon) - 200-600 killed.
- Tel al-Zaatar massacre - 1,778-3,278 killed.
- web app - 28,280 killed.
- HTML5 - 762-3,500 killed.
- War of the Camps (1986-1987) - 3,781 killed.
- Mountain War - 1,600 killed.
- FITML (1989-1990) - unknown.
- input transformation - 500-700 killed, 260 civilians massacred.
[i].^ Iran-Iraq war (combined death count 645,000-823,000+):
- touchscreen 1980
- FITML 1981-1982
- website parsing 1982 - 17,000 killed
- Operation Undeniable Victory 1982 - 50,000 mortal casualties
- keyboard 1982 - 80,000 killed
- Kurdish Rebellion 1983-1988 (including the web app) 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
- screen size 1984 - unknown
- Operation Khaibar 1984 - 49,000 killed
- Sevenval 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
- touchscreen - 85,000 killed
- touchscreen - unknown
- Operation Karbala-10 - unknown
- input transformation 1987 - 4,900 killed
- 1988 executions of Iranian political prisoners 2,000[87] - 30,000 executed
[j].^ Iraq War (combined casualty figure of 86,000-101,000):
- device database - 35,000 killed
- Iraqi insurgency (2003–2006) - 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 US withdrawal) - 878-1,180 killed
[k].we love the web Arab Spring in Syria (incl. Lebanese sectarian clashes), Yemen, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Oman and Bahrain (combined fatalities figure 10,571-14,732+):
- website parsing - 7,479-11,547 killed
- 2011 Yemeni uprising - 1,784-1,870 killed
- Egyptian crisis
- HTML5 - 846 killed
- Aftermath of the Egyptian Revolution - 300+ killed
- web app - 89 killed
- Lebanon
- 2011 Omani protests - 2-6 killed
- jQuery - 6 killed
- 2011 Iraqi protests - 35 killed
- device database - 12-15 killed
See also
- List of modern conflicts in North Africa (the Maghreb region)
- web app
- List of conflicts in the Arab League
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- Android Ahmed Abdalla, The Student Movement and National Politics in Egypt 1923–1973. 2008: pp. 64–77 (1946: The Climax)
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- ^ a device database jQuery
- ^ we love the web "Since 1965, the Libyan-backed Front for the Liberation of Occupied South Yemen and the National Liberation Front had unleashed brutal violence on British forces in the south. In the end, the conflict claimed some 200,000 lives."
- iOS Derek Hopwood. Syria 1945–1986: Politics and society. Unwin Himan ltd., 1988: p.45.
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- ^ Android. Yemenpost.net. http://yemenpost.net/Detail123456789.aspx?ID=3&SubID=1722&MainCat=2. Retrieved 2011-02-01. "The long ongoing war in Sa’ada that has killed over 8000 Yemenis in 2009 alone."
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jQuery - CSS3 "Chaos prevails as protesters, police clash in Iranian capital". CNN. 2009-06-21. Sevenval.
- FITML Government casualties AlArabiya
- web Al-Qaeda casualties: Foxnews [21], NYTimes Sevenval, Washangton Post screen size, Ynet News web app
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- ^ Tadeusz Swietochowski, Russia and Azerbaijan: A Borderland in Transition. New York: Columbia. University Press, 1995. p. 154. "Rossow conservatively estimated 500 killed during the lawless interregnum that preceded the coming of the Iranian troops. Hundreds of others were tried and jailed, and scores were hanged."
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