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There was a Byzantine and Christian Arab garrison nearby, but the size of the garrison was miscalculated by the Muslim informants. The garrison quickly encircled the small Muslim detachment, but before it was completely destroyed, Khalid came to the rescue of the Muslim army. Abu Ubaidah, having received new intelligence, had sent Khalid.
United Arab Emirates. Emirate of Abu Dhabi (1761–present) Emirate of Ajman (1816–present) Emirate of Dubai (1833–present) Emirate of Fujairah (1876–present) Emirate of Ras Al Khaimah (1727–present) Emirate of Sharjah (1803–present) Emirate of Umm Al Quwain (1775–present) Dibba (1871–1953) Hamriyya (1875–1922) Hira (1915–1942 ...
The Arab Congress of 1913 (also known as the "Arab National Congress, [1]" the "First Palestinian Conference," the "First Arab Congress, [2]" and the "Arab-Syrian Congress [3]") met in a hall of the French Geographical Society (Société de Géographie) at 184 Boulevard Saint-Germain, Paris from June 18–23 in Paris to discuss more autonomy for the Arab people living under the Ottoman Empire.
The 1974–1975 Shatt al-Arab conflict consisted of armed cross-border clashes between Iran and Iraq. It was a major escalation of the Shatt al-Arab dispute , which had begun in 1936 due to opposing territorial claims by both countries over the Shatt al-Arab , a transboundary river that runs partly along the Iran–Iraq border .
Around 400 Arab towns and villages were depopulated during the 1948 Palestinian exodus. The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East was established to alleviate their condition. [4] After the war, "[t]he Arab states insisted on two main demands", neither of which were accepted by Israel: 1.
South Sudan's secession from Arab-led Sudan in 2011 after a bloody civil war decreased Sudan's territory by almost half. Sudan is a member of the Arab League while South Sudan did not enter membership. Arabic also is not an official language of South Sudan. Arabization of Malays was criticized by Sultan Ibrahim Ismail of Johor. [108]
The Shatt al-Arab dispute was a territorial dispute that took place in the Shatt al-Arab region from 1936 until 1975. The Shatt al-Arab was considered an important channel for the oil exports of both Iran and Iraq , and in 1937, Iran and the newly independent Iraq signed a treaty to settle the dispute.
The Muslim conquest of the Maghreb (Arabic: فَتْحُ اَلْمَغْرِب, romanized: Fath al-Maghrib, lit. 'Conquest of the West') or Arab conquest of North Africa by the Rashidun and Umayyad Caliphates commenced in 647 and concluded in 709, when the Byzantine Empire lost its last remaining strongholds to Caliph Al-Walid I.