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British foreign policy in the Middle East has involved multiple considerations, particularly over the last two and a half centuries. These included maintaining access to British India, blocking Russian or French threats to that access, protecting the Suez Canal, supporting the declining Ottoman Empire against Russian threats, guaranteeing an oil supply after 1900 from Middle East fields ...
[180] [181] He personally led his fasa'il and carried out nighttime attacks against British targets in the revolt's early stage in 1936. When the revolt was renewed in April 1937, he established a more organised command hierarchy consisting of four main brigades who operated in the north-central highlands (Tulkarm-Nablus-Jenin area).
In 1918, an anti-British rebellion took place in the Iraqi city of Najaf, which is often seen as a precursor to the 1920 Iraqi revolt. [12]After the Peace Treaty of Versailles in 1919 after World War I, the idea put forward by the League of Nations to create mandates for the territories that the defeated Central Powers had occupied began to take shape.
(2) alliance with a great power external to the Middle East; (3) non-recognition of the existence of a Palestine national entity; (4) Zionism's civilising mission in an undeveloped area; (5) economic, social and cultural segregation as prerequisites for the renaissance of Jewish national life; (6) the concept of 'peace from strength'. [19]
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Middle East Countries (2018) 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 *Not a UN member This is a list of modern conflicts in the Middle East ...
1857: The Indian rebellion against British East India Company, marking the end of Mughal rule in India. Also known as the 1857 War of Independence and, particularly in the West, the Sepoy Mutiny. 1858: The Mahtra War in Estonia. 1858: Pecija's First Revolt, in Ottoman Bosnia. 1858–61: The War of the Reform in Mexico.
An 1892 map of Arabia denoting the Pirate Coast. The term was first used by the English around the 17th century and acquired its name from the raiding activities that Al Qawasim pursued against British merchantmen. The charge of piracy has been disputed by historians and archivists in the UAE in particular.
The Middle East was essential to the British Empire, so Germany and Italy worked to undermine British influence there. Hitler allied with the Muslim leader Amin al-Husseini—in exile since he participated in the 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine—as part of promoting Arab nationalism to destabilize regional British control.