Ikhwan raids on Transjordan
Ikhwan raids on Transjordan | |||||||||
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Part of the Unification of Saudi Arabia | |||||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||||
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Support: | ||||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
Faisal al-Duwaish |
Abdullah I Minwer Shtewi Al-Hadid | ||||||||
Strength | |||||||||
1,500 raiders (1922) 3,000–4,000[1] or 4,500[2] camel raiders | Unknown | ||||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||||
500+[2] killed (1924) | 130 tribesmen killed or wounded (1924)[1] | ||||||||
Population of two small villages massacred[3] |
Ikhwan raids on Transjordan were a series of attacks by the
Background
With the defeat of the Hashemites in the Nejd-Hejaz War of 1919, and a failure to establish a Hashemite domain over greater Syria, the British hoped to secure Transjordan and Iraq as Hashemite Kingdoms, and did put a significant effort to secure them from external and internal threats. The military assistance of the British to
First major raid
The
Second major raid
In August 1924, a larger Ikhwan militia force, numbering some 4,500 raiders,[2] travelled 1,600 kilometers from Najd (in modern-day Saudi Arabia) to attack Transjordan, a British protectorate. Fifteen kilometers south of Amman, the raiders engaged again with the villages of Bani Sakhr, when they were attacked by the British Royal Air Force (RAF). The Ikhwan army suffered heavy casualties, with the death toll reaching 500.[2] The raided villages suffered 130 dead.
Aftermath
Other
See also
- Sultan bin Najad
- Kuwait-Najd Border War
- Uqair Protocol of 1922
- Saudi Arabian National Guard
- List of modern conflicts in the Middle East
- List of wars involving Saudi Arabia
References
- ^ ISBN 9781845111380. Retrieved 2015-05-14.
- ^ a b c d Noel Joseph Guckian. British Relations with Trans-Jordan, 1920–1930. University College of Wales, Aberystwyth. PhD Thesis: pp. 217–218. May 1985.
- ^ a b Peter W. Wilson, Douglas Graham. Saudi Arabia: The Coming Storm. M. E. Sharpe, 1994: p. 143.
- ^ a b c Salibi, Kamal S. The modern history of Jordan. p. 104.
- ISBN 978-1-84885-013-2.)
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- ^ Peter W. Wilson, Douglas Graham. Saudi Arabia: the coming storm . M. E. Sharpe, 1994: p.45.