List of wars involving Saudi Arabia

This is a list of wars that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and its predecessor states have been involved.

Emirate of Diriyah

Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Result Monarch Saudi losses
Ibn Ufaisan's Invasion
(1793)
Diriyah Kuwait
Great Britain
Defeat
  • Saudi retreat from Kuwait.
Abdul-Aziz bin Muhammad
~?
Battle of Khakeekera[1]
(1811)
Diriyah Bahrain
Kuwait
Defeat
  • Invasion of Bahrain repelled.
Abdullah bin Saud
~300
Egyptian–Wahhabi War
(1811–1818)
Diriyah Egypt Eyalet Defeat
~11,000

Emirate of Nejd

Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Result Monarch Saudi losses
Rebellion against Egypt
(1821–1824)
Nejd Egypt Eyalet Victory
Turki bin Abdullah bin Muhammad
?
Nejd Civil War
(18651875)
Supporters of Rahman Supporters of Saud Victory to Saud's forces
  • Exile of Rahman, Saud becomes Imam.
Saud bin Faisal bin Turki
?
Al-Hasa Expedition[2][3]
(1870-1871)
Nejd Ottoman Empire
Kuwait
Defeat
?
Battle of Mulayda
(1891)
Nejd Jabal Shammar Defeat
Abdul Rahman bin Faisal
?

Emirate of Nejd and Hasa

Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Result Monarch Saudi losses
First Saudi–Rashidi War
(1903–1907)
Nejd and Hasa Jabal Shammar
Ottoman Empire
Victory
  • Saudi takeover of central and northern Arabia.
Ibn Saud
At least 937
Battle of Hadia[5]
(1910)
Nejd and Hasa
Kuwait
Al-Muntafiq Victory
  • Defeat of the Al Muntafiq tribe.
?
Conquest of al-Hasa
(1913)
Nejd and Hasa
Ikhwan
Ottoman Empire Victory
  • Incorporation of al-Hasa into Saudi Arabia.
?
Battle of Jarrab
(1915)
Nejd and Hasa Jabal Shammar Defeat
?
First Saudi-Hashemite War
(19181919)
Nejd and Hasa
Ikhwan
Hejaz Victory
  • Hashemite land cessions.
?
Kuwait–Najd War
(19191920)
Nejd and Hasa
Ikhwan
Kuwait Defeat
  • Ikhwan retreat from Kuwait.
?
Second Saudi–Rashidi War
(1921)
Nejd and Hasa Jabal Shammar Victory
?

Sultanate of Nejd

Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Result Monarch Saudi losses
Second Saudi-Hashemite War
(19241925)
Nejd
Ikhwan
Hejaz Victory
  • Incorporation of Hejaz.
Ibn Saud
?

Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd

Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Result Monarch Saudi losses
Ikhwan Revolt
(19271930)
Hejaz and Nejd
Kuwait
 United Kingdom
Ikhwan Victory
  • Ikhwan defeat.
Ibn Saud
At least 700

Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Result Monarch Saudi losses
Saudi–Yemeni War
(1934)
Saudi Arabia Yemen Victory
  • Yemeni invasion of Saudi Arabia repelled.
Ibn Saud
?
First Arab-Israeli War
(19481949)
Egypt Egypt
 Iraq
Jordan Transjordan
Syria Syria
 Lebanon
Saudi Arabia
HWA
Arab League ALA
 Israel Defeat
?
North Yemen Civil War
(19621965)
Kingdom of Yemen
 Saudi Arabia
 Egypt
Yemen Arab Republic
Defeat
  • Saudi Arabia stopped supplying the royalists.
Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud
~1,000 soldiers
and civilians
Al-Wadiah War
(1969)
 Saudi Arabia  South Yemen Victory
  • al-Wadiah reoccupied by Saudi forces.
?
Ramadan War
(1973)
 Egypt
 Syria
Iraq Iraq
 Jordan
 Algeria
Morocco Morocco
 Saudi Arabia
 Cuba
 Israel Defeat[6]
None
Grand Mosque Seizure
(1979)
 Saudi Arabia Ikhwan Victory
Khalid bin Abdulaziz Al Saud
127 soldiers
11 civilians
Gulf War
(19901991)
 Kuwait
United States
 United Kingdom
 Saudi Arabia
 France
 Canada
 Egypt
 Syria
 Oman
 Pakistan
 UAE
 Qatar
 Australia
Others
Iraq Victory
Fahd bin Abdulaziz Al Saud
24 soldiers
1 civilian
Operation Scorched Earth
(2009–2010)
 Yemen
 Saudi Arabia
 Jordan
 Morocco
Houthis Indecisive
  • Houthis consolidate control over Sa'dah.
Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud
133 soldiers
4 civilians
Intervention against ISIS
(2014)
 Iraq
 Iraqi Kurdistan
Free Syrian Army
Syrian Kurdistan
United States
 United Kingdom
 Jordan
 Turkey
 Morocco
 Australia
 Belgium
 Canada
 Denmark
 France
 Bahrain
 Qatar
 Saudi Arabia
 UAE
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant Islamic State
al-Nusra Front
Khorasan
Ongoing
  • Unilateral US-Arab intervention against Syrian Islamists.
3 soldiers
Intervention in Yemen
(2015)
Yemen Hadi government
People's Democratic Republic of Yemen Southern Movement
 Saudi Arabia
 UAE
 Bahrain
 Kuwait
 Qatar
 Jordan
 Morocco
 Sudan
 Egypt
 Senegal
Yemen Houthi government

Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant Ansar al-Sharia


Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant Islamic State

Ongoing
Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud
429 soldiers[8]
~400 civilians[8]

References

  1. ar:معركة خكيكرة
  2. ar:عبد الله الثاني الصباح#cite note-2
  3. Abu-Hakima, Ahmad Mustafa. "The Expedition Route, Midhat Pasha in Al-Hasa, Kuwait's Role in the Ottoman Expedition 1871-1873, Abd Allah's Direct Role in the War." The Modern History of Kuwait, 1750-1965. London: Luzac &, 1983. 85-89. Print.
  4. Gábor Ágoston; Bruce Alan Masters (2009-01-01). Encyclopedia of the Ottoman Empire. Infobase Publishing. pp. 320–321. ISBN 978-1-4381-1025-7. Retrieved 2013-05-20.
  5. ar:معركة هدية
  6. References:
  7. Loyola, Mario (7 October 2013). "How We Used to Do It - American diplomacy in the". National Review. p. 1. Retrieved 2 December 2013.
  8. 1 2 Yemen’s guerrilla war tests military ambitions of big-spending Saudis

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