Modern wars · 1973
October War (Ramadan War)
Egypt crossed the Suez Canal on 10 Ramadan. King Faisal's oil embargo followed, and the war led to the Egypt Israel peace treaty of 1979.
Key facts
- When
- 1973
- Where
- Suez Canal and the Golan
- Sides
- Egypt and Syria vs Israel
- Commanders
- Anwar Sadat and Hafez al-Assad vs Golda Meir
- Result
- Early Arab gains, then Israeli recovery
- Type
- Modern wars
- Chapter
- 7. The Modern Muslim World
The wider picture: Nation states and modern wars
Most Muslim lands won independence between the 1920s and the 1960s. Since then the region has seen more war than almost anywhere else: Israel's wars with its neighbours, two Afghan wars, the Iran Iraq war, American wars in Iraq, civil wars in Syria and Yemen, and in 2026 a war on Iran.
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