List of modern conflicts in the Middle East: Difference between revisions

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| align=center | 1902–1932
| [[Unification of Saudi Arabia]] {{ref|a|[a]}}
| {{Flagicon image|Flag of the Second Saudi State.svg}} [[Emirate of Riyadh|Riyadh]]<br />{{Flagicon image|Flag of Hejaz 1917.svg}} [[Kingdom of Hejaz|Hejaz]]<br />{{Flagicon image|Flag of Kuwait 1921-1940.png}} [[Sheikhdom of Kuwait|Kuwait]],<br />{{Flagicon image|Flag of Nejd (1926).svg}} [[Sultanate of Nejd|Nejd]],<br />{{flagicon|Jordan}} [[Emirate of Transjordan|Transjordan]],<br />{{flagicon|Iraq|1924}} [[Mandatory Iraq]]<br />{{Flagicon image|Flag of Nejd (1926).svg}} [[Kingdom of Nejd and Hejaz|Nejd and Hejaz]]
| align=right data-sort-value="8000" | 8,000–9,000
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|[[Middle Eastern theatre of World War I]] {{ref|p|[p]}}
|{{Flagicon image|Flag of Persia (1910).svg}} [[Qajar dynasty|Persia]]<br />{{Flagicon image|Flag of Egypt (1882-1922).svg}} [[Sultanate of Egypt|Egypt]]
{{Flagicon image|Flag of the Second Saudi State.svg}} [[Emirate of Nejd and Hasa|Nejd and Hasa]]<br />{{Flagicon image|Flag of the Emirate of Ha'il.svg}} [[Emirate of Jabal Shammar|Jabal Shammar]]<br />{{Flagicon image|Flag of Kuwait 1921-1940.png}} [[Sheikhdom of Kuwait|Kuwait]],<br />{{Flagicon image|Flag of the Sultanate of Lahej.svg}} [[Sultanate of Lahej|Lahej]]<br />{{flag|Ottoman Empire}}<br />{{Flagicon image|Flag of the Democratic Republic of Armenia.svg}} [[First Republic of Armenia|Armenia]]<br />{{Flagicon image|Flag of Azerbaijan.svg}} [[Azerbaijan Democratic Republic|Azerbaijan]]
| align=right data-sort-value="2825000" | '''Ottoman Empire deaths including civilians:'''<br>2,825,000<ref name="Military Casualties-World War-Estimated,">Statistics Branch, GS, War Department, 25 February 1924; cited in ''World War I: People, Politics, and Power'', published by Britannica Educational Publishing (2010) Page 219.</ref><ref name="Totten, Samuel 2008, p. 19">Totten, Samuel, Paul Robert Bartrop, Steven L. Jacobs (eds.) ''Dictionary of Genocide''. Greenwood Publishing Group, 2008, p. 19. {{ISBN|978-0-313-34642-2}}.</ref><ref>Poteri narodonaseleniia v : spravochnik. Moscow. {{ISBN|978-5-93165-107-1}}. Pages 61, 65, 73, 77 and 78</ref>–5,000,000<ref name="100years">James L. Gelvin, ''The Israel–Palestine Conflict: One Hundred Years of War'', Publisher: Cambridge University Press {{ISBN|978-0-521-61804-5}} Page 77</ref><br>'''Allied (Ottomankilled, Empirewounded, deathscaptured including civilians).or missing:'''<br>1,000,000–1,500,000 {{citation needed|date=September 2014}}<br>'''Persians (Allieddied killedby famine or disease, woundedexcluding influenza:'''<br>2,000,000<ref>{{harvnb|Katouzian|2013|p=1934}}:</ref><ref>{{harvnb|Rubin|2015|p=508}}: captured"Despite Iran’s official neutrality, this pattern of interference continued during World War I as Ottoman-, Russian-, British-, and German-supported local forces fought across Iran, wreaking enormous havoc on the country. With farmland, crops, livestock, and infrastructure destroyed, as many as 2 million Iranians died of famine at the war’s end. Although the Russian Revolution of 1917 led to the recall of Russian troops, and thus gave hope to Iranians that the foreign yoke might be relenting, the British quickly moved to fill the vacuum in the north, and by 1918, had turned the country into an unofficial protectorate."</ref><ref>{{harvnb|Ward|2014|p=123}}: "As the Great War came to its close in the fall of 1918, Iran’s plight was woeful. The war had created an economic catastrophe, invading armies had ruined farmland and irrigation works, crops and livestock were stolen or missing)destroyed, and peasants had been taken from their fields and forced to serve as laborers in the variousarmies. Famine killed as many as two million Iranians out of a population of little more than ten million."</ref>
2,000,000 (Persians died by famine or disease, excluding influenza)<ref>{{harvnb|Katouzian|2013|p=1934}}:</ref><ref>{{harvnb|Rubin|2015|p=508}}: "Despite Iran’s official neutrality, this pattern of interference continued during World War I as Ottoman-, Russian-, British-, and German-supported local forces fought across Iran, wreaking enormous havoc on the country. With farmland, crops, livestock, and infrastructure destroyed, as many as 2 million Iranians died of famine at the war’s end. Although the Russian Revolution of 1917 led to the recall of Russian troops, and thus gave hope to Iranians that the foreign yoke might be relenting, the British quickly moved to fill the vacuum in the north, and by 1918, had turned the country into an unofficial protectorate."</ref><ref>{{harvnb|Ward|2014|p=123}}: "As the Great War came to its close in the fall of 1918, Iran’s plight was woeful. The war had created an economic catastrophe, invading armies had ruined farmland and irrigation works, crops and livestock were stolen or destroyed, and peasants had been taken from their fields and forced to serve as laborers in the variousarmies. Famine killed as many as two million Iranians out of a population of little more than ten million."</ref>
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| align=center | 1918–1922
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| align="center" | 1925–1927
|[[Great Syrian Revolt]] (Druze War)<ref name="warstat6">{{cite web|url=http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/warstat6.htm|title=Twentieth Century Atlas – Death Tolls|publisher=Users.erols.com|date=July 2005|accessdate=1 February 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101227013646/http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/warstat6.htm|archive-date=27 December 2010|url-status=live}}</ref>
|{{Flagicon image|Lebanese French flag.svg}} [[Greater Lebanon]]<br />{{flagicon image|Flag of Syria French mandate.svg}} [[State of Syria (1924–1930)|State of Syria]]<br />[[File:Flag of Jabal ad-Druze (state).svg|23px]] [[Jabal al-Druze (state)|Jabal Druze]]<br />{{flagicon image|Latakiya-sanjak-Alawite-state-French-colonial-flag.svg}} [[Alawite State]]
| align="right" data-sort-value="8000" | 8,000–12,000
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| 2019–2020
| [[2019–2020 Persian Gulf crisis]]
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