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Welcome to the Middle Eastern military history task force. If you have any questions about articles or are generally seeking advice, you're encouraged to ask at the main military history talk page, or you can directly approach one of the task force participants below. The coordinators of the Military history WikiProject can be contacted here. Scope This task force covers the entire military history of the broad region known as the Middle East, from the earliest civilizations in the area (e.g. the Mesopotamian and ancient Egyptian) to the present day. It includes the military histories of all Middle Eastern groups and states, as well as military activity in the Middle East by external powers. Any article related to this task force should be marked by adding Middle-Eastern-task-force=yes or Middle-Eastern=y to the {{WPMILHIST}} project banner at the top of its talk page (see the project banner instructions for more details on the exact syntax). This will automatically place it into Category:Middle Eastern military history task force articles.

Participants

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1. Abo Yemen (talk · contribs) (Yemeni and South Arabian topics)
2. Al Ameer son (talk · contribs)
3. Alain08 (talk · contribs) (Lebanese Armed Forces topics)
4. Ammar shaker (talk · contribs) (Ottoman Empire & Middle Easten States)
5. Cplakidas (talk · contribs) (Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine, early Islamic and Ottoman periods)
6. CsikosLo (talk · contribs) (Byzantine Empire, modern Arab armies)
7. Malik Shabazz (talk · contribs)
8. Neddyseagoon (talk · contribs)
9. Nostalgia of Iran (talk · contribs) (Persian dynasties)
10. Poliocretes (talk · contribs) (Israel related subjects plus ancient history and archaeology)
11. The Gnome (talk · contribs) (The topic is about the single most significant destabilising factor of world peace today. Wikipedia can contribute, admittedly in a small capacity, towards somehow resolving the conflict by presenting the convergence of input from people interested on the subject. The task of handling it in a NPOV-way necessarily brings everyone's POV into focus. I could bring to this task a rather extensive knowledge on the history of the region and the conflict, and as much objectivity as I can. (The latter is, of course, a subjective statement.) If I could just make the time.)
12. Timeshifter (talk · contribs)
13. Iazyges (talk · contribs) Mostly Roman and Byzantine.
14. Bakulisko pei (talk · contribs)

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Article statistics

The table to the right shows the current article assessment statistics for this task force. A list of the top 500 most popular articles within our scope, as well as the number of page views each article received over the past month, can be found here. With most of our articles assessed as Stub- or Start-Class, there's a lot of work to be done. However, we also have a number of good, A-Class, and featured articles, which have been assessed as amongst the best Wikipedia has to offer. These article serve as a yardstick for what can be achieved and should be aimed for, and can provide ideas about how to write an article and what sources to consult; they are listed below: Featured articles Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan Ibn al-Ash'ath Abu Nidal Acra (fortress) Al-Adid Ahmose I Alexander II Zabinas Anbar campaign (2003–2011) Antiochus XII Dionysus Yasser Arafat Balfour Declaration Battle of Azaz (1030) 1994 Black Hawk shootdown incident The Boys from Baghdad High Byzantine navy The Dark Pictures Anthology: House of Ashes Killing of Muhammad al-Durrah Antiochus XI Epiphanes Demetrius III Eucaerus Antiochus X Eusebes Fakhr al-Din II Fatimid conquest of Egypt Greece runestones Al-Hafiz International Conference on the Holocaust and Genocide Battle of Khafji Hasan al-Kharrat Henry Macandrew Marcian Marwan I Mu'awiya I Al-Mu'tadid Al-Mu'tasim Muhammad ibn Tughj al-Ikhshid Mukhtar al-Thaqafi Battle of Musa Qala Al-Muti' Nizar ibn al-Mustansir Parthian Empire Philip I Philadelphus Raymond III, Count of Tripoli Russian occupations of Beirut Salih ibn Mirdas Sayf al-Dawla Second Crusade Second Fitna Sulayman ibn Abd al-Malik Tiberius III Unas Al-Walid I Yazid I Zufar ibn al-Harith al-Kilabi A-Class articles Ahmad ibn Tulun Arab–Byzantine wars Arrow (missile family) Auxilia Battle of Artemisium Battle of Kapetron Battle of Andrassos Battle of Fakhkh Battles of the Kinarot Valley Byzantine–Sasanian War of 602–628 Camp Chapman attack Tim Cross Fatimid invasion of Egypt (914–915) Battle of Ismailia Junayd of Aydın Egyptian–Libyan War M22 Locust Battle of Marathon Operation Mole Cricket 19 North Yemen civil war Operation Pleshet Roman–Persian Wars Safavid occupation of Basra Al-Wathiq Good articles Second Persian invasion of Greece 6th Airborne Division in Palestine 15th (Imperial Service) Cavalry Brigade 69 Squadron (Israel) 1585 Ottoman expedition against the Druze 1963 Syrian coup d'état 1966 Syrian coup d'état 1982 kidnapping of Iranian diplomats Aaron (son of Ivan Vladislav) Abbas II of Persia Abd Allah ibn al-Zubayr Abdullah II of Jordan Abu Abdallah al-Baridi Abu Firas al-Hamdani Ali Abu Nuwar Abu Sa'id al-Jannabi Abu Taghlib Ahi Ayna Ahmad ibn Tulun Aimery of Cyprus Ali-Qoli Khan Qajar Ali ibn al-Fadl al-Jayshani Ali of Dulkadir Alid revolt of 762–763 Amenhotep I Amir al-ʿarab Al-Amir bi-Ahkam Allah Amr ibn al-As Ariarathes I of Cappadocia Arrow (missile family) Arsaces I of Parthia Artabanus I of Parthia Artaxerxes III Ottoman ironclad Asar-i Şevket Asar-i Şevket-class ironclad Ashurbanipal Assaf dynasty Assassination of Iranian nuclear scientists Auckland Mounted Rifles Regiment Ottoman ironclad Avnillah Avnillah-class ironclad Battle of Ayn al-Warda Ayyubid dynasty Ottoman ironclad Aziziye Babylonian revolts (484 BC) Nasib al-Bakri Banu Kalb Battle of Artemisium Battle of Fort Lahtzanit Battle of Kapetron Battle of Karameh Battle of Plataea Battle of the Chinese Farm Battle of Alexandretta Battle of Andrassos Battle of Apamea Battle of Badr Battle of Fakhkh Battle of Hama Battle of Khazir Battle of Marj Rahit (684) Battle of Maskin Battle of Nahrawan Battle of Tawahin Battle of Thermopylae Battle of al-Mada'in Battles of the Kinarot Valley Battle of Beersheba (1917) Battle of Beirut (1912) Operation Bertram Bethlehem Al-Birwa Black September Bloody Thursday (Bahrain) Busr ibn Abi Artat Byzantine–Sasanian War of 602–628 Byzantine Empire under the Komnenos dynasty Citadel of Erbil Citadel of Damascus Bill Clinton Constantine V Tim Cross Operation Dada Idi Constantine Dalassenos (duke of Antioch) Sack of Damietta (853) Ashraf Dehghani Demolition of al-Baqi Destruction of cultural heritage during the Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip John Doukas (sebastokrator) Operation Eastern Exit EL/M-2080 Green Pine Siege of Erivan (1804) Fakhr al-Mulk Ridwan Fatimid invasion of Egypt (914–915) Fatimid invasion of Egypt (919–921) Fatimid navy Feth-i Bülend-class ironclad First Persian invasion of Greece First Qarmatian invasion of Egypt Battles of Fort Budapest Fourth Fitna Third Battle of Gaza Gökböri Greco-Persian Wars Abd al-Rahim al-Hajj Muhammad Ottoman ironclad Hamidiye Hananu Revolt Al-Hasan al-A'sam Yasin al-Hashimi Ibn Hawshab Hejaz Air Force Heraclius Hezbollah Homs Hormizd I Hormizd IV Hossein Ali Mirza Hugh of Fauquembergues Husayn ibn Hamdan Ottoman ironclad Iclaliye Battle of the Indus Invasion of Darfur Iran–Contra affair Irghiz River skirmish Irtash Isa ibn Muhanna Isa ibn al-Shaykh al-Shaybani Isaac I Komnenos Ishaq ibn Kundaj Battle of Ismailia Iyad ibn Ghanm Al-Jarrah ibn Abdallah Jenin refugee camp Jovian (emperor) Juansher Junayd of Aydın Kandahar massacre Kavad I Khalid ibn Barmak Khanjar Khumarawayh ibn Ahmad ibn Tulun Khurshid of Tabaristan Battle of Kırkdilim Kisrawan campaigns (1292–1305) Isaac Komnenos (brother of Alexios I) Krak des Chevaliers Siege of Lankaran Battles of Latrun (1948) T. E. Lawrence Egyptian–Libyan War M22 Locust Ottoman ironclad Lütf-ü Celil Lütf-ü Celil-class ironclad Battle of Magdhaba Ottoman ironclad Mahmudiye Mushegh I Mamikonian Al-Ma'mun al-Bata'ihi Mansur ibn Lu'lu' Battle of Marathon Maslama ibn Abd al-Malik Maurice (emperor) Battle of Maysalun Middle East Command Camouflage Directorate Mithridates I of Parthia Mohammad Khan Tokhmaq Ustajlu Operation Mole Cricket 19 Mongol conquest of the Qara Khitai Mufarrij ibn Daghfal ibn al-Jarrah Al-Muhallab ibn Abi Sufra Muhanna ibn Isa Ottoman ironclad Muin-i Zafer Ottoman ironclad Mukaddeme-i Hayir Al-Muktafi Mulhim Ma'n Usama ibn Munqidh Mus'ab ibn al-Zubayr Nasir al-Dawla Nasr ibn Sayyar Shibl al-Dawla Nasr Gamal Abdel Nasser NATO Nebuchadnezzar III Nebuchadnezzar IV Ottoman ironclad Necm-i Şevket Abu Ali Iyad North Yemen civil war Numayrid dynasty Operation Badr (1973) Operation Pleshet Ottoman ironclad Orhaniye Orodes I of Parthia Orodes II Ottoman ironclad Osmaniye Osmaniye-class ironclad Pacorus I Palestinian fedayeen Peasants' revolt in Palestine Peroz I Perso-Turkic war of 627–629 Phraates I Phraates III Phraates IV Pons, Count of Tripoli Ptolemy I Soter Abdollah Mirza Qajar Qarmatian invasion of Iraq Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Qutayba ibn Muslim Al-Rahba Raymond II, Count of Tripoli Reza Qoli Mirza Afshar Ridwan ibn Walakhshi Battle of Romani Sa'd al-Dawla Sack of Mecca Sack of Shamakhi Safavid Georgia Safavid occupation of Basra Samson Sargon II Schneller Orphanage Tanyus Shahin Shahrbaraz Siege of Shaizar Battle of Sharon Siege of Jerusalem (636–637) Siege of Mecca (683) Siege of Mecca (692) Siege of Nicaea (727) Siege of Tyana Simele massacre Special Air Service Regiment State communications in the Neo-Assyrian Empire Suleiman I of Candar Sîn-šumu-līšir Tahmasp I Theodosius I Thutmose I Capture of Tiberias (1918) Third Transjordan attack Uthman ibn Abi al-As Vardanes I Varsken War of the Antiochene Succession Al-Wathiq World War II Battle of the Yarmuk Yazdegerd II Zahir al-Umar Zayn al-Din Qaraja Ziyad ibn Abihi Gilbert de Lacy

Middle Eastern military history task force assessment statistics Articles Lists FA 52 FL 0 A 24 AL 0 GA 249     B 781 BL 13 C 2,366 CL 62 Start 3,787 List 222 Stub 1,116     Total 8,375 Total 297 Other pages Category 2,097 Disambig 61 Draft 24 File 122 Portal 0 Project 2 Redirect 338 SIA 16 Template 357 User 2 Total 3,019 Unassessed 0 Statistics ω 39,357 Ω 4.538 category

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Cleanup needed

• Zubayr ibn al-Awam, grammar clean up and some broken link fix will be appreciated Ahendra (talk) 07:52, 16 November 2021 (UTC)

Requested articles

Scytho-Cimmerian invasions of Caucasus and the Ancient Near East • Legion of the Orient • Lebanese First Sharp Shooters Unit • Lebanese Third Sharp Shooters Regiment • First Battle of Ai • Second Battle of Ai • Battle of Gibeon • Hittite-Egyptian Conflict • Khamis Mishait • South Yemen War of Independence • Hod Hahanit • Operation Biglift • Taourint • Thirty Committee • Battle of Ain al Jurr • Lebanese Airborne Regiment • Moukafaha • Kouwa el-Dareba • Jounieh Naval Base • Elias Abou Sleiman military base • Ghassan Ramman military base • Shikri Ghanem military base • Henry Chehab military base • Lebanese Army Special Forces School • Battle of al-Malkiyya (1948) (or Battle of Malkieh (1948)) • Battle of Souk el-Gharb (August 13, 1989) • LAF-GS-ER2 • LAF-GS-ER3 • Shawqi Al Masri • Ahmad Arab • Antranik Tatoussian • Victor Charles • Lebanese Air Force Museum • IAF Attack on the Lebanese Independent Construction Regiment during War 2006 • Lebanese Army Day • Damascus Military Academy • Antony's Armenian campaign • 1992 Taşdelen attack • Battle of Kulp • Free Raqqa Brigade • October 2008 Aktütün attack • Badia Hawks Brigade • Free Arima Battalion • Banyan al-Marsous operations room • 2016 Diyarbakir campaign • Siege of Varto • Sadr uprising (1980) (currently redirect) • Battle of Jaar and al-Husn (2011) • Battle of Shuqra • Battle of Azzan • Battle of al-Rawdah • Battle of Hawta • March 2012 Lahij attack • 2014 Shabwah offensive • December 2009 Shabwah airstrike (draft) • Battle of Huta (2010) • Killing of British tourists in Yemen • Al-Qaeda Emirate in Yemen • Jama’at al-Tawhid wal-Jihad • Jund al Islam • Iran–United States proxy conflict • Foreign volunteers in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War

Expansion needed

Battle of Nineveh (612 BC) • Battle of Carchemish • Kuwaiti oil fires • Iraqi Republican Guard • Battle of the Nobles • Lebanese Commando Regiment • Republican Guard Brigade (Lebanon) • Lebanese Air Force • Lebanese Navy • Lebanese Special Operations Command • Lebanese Army Military Academy • Beirut Naval Base • Rene Mouawad Air Base • History section on Lebanese Armed Forces • Arz missile • Homs Military Academy • Free Sunnis of Baalbek Brigade • Tal Afar offensive (2017) • Fall of Baiji • 2008 Kufra conflict • Euphrates Liberation Brigade • Al-Tanf offensive (2016) • Al Sulayyil ballistic missile base • Al-Watah ballistic missile base • Operation Muslim ibn Aqil

Images needed

ASN-209

Merging needed

Hilalian invasion of Ifriqiya with Antarah ibn Shaddad(discuss in talk page if needed)

Citations needed

United Nations Security Council Resolution 678 • Arab Liberation Army

Translation needed

Hurqus ibn Zuhayr as-Sa'di

Article alerts

Did you know

• 10 Sep 2024 – Hugh Bunel (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Dumelow (t · c); see discussion
• 02 Sep 2024 – Destruction of cultural heritage during the Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Richard Nevell (t · c); see discussion
• 14 Aug 2024 – Egyptian Labour Corps mutinies (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Dumelow (t · c); see discussion
• 29 Jul 2024 – Battle of Tinzaouaten (2024) (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Chomik1129 (t · c); see discussion
• 18 Jul 2024 – Masada myth (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Onceinawhile (t · c); see discussion

Articles for deletion

• 05 Sep 2024 – Battle of Algami Canal (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Chidgk1 (t · c); see discussion (1 participant; relisted)
• 03 Sep 2024 – Safavid Capture of Mesopotamia (1623-1624) (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Robert McClenon (t · c) was closed as delete by Explicit (t · c) on 10 Sep 2024; see discussion (12 participants)

Categories for discussion

• 05 Sep 2024 – Category:Women in war in the Middle East (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Marcocapelle (t · c); see discussion

Redirects for discussion

• 03 Sep 2024 – Israel Palestine (talk · edit · hist) →Israeli–Palestinian conflict was RfDed by Godsy (t · c); see discussion
• 03 Sep 2024 – Palestine Israel (talk · edit · hist) →Israeli–Palestinian conflict was RfDed by Godsy (t · c); see discussion

A-Class review

• undated – List of aviation shootdowns and accidents during the Iraq War (talk · edit · hist) was put up for A-Class review

Good article nominees

• 10 Aug 2024 – Charles Keating IV (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by 98.97.34.98 (t · c); start discussion
• 10 Aug 2024 – Tel al-Sultan attack (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Personisinsterest (t · c); start discussion
• 26 Jul 2024 – Battle of Mosul (2016–2017) (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Kaliforniyka (t · c); start discussion
• 09 Apr 2024 – Mohammad Shah Qajar (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Amir Ghandi (t · c); start discussion

Good article reassessments

• 25 Aug 2024 – Battle of Plataea (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for GA reassessment by Z1720 (t · c); see discussion
• 23 Aug 2024 – Battle of the Yarmuk (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for GA reassessment by Z1720 (t · c); see discussion

Requested moves

• 12 Sep 2024 – Iranian Revolution (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Iranian revolution by Cinderella157 (t · c); see discussion
• 29 Aug 2024 – Tel Aviv–Jerusalem bus 405 suicide attack (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Tel Aviv–Jerusalem bus 405 hijacking by FourPi (t · c); see discussion
• 13 Aug 2024 – Israel–Hamas war (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Israel–Gaza war by Makeandtoss (t · c); see discussion
• undated – 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved
• 01 Sep 2024 – 2024 Varzaqan helicopter crash (talk · edit · hist) move request to Varzaqan helicopter crash by Cmsth11126a02 (t · c) was not moved; see discussion
• 01 Sep 2024 – 2024 Israeli military operation in the northern West Bank (talk · edit · hist) move request to 2024 Israeli military operation in the West Bank by Genabab (t · c) was moved to 2024 Israeli military operation in the West Bank (talk · edit · hist) by Frost (t · c) on 08 Sep 2024; see discussion
• 29 Aug 2024 – Use of human shields by Hamas (talk · edit · hist) move request to Allegations that Hamas use human shields by FourPi (t · c) was not moved; see discussion
• 25 Aug 2024 – 2024 Red Sea oil spill (talk · edit · hist) move request somewhere else by Chomik1129 (t · c) was moved to Attacks on the Sounion (talk · edit · hist) by Bensci54 (t · c) on 09 Sep 2024; see discussion

Articles to be merged

• 16 Aug 2024 – November 2019 Israeli missile strikes in Syria (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Iran–Israel conflict during the Syrian civil war by Longhornsg (t · c); see discussion
• 16 Aug 2024 – December 2014 Rif Dimashq airstrikes (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Iran–Israel conflict during the Syrian civil war by Longhornsg (t · c); see discussion
• 16 Aug 2024 – May 2013 Rif Dimashq airstrikes (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Iran–Israel conflict during the Syrian civil war by Longhornsg (t · c); see discussion
• 16 Aug 2024 – January 2013 Rif Dimashq airstrike (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Iran–Israel conflict during the Syrian civil war by Longhornsg (t · c); see discussion
• 11 Aug 2024 – Islamic State insurgency in Deir ez-Zor (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Talk:Deir ez-Zor campaign (2017–2019) by Longhornsg (t · c); see discussion
• 03 Aug 2024 – Bayandor-class Corvettes (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Bayandor-class corvette by MKFI (t · c); see discussion
• 12 Jun 2024 – Legio (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Lajjun by Onceinawhile (t · c); see discussion
• 16 May 2024 – Action of 10 May 1915 (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Action of 10 May 1915 by Klbrain (t · c); see discussion
• 15 May 2024 – Jaish-e-Mohammed (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Al-Akhtar Trust by Saqib (t · c); see discussion
• 23 Apr 2024 – Nasser Hospital mass graves (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Nasser Hospital siege by MicrobiologyMarcus (t · c); see discussion

Articles to be split

• 12 Apr 2024 – Al-Shifa Hospital siege (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Dylanvt (t · c); see discussion
• 07 Feb 2022 – Foreign fighters in the Syrian Civil War and War in Iraq (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Buidhe (t · c); see discussion

Articles for creation

• 04 Jul 2024 – Draft:Mohammad Hyasat (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Makeandtoss (t · c)

Resources

• Frères d’Armes 255 dossier : Liban
• http://www.lebarmy.gov.lb/English
• http://www.haigazian.edu.lb/rocket.jsp

• Fisk, Robert. Pity the Nation: The Abduction of Lebanon.

See also

• WikiProject Israel (noticeboard)
• WikiProject Palestine (noticeboard)
• WikiProject Lebanon

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