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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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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 Byzantine–Sasanian War of 602–628 Camp Chapman attack Tim Cross Fatimid invasion of Egypt (914–915) Battle of Ismailia Junayd of Aydın Battles of the Kinarot Valley 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 Shadia Abu Ghazaleh Ali Abu Nuwar Abu Sa'id al-Jannabi Abu Taghlib 'Adud al-Dawla 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 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) Operation Badr (1973) Bahram Mirza Safavi Nasib al-Bakri Banu Kalb Banu Munqidh Battle of Artemisium 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 Battle of Beersheba (1917) Battle of Beirut (1912) Operation Bertram Bethlehem Al-Birwa Black September Bloody Thursday (Bahrain) Bohemond III of Antioch 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) Darius the Great Ashraf Dehghani Demolition of al-Baqi John Doukas (sebastokrator) Felek al-Din Dündar Operation Eastern Exit EL/M-2080 Green Pine Siege of Erivan (1804) Esarhaddon 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 Battle of Fort Lahtzanit 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 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 Karabakh Khanate Kavad I Charles Keating IV Khalid ibn Barmak Khanjar Khumarawayh ibn Ahmad ibn Tulun Khurshid of Tabaristan Battles of the Kinarot Valley 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 Mehmed of Dulkadir 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 Nabopolassar 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 Pleshet Ottoman ironclad Orhaniye Orodes I of Parthia Orodes II Orontes I 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 Sargonid dynasty Schneller Orphanage Tanyus Shahin Shahrbaraz Siege of Shaizar Shalmaneser V 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 Sinsharishkun Soltan Hosayn Mirza Safavi Special Air Service Regiment State communications in the Neo-Assyrian Empire Suleiman I of Candar Sîn-šumu-līšir Tahmasp I Tel al-Sultan attack Theodosius I Thutmose I Capture of Tiberias (1918) Tiglath-Pileser III Third Transjordan attack Uthman ibn Abi al-As Vardanes I Varsken Vologases III of Parthia Vologases IV War of the Antiochene Succession Al-Wathiq World War II Yazdegerd I Yazdegerd II Yazid II Zahir al-Umar Zayn al-Din Qaraja Ziyad ibn Abihi Gilbert de Lacy Šamaš-šuma-ukin

Middle Eastern military history task force assessment statistics Articles Lists FA 52 FL 0 A 24 AL 0 GA 250     B 802 BL 13 C 2,426 CL 63 Start 3,843 List 225 Stub 1,144     Total 8,541 Total 301 Other pages Category 2,367 Disambig 60 Draft 29 File 123 Portal 0 Project 2 Redirect 347 SIA 16 Template 409 User 2 Total 3,355 Unassessed 2 Statistics ω 40,129 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 • 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 • 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

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Did you know

• 01 Nov 2024 – Tel al-Sultan attack (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Personisinsterest (t · c); see discussion

Articles for deletion

• 23 Nov 2024 – Gaza Strip famine (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Stonkaments (t · c); see discussion (8 participants)
• 22 Nov 2024 – Battle of Tabriz (1757) (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by HistoryofIran (t · c); see discussion (3 participants)
• 22 Nov 2024 – Siege of Bahrain (1811) (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by HistoryofIran (t · c); see discussion (4 participants)
• 11 Nov 2024 – 2023–2024 Gaza Strip preterm births (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Originalcola (t · c); see discussion (19 participants; relisted)
• 22 Nov 2024 – Siege of Muscat (1811) (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by HistoryofIran (t · c) was closed (deleted); see discussion (2 participants)
• 15 Nov 2024 – Lazistan campaign (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Chidgk1 (t · c) was closed as delete by Ganesha811 (t · c) on 22 Nov 2024; see discussion (5 participants)
• undated – Qajar-Wahhabi War (talk · edit · hist) AfDed was closed as delete by JBW (t · c) on 22 Nov 2024; see discussion

Proposed deletions

• 25 Nov 2024 – Operation Arbead II (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by Kazamzam (t · c): Cannot find any indication of existence, let alone sufficient sources to verify article and establish notability.

Categories for discussion

• 17 Nov 2024 – Category:Iranian melee weapons (talk · edit · hist) CfDed by HouseBlaster (t · c) was closed; see discussion

Redirects for discussion

• 16 Oct 2024 – Ra'ad 1 (talk · edit · hist) →RAAD (anti-tank guided missile) was RfDed by Steel1943 (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

• 09 Nov 2024 – Mseilha Fort (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Elias Ziade (t · c); start discussion
• 01 Oct 2024 – History of the Regency of Algiers (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Nourerrahmane (t · c); start discussion
• 01 Oct 2024 – Regency of Algiers (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Nourerrahmane (t · c); see discussion
• 09 Apr 2024 – Mohammad Shah Qajar (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Amir Ghandi (t · c); see discussion

Good article reassessments

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

Requests for comments

• 09 Nov 2024 – Hamas (talk · edit · hist) has an RfC by Smallangryplanet (t · c); see discussion
• 29 Oct 2024 – Al-Ahli Arab Hospital explosion (talk · edit · hist) has an RfC by BilledMammal (t · c); see discussion
• 27 Oct 2024 – 1948 Arab–Israeli War (talk · edit · hist) has an RfC by Andrevan (t · c); see discussion

Peer reviews

• 03 Nov 2024 – War of the Antiochene Succession (talk · edit · hist) has been put up for PR by Borsoka (t · c); see discussion

Requested moves

• 26 Nov 2024 – Wahhabi War (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Wahhabi war by Cinderella157 (t · c); see discussion
• 18 Nov 2024 – Israeli incursions in the West Bank during the Israel–Hamas war (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to West Bank conflict (2023–present) by Chicdat (t · c); see discussion
• 13 Nov 2024 – Second battle of Khan Yunis (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Second Battle of Khan Yunis by BarrelProof (t · c); see discussion
• 13 Nov 2024 – Third battle of Khan Yunis (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Third Battle of Khan Yunis by BarrelProof (t · c); see discussion
• 13 Nov 2024 – Fourth battle of Dongola (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Fourth Battle of Dongola by BarrelProof (t · c); see discussion
• 03 Nov 2024 – Tel al-Sultan attack (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved somewhere else by Personisinsterest (t · c); see discussion
• 18 Nov 2024 – Islamic terrorism (talk · edit · hist) move request somewhere else by Industrial Metal Brain (t · c) was not moved; see discussion

Articles to be merged

• 05 Nov 2024 – Israel–Hamas war (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Middle Eastern crisis (2023–present) by CommunityNotesContributor (t · c); see discussion
• 05 Oct 2024 – Use of human shields by Hamas (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Human shields in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict by Ïvana (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

Articles to be split

• 01 Nov 2024 – Israel–Hamas war (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by CommunityNotesContributor (t · c); see discussion
• 21 Oct 2024 – Red Sea crisis (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Abo Yemen (t · c); see discussion
• 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

• 10 Nov 2024 – Draft:SSF Ania (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by 65.92.246.77 (t · c)
• 09 Nov 2024 – Draft:Qudāmah ibn Maẓʿūn (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Karim Ibn Karim (t · c)
• 17 Oct 2024 – Draft:List of military engagements during the Israel–Hezbollah conflict (2023–present) (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by 92.9.187.249 (t · c) was accepted to List of military engagements during the Israel–Hezbollah conflict (2023–present) (talk · edit · hist) by ToadetteEdit (t · c) on 23 Nov 2024

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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