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Conflict	Combatant 1	Combatant 2	Results	Head of State
First Arab-Israeli War (1948–1949)	Egypt Iraq Transjordan Syria Lebanon HWA ALF	Israel	Defeat Tactical and strategic Arab failure. 1949 Armistice Agreements; Israel kept the area allotted to it by the Partition Plan and captured 50% of area allotted to Arab state.	Farouk of Egypt
Suez Crisis (1956)	Egypt	Israel United Kingdom France	Defeat Israeli occupation of Sinai until 1957, followed by a UNEF-controlled demilitarized zone.	Gamal Abdel Nasser
North Yemen Civil War (1962–1967)	Egypt Republicans	Royalists	Withdrawal Eventual Republican victory in 1970.
Six Day War (1967)	Egypt Syria Jordan Iraq	Israel	Defeat Israel captured the Gaza Strip, Sinai, the West Bank and the Golan Heights.
War of Attrition (1969–1970)	Egypt USSR	Israel	Both sides claimed victory Continued Israeli occupation of Sinai.
Yom Kippur War (1973)	Egypt Syria Iraq	Israel	Defeat^[1] Geneva Conference and the Sinai Interim Agreement.	Anwar Sadat
Libyan-Egyptian War (1977)	Egypt	Libya	Military Retreat^[2] Libyan invasion of Egypt repelled.	Anwar Sadat
Gulf War (1990–1991)	Kuwait United States Arab League Egypt Syria Morocco Oman UAE Qatar Bahrain Saudi Arabia United Kingdom France Italy Canada Argentina Australia Pakistan Bangladesh	Iraq	Victory Iraqi withdrawal from Kuwait; Emir Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah restored. Heavy casualties and destruction of Iraqi and Kuwaiti infrastructure.	Hosni Mubarak

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References:
- Herzog, The War of Atonement, Little, Brown and Company, 1975. Forward
- Insight Team of the London Sunday Times, Yom Kippur War, Double Day and Company, Inc, 1974, page 450
- Luttwak and Horowitz, The Israeli Army. Cambridge, MA, Abt Books, 1983
- Rabinovich, The Yom Kippur War, Schocken Books, 2004. Page 498
- 0-313-31302-4&lr=#v=onepage&q=&f=false Revisiting The Yom Kippur War, P.R. Kumaraswamy, pages 1–2
- Johnson and Tierney, Failing To Win, Perception of Victory and Defeat in International Politics. Page 177
- Charles Liebman, The Myth of Defeat: The Memory of the Yom Kippur war in Israeli Society Middle Eastern Studies, Vol 29, No. 3, July 1993. Published by Frank Cass, London. Page 411.
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