List of wars involving Kuwait

• Bushehr

• Naval attack by the Bushehri navy on Zubarah in 1782 fails.
• Civil war starts in Bahrain after the attack on Zubarah.
• Jidhafs win the civil war, however, by this time the Zubarans had just entered the country.
• Zubarah gains control of Bahrain in 1783

• Kuwaiti victory over Banu Kaab.

• British East India Company

• Saudi retreat from Kuwait.

• Dammam

• Rahmah ibn Jabir al-Jalahimah's invasion of Bahrain repelled.

• Baghdad Eyalet

• Al-Muntafiq
• Banu Kaab

• Kuwaiti intervention in Basra leads to ceasefire with the Bani Kaab.
• Sheikh Humoud imprisoned by Governor of Baghdad Dawud Pasha and replaced by his nephew Sheikh Aqeel as Emir of the Muntafiq tribal confederation.

• Banu Kaab
• Al-Muntafiq

• Baghdad Eyalet

• End of several week long siege of Basra by the allies of former Baghdad governor Dawud Pasha.
• Arab demands met with the Re-installation of Aziz Agha as Mutasallim of Basra.

• Al-Muntafiq

• End of the seven-month-long siege of Zubair.
• Restoration of the Al Thaqib family as the ruling house of Zubair.
• Massacre of the House of Al Zuhair by the reinstated House of Al Thaqib; survivors find refuge in Kuwait and Ottoman Iraq.

• Baghdad Eyalet

• Capture and destruction of Muhammara (Khorramshahr) by Ali Rida Pasha, Governor of Baghdad.
• Banu Kaab pays homage to the Ottomans rather than the Persians.
• Kuwait wins alliance with the Ottoman Empire and becomes unrivaled in sharing with Basra the commercial prosperity in the northern region of the Gulf with the fall of Muhammara.

• Al Hasa is reincorporated into the Ottoman Empire and becomes known as the Najd Sanjak.
• Sheikh Abdullah bin Sabah Al Sabah the ruler of Kuwait is granted the honorific title of Kaymakam by the Ottomans for his contribution to the war effort.

• Kuwaiti Invasion of Najd repelled.
• Jabal Shammar Counter-Invasion Fails

• Mutayr

• Five thousand camels captured as booty.
• Beginning of Saudi-Rashidi War.

• Kuwaiti-Saudi initial defeat at the Battle of Hadia.
• Sheikh Mubarak sends another force which easily claims victory against the Al Muntafiq tribe.

• Australia
•  India
• New Zealand

Kuwaiti Front:

• Ottoman forces expelled from their positions in Umm Qasr, Safwan, and Bubiyan.
• British public recognition of Kuwait as a protectorate proclaiming it to be an “independent government under British protection.

British Front:

• Treaty of Sèvres

• Ikhwan

• Uqair Protocol of 1922

• RAF

• Ikhwan attack on Kuwait repelled.
• The remnants of the Ikhwan incorporated into regular Saudi units.
• The Ikhwan leadership was either slain or imprisoned.

• The crisis ended after the military coup against Abdul Karim Qasim and his execution.
• Saudi Arabia forces were sent to Kuwait consisting of 1,281 Saudi soldiers.

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• Israel captured the Gaza Strip, Sinai, the West Bank and the Golan Heights.

• Pull back of Iraqi Armed Forces to the demarcation line set by the Arab League during Operation Vantage 1961.
• Iraqi withdrawal from Al-Samita border post under Saudi pressure.

• Syrian invasion of Israel repelled; UN ceasefire.
• Geneva Conference and the Sinai II Agreement.
• Strategic political gains for Egypt and Israel – especially Egypt
• Egypt–Israel peace treaty

(1990)

• Iraqi-backed puppet state known as the Republic of Kuwait installed
• Puppet state Republic of Kuwait later annexed as Iraq's 19th province
• Beginning of the Gulf War

• Iraqi withdrawal from Kuwait; Emir Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah restored.
• Heavy casualties and destruction of Iraqi and Kuwaiti infrastructure.

• Houthis
• Saleh loyalists

• Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula

• Wilayah al-Yemen

• Houthis dissolve Yemeni government.
• Houthis take control of northern Yemen.