Wihda

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Wihda
Khatti Unification War
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Members of the Ibn Muzahir Resistance Committee near Umm az Zaytun
Date8 November 1958 – 26 January 1983
(24 years and 79 days)
Location
Result

Unification of Zubaydah

  • Decolonialization of the Agoanatolian Subcontinent
Belligerents
Crown Colony of Qusayr
Suwaydah Sultanat
Emirate of Balqis
Democratic Republic of Bouarej
State of Fahel
Republic of Ruhaybah
Republic of Jamlah
Union of Hamid and Zahraa
Emirate of Abtin
Mankhalla Imamate

Zubaydah Qusayri Republic
Zubaydah People's Popular Resistence Committees

Republic of Ruhaybah (1963-1965)

Popular Resistence Front

Ansarullah
Jaysh al-Mudzhill
Halk Oppozisiýa Goşuny
HOD-EK
Katibat Haras Tabaria
Jaysh al-Gharb al-Rasulii
Commanders and leaders
William Henry Phayre
Sultan Ikhtiyar al-Din ibn Mua'dh
Emir Taufiq al-Bahlol ibn Faheem
President Ifraym Manqabadi
Idris al-Otayf
President Mustafa Bekir Silah (1965-1977)
Julyat Talhouni
Abdul Mukhlis Taajwar
Emir Musa Safniya ibn Waqr al-Zahyr al-Za'ab
Imam Abdullah Awad al-Mueaqly
Zubaydah Hussayn al-Baqir ibn Ka'b Naqbiyli
Zubaydah Hidayatullah Bettayeb
Zubaydah Riyadh al-Alusi
Zubaydah Amr al-Dawsi
Zubaydah Sa'ad Abdul Qadir Zoubi
Zubaydah Julaybib ibn Wahb al-Shalhoub
Zubaydah Nauym al-Hilaliyyah
Bursuq al-Athar (1963-1965)
Muhammad Ziryab al-Badr
Masruq al-Mubarak
Anjum Othman al-Qaa'id
Ra'uf Abu Sabiq Talib al-Farrukh
Saadeddin Chadirji
Azad Ali Malmîsanij
Nasrallah Bashir Saad
Symeon Abbas
Strength
Total troops: 560,000 Total troops 650,000
275,000 at peak
75,000
Casualties and losses
97,900 KIA
271,000 WIA and POW
142,000 Killed in Action
376,000 WIA
18,700 KIA
Civilian Dead: 275,000+

The Wihda was an armed conflict between Nationalist forces led by the Qusayri Republic and numerous khatti states on the Agoanatolian Subcontinent. In Zubaydi nationalist historiography the conflict is considered to have started after the murder of Saadallah al-Ashari and the start of the Qusayr Emergency in 1958. The conflict lasted from the Qusayr Emergency until the signing of the Marj al-Sultan Accords between Ruhaybah, Mankhalla, Abtin, and Qusayr.

The conflict was conducted based on the ideological goals of the Party for National Liberation and Popular Democracy which spearheaded the Khatti insurgency in Qusayr. Hussayn al-Baqir ibn Ka'b Naqbiyli would bolster the growing nationalist militancy movement during the Cassette Revolution where he would distribute religious sermons via RCA tape cartridge and then later by cassette tape. Nationalist forces would invade the Suwaydah Sultanate and Balqis. Between 1963 and 1968 the Thulathi would control the Qusayri Republic, with the invasion of Fahel the Thulathi would expel Bettayeb, that next year the Toilers Revolution and the attempted coup by al-Alusi would fail, leaving Naqbiyli as the sole leader of the Party for National Liberation and Popular Democracy.

in 1973 Qusayri forces would conduct the Highland Campaign with the intent of invading and taking over Abtin, Hamid and Zahraa, Ruhaybah, and Jamlah. The invasion would devastate the local economies of the region and led to increased regional instability. major battles in Deir al-Nasraniy, Koysin, and Baykufteh led to large losses on all sides. The conflict would end in 1983 after the signing of the Marj al-Sultan Accords which formally incorporated the last remaining states into Qusayr.