Saudi-Yemeni War (1934)
Saudi-Yemeni War may refer to: * 1931 Saudi–Yemeni border skirmish * Saudi–Yemeni War (1934) * Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen Saudi may refer to: * Saudi Arabia * Saudis, people from Saudi Arabia * Saudi culture, the culture of Saudi Arabia * House of Saud The House of Saud ( ar, آل سُعُود, ʾĀl Suʿūd ) is the ruling royal family of Saudi Arabia. It is c ...

1931 Saudi–Yemeni Border Skirmish
Early in the year 1931, the Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd, ruled by the House of Saud, engaged in an ill-documented border skirmish against the Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen. Historical account All known details are provided on page 322 of St John Philby's 1955 book ''Saudi Arabia'', which gives the following account: Commentary In an enquiry in 2017, the Correlates of War project was unable to find any further information, and found that ''The Times'' did not contain any mention of such incident in all of 1931. Nonetheless, they still believed that such an incident had happened, since Philby was a close associate of Ibn Saud as well as a reputable British Arabist. See also * List of wars involving Saudi Arabia * Najran conflict The Najran conflict was a poorly documented conflict over Najran in the 1930s fought between the Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen and the Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd. All known details are provided on page 322 of St John Philby's 1955 book ''Saudi Arabi ...
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Saudi–Yemeni War (1934)
The Saudi–Yemeni War ( ar, الحرب السعودية اليمنية) was a war between Saudi Arabia and the Kingdom of Yemen in 1934. Background Ibn Saud, the founder of Saudi Arabia, had named himself King of the Nejd, following the collapse of Ottoman Empire power during World War I. In 1925 he took control of Hejaz from the Hashemites. In 1932, he proclaimed the merger of the Nejd and Hejaz kingdoms, establishing the Saudi Arabian Kingdom. Most of the boundaries remained unmapped, unmarked, and undemarcated by treaty. He was described as "a modern Solomon", as "Cromwell of the Desert", and as both the Napoleon and the Bismarck of Arabia. By 1932, Ibn Saud controlled almost all of Arabia, except for Yemen, and the smaller coastal states which were then British protectorates (Oman, Kuwait, Bahrain, Aden, etc.). Between Hejaz and Yemen were several tribal regions over which the Ottomans had previously held weak suzerainty, and which both Ibn Saud and the Imam of Y ...
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