1973 Arab-Israeli War

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1973 Arab-Israeli War
Date 6 October 1973 – 25 October 1973 2 weeks and 5 days) Location Africa, Western Asia Result Complicated Territorial changes • Egyptian forces liberate 1200 sq km of territory around the East of the Sinai Peninsula • Israeli forces occupy 1600 sq km west of the Suez Canal and 500 sq km of the Syrian Bashan region of the Golan Heights
Belligerents
Egypt Syria	Israel
Expeditionary forces: Saudi Arabia Algeria Jordan Libya Iraq Kuwait Tunisia Morocco Cuba North Korea PLO factions

The 1973 Arab–Israeli War, also known as the fourth Arab–Israeli War, the October War, the Ramadan War or the Yom Kippur War (6–25 October 1973), was a war fought by a coalition of Arab states led by Egypt and Syria, against the Zionist Entity.