Al-Khurma dispute

First Saudi–Hashemite War
	Part of the Unification of Saudi Arabia
Date	July 1918 – 4 July 1919
Location	Turubah, Kingdom of Hejaz
Result	Ceasefire The Emirate of Nejd and Hasa gains territories from the Kingdom of Hejaz;
Belligerents
Najd and Hasa Ikhwan tribesmen; Al-Khurma tribesmen;	Hejaz
Commanders and leaders
Abdulaziz bin Saud Sultan bin Bajad; Hamud ibn Omar; Khalid ibn Mansur;	Hussein bin Ali; Abdullah bin Hussein
Casualties and losses
2,000 killed	5,000 killed
	+7,000 soldiers and +1,392 civilians killed

The First Saudi–Hashemite War, also known as the First Nejd–Hejaz War or the al-Khurma dispute, took place in 1918–19 between Abdulaziz Ibn Saud of the Emirate of Nejd and Hasa and the Hashemites of the Kingdom of Hejaz.

The war came within the scope of the historic conflict between the Hashemites of Hejaz and the Saudis of Riyadh (Nejd) over supremacy in Arabia. It resulted in the defeat of the Hashemite forces and capture of al-Khurma by the Saudis and his allied Ikhwan, but British intervention prevented immediate collapse of the Hashemite kingdom, establishing a sensitive cease-fire that would last until 1924.

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