Regional1956

Battle of Straits of Tiran

Name: War Atlas: Named Conflicts and Empire Borders, 3000 BCE – Present
Creator: War Atlas
Keywords: wars, military history, conflicts, empires, historical atlas, casualties

Egypt

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Battle of Straits of Tiran (1956), part of the Arab-Israeli Sinai War. Israel defeated Egypt.

Belligerents2

Israel
Egypt

Conflict graph

PART OFSuez Crisis

Sources

HCED — Miller & Bakar (2023), Historical Conflict Event Dataset, J. Conflict Resolution 67(2-3)
Jaques, Dictionary of Battles and Sieges (HCED primary source)

Open in the atlas →Seeks the timeline to 1956 and opens this record.

Cite as: Battle of Straits of Tiran (1956). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/battle-of-straits-of-tiran · Sources & methodology