Ikhwan revolt

Ikhwan revolt
Part of the Unification of Saudi Arabia
Flag of Ikhwan
Date 1927–1930 Location Nejd, Iraq, Kuwait Result Allied victory
Belligerents
Ikhwan Otaibah Mutayr Ajman	Hejaz and Nejd House of Saud Allied Arab clans  United Kingdom  Royal Air Force Kuwait  Iraq Allied Arab clans
Commanders and leaders
Faisal bin Sultan  Sultan bin Bajad † Meqaid al-Duhainah †	Abdulaziz al-Saud Fawzi al-Qawuqji Faisal bin Abdulaziz Mubarak Al Azmi † Faisal I Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah
Strength
47,000[1]	30,000[1]
Casualties and losses
500 in Battle of Sabilla[1] 450 in Jabal Shammar	200 in Battle of Sabilla[1] 500 in Jabal Shammar
About 100 killed in the raids 700 killed in Sabilla 1,000 killed in Jabal Shammar 250 killed in raid on Awazim tribe 2,000 killed in total[1]

The Ikhwan revolt was an uprising in the Arabian Peninsula from 1927 to 1930 led by the Ikhwan. It began in 1927, when the tribesmen of the Otaibah, Mutayr and Ajman rebelled against the authority of Ibn Saud and engaged in cross-border raids into parts of Transjordan, Mandatory Iraq and the Sheikhdom of Kuwait.^[2] The relationship between the House of Saud and the Ikhwan deteriorated into an open bloody feud in December 1928.^[1] The main instigators of the rebellion were defeated in the Battle of Sabilla, on 29 March 1929.^[3] Ikhwan tribesmen and troops loyal to Abdulaziz clashed again in the Jabal Shammar region in August 1929,^[1] and Ikhwan tribesmen attacked the Awazim tribe on 5 October 1929. Faisal al-Duwaish, the main leader of the rebellion and the Mutair tribe, fled to Kuwait in October 1929 before being detained by the British and handed over to Ibn Saud.^[4] Al-Duwaish would die in Riyadh on 3 October 1931 from an apparent heart condition.^[4] Government troops had finally suppressed the rebellion on 10 January 1930, when other Ikhwan rebel leaders surrendered to the British.^[1] In the aftermath, the Ikhwan leadership was slain,^[5] and the remains were eventually incorporated into regular Saudi units. Sultan bin Bajad, one of the three main Ikhwan leaders, was killed in 1931, while Al-Duwaish died in prison in Riyadh on 3 October 1931.^[1]