Battle of Arara was a battle fought on 19 September 1918 at Wadi Ara, in what is now Israel. It was part of the Middle Eastern theater of World War I, which ran from 1914 to 1918. The recorded result: Franco–British victory.
Where it sits in the Middle Eastern theater of World War I
96 placed engagements of the Middle Eastern theater of World War I in time order; taller ticks are more widely documented. Each tick is a link.
Record
Date
19 September 1918
Place
Wadi Ara, Israel 32.494N, 35.054E
Kind
Battle, First World War
Strength
16th and 19th Divisions, Asia Corps, Eighth Army, Yıldırım Army Group
54th (East Anglian) Division; Détachement Français de Palestine et de Syrie (DFPS) including the French Armenian Legion, XXI Corps Egyptian Expeditionary Force
Casualties and losses
218 Ottoman soldiers including six officers taken prisoner by the DFPS among 700 prisoners
535 including 23 French Armenian Legion dead; 76 wounded
Battle of Arara is one of 2,997 engagements of the 20th century in the atlas and one of 152 in present-day Israel.
Sources
Identity, coordinates, dates and the war from Wikidata Q4870323, released under CC0. Result, belligerents, commanders, strength and casualties from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article Battle of Arara, revision 1371157888, read 2026-11-14, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0; the article's text is not reproduced here. Present-day country and state from Natural Earth. Dates before 1582 follow the Julian calendar as recorded.
