On October 16, 10 days after the start of the war, Israeli forces, under the command of Ariel Sharon, managed to penetrate Egyptian and Syrian defence lines and came within a shocking distance ...

The October 1973 Arab-Israeli War lasted for barely three weeks but it shook the world economy and culminated in the Camp David Accords that saw Egypt become the first Arab country to establish ...

It's a war with many names: The Yom Kippur War, the Ramadan War, the October War. What is clear 50 years after it was fought is that it was a conflict that really did change the world.

Egypt could not accept Israeli occupation of the Sinai and, after two years of artillery duels, launched an audacious surprise attack across the Suez Canal on Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish ...

The 1973 October War didn’t last long as wars go, but even forty-five years later, its influence is still profound.

In October 1973, Egyptian soldiers crossed the Suez Canal, marking the beginning of the end of Israel’s occupation of Sinai and the start of Israel’s long road to normalisation with its nieghbours ...

The 1973 Arab-Israeli War — also often referred to as the Yom Kippur War, the October War, or the Ramadan War — began as a concerted attack by Egypt and Syria on Israel on October 6, 1973.

The 1973 October War was the Arab-Israeli war Israel almost lost. Historians generally attribute Israel's costly victory to two Israeli lapses, a successful enemy deception operation and a very ...

The 28 October 1973 ceasefire between Egypt and Israel saw Egyptian soldiers coming home full of stories of bravery and honour, writes Dina Ezzat “It must have been a year or two after the war ...