Buraimi dispute

Invasion of Hamasa and Buraimi
Date 28 January 1952 – 25 October 1955 Location Al-Buraimi Result Decisive Trucial Oman Scouts victory Surrender of Saudi forces Ceasefire agreement with Bedouin tribes Territorial changes Saudi Arabia withdraws and Oman regains control of Na'im and Al Bu Shamis, Buraimi and Hamasah Emirate of Abu Dhabi consolidates control of Al Ain Start of the Saudi Arabia – United Arab Emirates border dispute
Belligerents
Saudi Arabia Supported by Al Bu Shamis tribe Na'im tribe	Trucial Emirates Emirate of Abu Dhabi British Empire Supported by Sultanate of Muscat and Oman Aden Protectorate
Commanders and leaders
Turki bin Abdullah Al Otaishan (in 1952) Major Abdullah bin Nami (WIA) (in 1955) Supported by Sheikh Rashid bin Hamad Al Shamsi Sheikh Saqr bin Sultan Al Nuaimi	Major Otto Thwaites † (in 1952) Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan (in 1955) Supported by Said bin Taimur
Strength
80 Saudi Arabian guards 200 Bedouins	100 Trucial Oman scouts 300 Aden Protectorate Levies 7 armoured cars 14 Land Rovers 4 Lancaster bombers
Casualties and losses
unknown?	unknown?

The Buraimi dispute, also known as the Buraimi war (Arabic: حرب البريمي), was a series of covert attempts by Saudi Arabia to influence the loyalties of tribes and communities in and around the oil-rich Buraimi oasis in the 1940s and 1950s, which culminated in an armed conflict between forces and tribes loyal to Saudi Arabia, on one side, and Oman and the Trucial States (today the United Arab Emirates, or UAE), on the other, which broke out as the result of a territorial dispute over the town of Al-Buraimi in Oman, and parts of what is now the city of Al Ain in the Eastern Region of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi.^[1][2] It amounted to an attempted Saudi invasion of the Buraimi Oasis. Its roots lay in the partitioning of tribal areas and communities which took place in the Trucial States when oil companies were seeking concessions to explore the interior.