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War of Attrition

1967 CE – 1970 CE · 3 years

A prolonged artillery and air war along the Suez Canal as Egypt sought to recapture the Sinai lost in the Six-Day War. Soviet pilots secretly flew missions against Israel before a U.S.-brokered ceasefire ended the fighting.

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Belligerents

The main peoples, kingdoms and states involved.

  • Egypt & Soviet Union
  • Israel

Key moments

Defining events in the War of Attrition.

  1. 1967 Sinking of INS Eilat
  2. 1970 Operation Rimon 20
  3. 1970 Bahr el-Baqar school bombing

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Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 1967 CE and 1970 CE.

1967 CE Six-Day War 1970 CE Black September (Jordanian Civil War) 1967 CE Nigerian Civil War (Biafra) 1967 CE Cambodian Civil War 1967 CE Naxalite–Maoist Insurgency

And in the rest of the world

Records running through the same years, on the other side of the map.

Grand Canyon Landmark · Americas 3000 BCE – still standing French Somaliland Polity · Africa 1896 CE – 1967 CE Langston Hughes Figure · Harlem / United States 1901 CE – 1967 CE The Troubles Conflict · Europe 1968 CE – 1998 CE Great Barrier Reef Landmark · Oceania 3000 BCE – still standing Spanish Guinea Polity · Africa 1880 CE – 1968 CE
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