The Middle Eastern theatre of World War I saw action between 29 October
1914 and 30 October 1918. The combatants were, on one side, the Ottoman Empire
(including the majority of Kurdish tribes, a relative majority of Arabs, and
some Iranian peoples), with some assistance from the other Central Powers; and
on the other side, the British (with the help of Jews, Greeks, Assyrians, some
Kurdish tribes and Arab states, along with Hindu, Sikh and Muslim colonial
troops from India) as well as troops from the British Dominions of Australia,
Canada, and New Zealand, the Russians (with the help of Armenians, Assyrians,
and occasionally some Kurdish tribes), and the French (with its North African
and West African Muslim, Christian and other colonial troops) from among the
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