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The Uqair Protocol was issued on December 2, 1922, in response to the Wahhabi Bedouin raiders, operating from Nejd, under Abdul Aziz ibn Abdul Rahman ibn Saud. The British High Commissioner to Baghdad, Sir Percy Cox, met with ibn Saud and the British Political Agent to Kuwait, Major John More, at Uqair where he imposed the Uqair Protocol which defined the boundaries between Iraq and Nejd; and between Kuwait and Nejd.See also:
History of the Middle EastThis article is a general overview of the history of the Middle East . For more detailed information, see articles on the histories of individual countries. The area now known as the Middle East has a history of human civilisation extending back 5,000 yea
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