The Ajlun offensive, also known as the Battle of the Scrubland,[3] was a major military engagement between Jordan and the Palestine Liberation Organization during the Black September conflict in 1971. Jordanian troops encircled thousands of Palestinian fedayeen and forced them to evacuate from the area.
^Sayigh 2004, p. 279.
^"حديث صحافي لياسر عرفات حول الحوادث الأخيرة في الأردن[1971/7/31]".
The Ajlunoffensive, also known as the Battle of the Scrubland, was a major military engagement between Jordan and the Palestine Liberation Organization...
War). He was killed in the countryside around Ajlun and Jerash by Jordanian forces during the Ajlunoffensive in July 1971. His partisans claimed that he...
one, until 2,000 surrendered after they were encircled during the Ajlunoffensive on 23 July, formally marking the end of the conflict. Jordan allowed...
renewed offensive was launched in November 1970. The first phase of the operation saw the retaking of major urban areas such as Amman, Ajlun, and Jarash...
veered off course and crashed in the grounds of the crusader fortress, Ajlun Castle, in Jordan (About 25 km southeast of Beit She'an). Asaf Simhoni,...
to smaller attacks on secondary targets such as Baalbek, al-Subayba, and Ajlun as well as raids against other Palestine towns, perhaps including Jerusalem...
conquered territory. Kitbuqa continued the offensive, taking the cities and castles of Baalbek, al-Subayba, and Ajlun and sending Mongol raiding parties further...
field commander Abu Ali Iyad held out the Jordanian Army's offensive in the northern city of Ajlun until they were decisively defeated in July 1971. Abu Ali...
Shortly afterward, Sayf al-Din Ali surrendered his exposed principality of Ajlun and its fortress to as-Salih Ayyub. The rupture of the alliance between...
designated the administrative capital of the combined districts of Lajjun and Ajlun. There are indications that the area comprising Jenin and Nablus remained...
fell to the Crusaders who pillaged the city. He continued his retreat to Ajlun, ordering al-Mu'azzam to protect Jerusalem from the heights of Lubban, near...
Kethuda as the sanjak-beys of Ajlun and Nablus with local opponents of the Ma'ns. The Porte soon after restored the Ma'ns to Ajlun and Nablus, but not to Safed...
plain of Damascus southward into modern-day Jordan where it borders Jabal Ajlun to the southwest and the desert steppe to the south and southeast. To the...
sanjak which now included the Sanjak of Ajlun. By the 19th century it was renamed Sanjak Jenin, although 'Ajlun was separated from it. Zahir al-Umar, who...
against the Hyksos Fifteenth Dynasty of Egypt c. 1582 BCE Final Theban offensive of Hyksos who conquer Thebes, ending the 16th Dynasty c. 1560 BCE – c...
sheikh Kulayb and Ali Khulqi al-Sharayiri, the head of the government of Ajlun in Irbid, who has meanwhile become a minister in Amman, in charge of security...
which were swelled by soldiers from Jerusalem, Nablus, Gaza, Lajjun, and Ajlun, all sanjaks of Damascus located in Palestine and Transjordan. A dissident...
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