Yom Kippur War History

The Yom Kippur War, Ramadan War, or October War , also known as the 1973 Arab - Israeli War, was a war fought from October 6 to 25, 1973, by a coalition of Arab states led by Egypt and Syria against Israel. The war took place mostly in Sinai and the Golan - occupied by Israel during the 1967 Six-Day War - with some fighting in African Egypt and northern Israel.Egypt's initial war objective was to use its military to seize a foothold on the east bank of the Suez Canal and use this to negotiate the return of the rest of Sinai.