The 21 who made good their escape to the
United Arab Republic, were charged as fugitives.
1958 Jamal Abdul Nasser becomes the first President of the new
United Arab Republic, a short-lived union of Syria and Egypt.
As a result, Kuwait called on Britain to withdraw its troops and replaced them with Arab ones and actually some troops from the
United Arab Republic, Jordan, and Sudan arrived in Kuwait to protect it from any foreign interference.
At the same time, efforts at nation building along secular lines were reflected in Egyptian President Gamal Abdel-Nasser's pan-Arabism and the Syrian Bth Party, resulting in the establishment of the
United Arab Republic, a union between Egypt and Syria that lasted from 1958 to 1961.
In 1958 the
United Arab Republic was formed by Egypt and Syria but lasted only three years.
Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the
United Arab Republic and Qatar pledged sixty percent of the funding.
In Syria, the
United Arab Republic (WAR) formed between Egypt and Syria (1958-1961) was demolished in a 1961 plot by secessionist officers and civilians.
President Gamal Abdel Nasr deployed troops to the area for a short period of time to secure the area ahead of the referendum for the
United Arab Republic.
1958 -- Kuwait hosted the 13th conference of regional offices for boycotting Israel with attendance of representatives from Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Sudan, the
United Arab Republic (Egypt and Syria), Lebanon and Libya.
Then little known outside the Arab world, Turk's inveterate criticism of state authoritarianism first got him thrown into detention during the
United Arab Republic -- the 1958-61 Syrian-Egyptian experiment in political union.
They argue that Colonel Nasser's confusion of identity--in 1959 he renamed Egypt the
United Arab Republic until the name was restored by the late President Sadat after Nasser's death in 1970--inevitably leading away from Egypt's liberal and secular ways into Islamic fundamentalism.
A congressional sub-committee on Middle East peace concluded in April 1967 that the
United Arab Republic (composed of Egypt and Syria) constituted the principal obstacle to peace, thus legitimizing the future offensive which came to be know as the Six Day War.