User:Al Ameer son/Firad

Prelude
By the summer of 633, the Muslim state in Medina under caliph Abu Bakr had brought the nomadic Arab tribes of northern and central Arabia under its control in the Ridda wars. The campaigning in these regions was led by the commander Khalid ibn al-Walid, who proceeded, either at his own initiative or under Abu Bakr's direction, to target the desert frontier of the Persian Sasanian Empire in Iraq. He entered the region with an army mainly composed of nomadic tribesmen and won a series of engagements against the Persian garrisons along the lower Euphrates River and their nomadic Christian Arab tribal allies. The main objective of the operations evidently was the capture of al-Hira, the administrative center for the desert frontier region and main host to the pro-Sasanian Arab tribes. Al-Hira was besieged, while the surrounding countryside was pillaged to pressure the city's defenders to capitulate. Surrender terms were consequently reached, and Khalid moved northward along the Euphrates, capturing the strategic fortress towns of Anbar and Ayn al-Tamr from their Persian garrisons, and beating the Christian Arab tribes in clashes at the sites of Musayyakh, Thani, and Zumayl.

Battle
After his victory at Zumayl, Khalid reached the site of Firad, which Alois Musil has identified as the ancient fortress of Dura-Europos, located close to the modern village of al-Salihiyah in eastern Syria.