The Middle Eastern Conflict, also called the Arab Patriotic War, was a conflict that erupted upon the Turkish Sultanate invasion of northern Syria. The Turks decided to invade the Middle East for two reasons, the first being that they wanted to recreate the Ottoman Empire and the second that the Independent State of Greece was able to successfully gap hold back their excursions into Europe. The Central Arab Coalition, a collective of tribes and regional authorities, attempted to hold the Turks back but was quickly forced to pull back to Lebanon from Syria. At that point, they asked the Arabian Kingdom for help.