This article needs additional citations for
verification. (October 2021) |
The Arab Mashreq international Road Network is an international road network between the primarily Arab countries of the Mashriq ( Syria, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Kuwait, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, UAE, Oman and Yemen). In addition, part of the network passes through Israel, which is not a party to the agreement that created it as well as non-Arab parts of the region. The network is a result of the 2001 Agreement on International Roads in the Arab Mashreq, a United Nations multilateral treaty that entered into force in 2003 and has been ratified by 13 of the 14 (all except Israel) countries that the network serves. [1] [2]
Number | Summary | Route | notes |
---|---|---|---|
Iraq, East Arabian Peninsula | Zakho- Mosul – Baghdad – Samawa – Basrah – Safwan Abdally – Kuwait City – Nuwayseeb Khafji – Abu Hadriyah – Dammam – Hufuf – Salwa – Batha'a – Al- Ghuwaifat – Abu Dhabi – Dubai – Fujairah – Kalba Khatmat Malahaw – Sohar – Muscat – Nizwa – Thumrayt – Salalah | The section Dammam – Hufuf – Salwa will eventually be replaced by the coastal road (Dammam – Salwa) upon its completion. Connected to the European route E90 of the European International E-road network | |
Abu Dhabi – Sohar | Abu Dhabi – Al-Ayn – Al-Buraimi – Sohar | ||
Al-Ayn – Nizwa | Al-Ain – Mazyad – Hafit – Nizwa | ||
Northern Iraq – East Mediterranean | Haj Omran – Erbil – Mosul – Rabieyyah Yaroubia – Qamishli – Aleppo – Lattakia | Connected to AH2 of the Asian Highway Network | |
Aleppo – Ramadi | Aleppo – Deir Ez-Zor – Albu Kamal Al-Qa'em – Ramadi | ||
Central Syria | Qamishli – Hasakah – Deir Ez-Zor – Homs – Tartus | ||
Petroleum Pipeline | Hadithah – Ar'ar – Hafar El-Batin – Abu Hadriyah | ||
Western Iraq – Eastern Mediterranean | Rutbah – Al-Walid Tanf – Damascus – Jedeidet Yabus Masna' – Beirut | ||
Middle Arabian peninsula | Amman – Azraq – Omari Hadithah – Sakakah – Ha'il – Burayda – Riyadh – Al Kharj | ||
Iraq, Jordan, Palestine, Western Israel, and the Mediterranean Southern Coast | Munthareya- Khanaqin – Baghdad – Ramadi – Rutbah – Tarabil Karamah – Al Azraq – Amman – King Hussein Bridge – Jerusalem – Ashdod – Gaza – Rafah – Arish – Kantara Bridge – Port Said – Alexandria – As Sallum | Connected to AH2 of the Asian Highway Network and Trans-African Highway Route 1 | |
Syria – Jordan – Saudi Arabia – Yemen | Bab Al Hawa – Aleppo – Homs – Damascus – Nasib Jaber - Alsarhan – Amman – Qetraneh – Jorof – Ma'an – Al Mudawara Halat Ammar – Tabuk – Qaliba – Medina – Mecca – Abha – Elb Baqim – Sanaa – Ta'izz | ||
Ma'an – Aqaba | Ma'an – Aqaba | ||
Baghdad – Cairo | Baghdad – Karbala – Al Nukhaib – Jedeidat Ar'ar Jedeidat Ar'ar – Ar'ar – Sakakah – Qaliba – Tabuk – Ad-Durra – Aqaba – Eilat – Nuweiba – Nekhel – Shatt – Cairo | ||
Eastern Mediterranean Coast | Kasab – Lattakia – Tartus – Dabboussieh Abboudieh – Tripoli – Beirut – Naqoura | ||
Sinai – East Red Sea | Arish – Nakhel – Nuweiba Eilat Aqaba – Ad-Durra – Dhuba – Yanbu – Rabigh – Jeddah – Darb – At Tuwal Harad – Hodeidah – Al-Mukha | ||
Western Saudi Arabia – Upper Egypt | Dhuba Safaga – Qena – Mutt | ||
Red Sea – West Coast | Ismailia – Suez – Safaga – Halayeb | ||
Kuwait – Yanbu | Al-Kuwait – As-Salmi Ar-Ruqi – Hafar al-Batin – Al Artawiyah – Burayda – Medina – Yanbu | Eventually a section will be added upon being completed, branching off from this route at Artawiya and heading east to Jubail via Abu Hadriya | |
Nile Valley | Alexandria – Cairo – Qena – Arqin | ||
Manama – Jeddah | Manama - King Fahd Causeway- Dammam – Riyadh – Mecca – Jeddah | ||
Doha – Ad-Darb | Doha – Abu Samra Salwah- Batha'a – Haradh – Al Kharj – Sulayyil – Abha – Ad-Darb | ||
Southern Arabian Peninsula | Thumrayt – Mazyounah Shahan – Al Ghaydah – Al- Mukalla – Aden – Ta'izz – Al-Mukha |
Other intercontinental highway systems: