The Arab Mashreq international Road Network is an international road network between the primarily Arab countries of the Mashriq (Syria, Iraq, Jordan, Palestine, 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 | |||
| Al-Ayn – Nizwa | Al-Ain – Mazyad – Hafit – Nizwa | ||
| Northern Iraq – East Mediterranean | Connected to AH2 of the Asian Highway Network | ||
| Aleppo – Ramadi | |||
| Central Syria | |||
| Petroleum Pipeline | Hadithah – Ar'ar – Hafar El-Batin – Abu Hadriyah | ||
| Western Iraq – Eastern Mediterranean | |||
| Middle Arabian peninsula | |||
| Iraq, Jordan, Palestine, and the Mediterranean Southern Coast | Connected to AH2 of the Asian Highway Network and Trans-African Highway Route 1 | ||
| Syria – Jordan – Saudi Arabia – Yemen | |||
| Ma'an – Aqaba | |||
| Baghdad – Cairo | |||
| Eastern Mediterranean Coast | |||
| Sinai – East Red Sea | |||
| Western Saudi Arabia – Upper Egypt | |||
| Red Sea – West Coast | |||
| Kuwait – 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 | |||
| Manama – Jeddah | |||
| Doha – Ad-Darb | |||
| Southern Arabian Peninsula | Thumrayt – Mazyounah Shahan – Al Ghaydah – Al-Mukalla – Aden – Ta'izz – Al-Mukha | ||
Other intercontinental highway systems: