World War I is commonly thought to have been an exclusively "European" war, but with the entry of the Ottoman Empire on the side of the Central Powers in Oct/Nov of 1914, the theater of war expanded considerably and Great Britain (and others) took advantage of the opportunity to make land grabs in the Middle East and hasten the death of the Ottoman Empire. Britian opened the southern front with the Gallipoli (1915) and Mesopotamia campaigns. (Gallipoli is admittedly on the southern tip of European Turkey, but I'm counting it as a case of fighting outside of "Europe" since it is well outside the area commonly thought of when referring to either the Eastern or Western fronts in this war.) In Mesopotamia the British captured Baghdad in March 1917. In Palestine, the initial failures of the British were overcome with the capture of Jerusalem in December of the same year and the Egyptian Expeditionary Force defeating the Ottoman forces at the Battle of Megiddo in September 1918. If we count the Caucuses as part of Asia (which it is on the south side), then we can talk about the battles between Russia and the Ottomans there. Turkish forces launched an offensive with 100,000 troops against the Russians in the Caucasus in December of 1914, but 86% of this force was lost. A major Russian offensive in 1916 drove the Turks out of much of present-day Armenia, and provided an excuse for the deportation and massacre (on the part of the Turks, who thought the Armenians would side with their Christian brethren) of the Armenian population in eastern Anatolia (modern-day Turkey).

Now that jonikpel mentions that, I do remember hearing about that front as well, however, what I really wanted to know was if there was any significant fighting in Africa. Edgar Rice Burroughs includes a WWI African campaign in one of his Tarzan novels. So, I was wondering if there really was fighting between the English and Germans in Africa at this time or was this just something that he made up to give Tarzan some way to contribute to the war effort.

I tend to think about Asia first, since that's kind of my thing. Sorry. Here's a brief bit about the African theater: In Africa, following the forced conscription of many hundreds of thousands of men (on both sides), there was some action on that continent. In fact, some of the first action of the war occurred in Africa. On August 8, 1914 the German protectorate of Togoland was invaded by a combined French and British force. On August 10, German forces based in South-West Africa attacked South Africa. Sporadic and often fierce fighting continued in Africa for the remainder of the war. In the West and South of Africa, the Allies attacked (along with Germany's port at Lome in Togo), Douala (in Cameroun), Swakopmund and Luderitz Bay (in South West Africa). In the East, German-held Dar Es Salaam was bombarded. In the North, the British fought to safeguard the Suez Canal (but to my knowledge there was no large-scale battle). The Allies brought German Southwest Africa under control in the first few months of action. Cameroon took longer to capture. The East Africa campaign took even longer, with the Germans led by German General von Lettow-Vorbeck (who was supposedly a brilliant military mind). There was also a good deal of fighting in Africa at this time that was not directly related to military campaigns. In Nysaland (now modern Malawi), the American-trained missionary John Chilembwe led an uprising, triggered by the high level of forced military recruitment of Nysas, many of whom were subsequently killed in large numbers in the first few weeks of fighting. Further south, a number of Afrikaners, sympathetic to Germany and hostile to the Allies, tried to raise an armed rebellion. This was put down by the British educated Afrikaner leader General Smuts (who later played an important military role against the Germans in the First World War and in the settlement afterwards).

There was one of the biggest battles of WWI on Dardanelles; North-Western bay of Aegean Sea in Anatolia. The British and French armies which includes Australian and New Zelland army corps come to capture the capital of Ottoman Empire (Constantinople) (Istanbul) First the Allies tried a Naval attempt but it didn't work then they tried an amphibius assult but after months of battle Ottoman Armies with leadership of Mustapha Kemal (also known as Ataturk) win the battle. On the sheet just the lost of Ottoman is 131.000 death with 262.000 wounded but the real numbers are more.