The Arab army entered Damascus on 30 September 1918 and on 8 October the English army entered Beirut then British General Edmund Allenby entered Syria and met with the Arab army in Damascus. On 18 October, the Ottomans left Tripoli and Homs and on 26 October 1918, British and Arab army headed north until they met the last Ottoman forces under the command of Turkish commander Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, and a fierce battle was happend near to Aleppo in an area later renamed "the English Tomb". On 30 October 1918, A Mudros armistice was concluded that all Ottoman forces surrendered and the Ottoman Empire accepted its abandonment of the Levant, Iraq, Hejaz, Asir and Yemen.