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The "Middle East" is traditionally defined as the Fertile Crescent (Mesopotamia), Levant, and Egypt and neighboring areas of Arabia, Anatolia and Iran. It currently encompasses the area from Egypt , Turkey and Cyprus in the west to Iran and the Persian Gulf in the east, [ 1 ] and from Turkey and Iran in the north, to Yemen and Oman in the south.
Middle Eastern crisis Part of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, the Palestinian internal political violence, the Israel–Lebanon conflict, the Iran–Israel proxy conflict, the Arab–Israeli conflict, and the spillover of the Israel–Hamas war Clockwise from top: Fires in the Gaza envelope following the October 7 Hamas-led attack on Israel, damage from the Israeli bombing of the Gaza ...
During the 2023 Hamas–Israel War, the Arab League countries refrained from officially interfering in the conflict initiated by the Iranian proxy Hamas. According to Foreign Affairs, the Hamas War has fractured the Arab World, [153] and Hamas failed to raise support across the Middle East, [154] except among Iranian-affiliated organizations ...
Israel, which is widely believed to be the Middle East's only nuclear-armed state though neither confirms nor denies that it possesses such weapons, has long considered Tehran's nuclear programme ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden said on Wednesday an all-out war was possible in the Middle East but there was also the possibility of a settlement in Israel's conflicts in Gaza and ...
Map of the Middle East between North Africa, Southern Europe, Central Asia, and Southern Asia Middle East map of Köppen climate classification. The Middle East (term originally coined in English language) [note 1] is a geopolitical region encompassing the Arabian Peninsula, the Levant, Turkey, Egypt, Iran, and Iraq.
This is a list of conflicts in the Near East arranged chronologically from the epipaleolithic until the end of the late modern period (c. 20,000 years Before Present – c. AD 1945). The Near East is generally associated with Anatolia , the Levant , Mesopotamia , Persia , Egypt , the Arabian Peninsula , and the Caucasus .
Oct. 8, 2023: Israel declares war against Hamas. A counterattack by Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip, one of two Palestinian territories, kills more than 400 people, including 78 children.