What countries are currently fighting in the Middle East?

There were seven countries with active armed conflicts in the Middle East and North Africa in 2019 (the same as in 2018): Egypt (high-intensity, subnational armed conflict), Iraq (internationalized civil war), Israel (low-intensity, extrastate armed conflict), Libya (internationalized civil war), Syria (major …

How long has the Middle East been in conflict?

Sectarian conflict has been said to date back 1,400 years to the founding of Islam, and we frequently hear, as Fox news viewers did this week, that somehow people in the region are irrational, stubbornly embroiled in ancient conflicts and unable to join the modern world.

Are there any wars in the Middle East Today?

So there have been plenty of wars in the Middle East but most all of them have ended sooner or later. In that regard it’s no different than any other region on earth. Yes, there will always be war. But statistics show that wars are ending more quickly than they used to. And most conflicts are actually less bloody than wars used to be.

Will War and conflict ever end?

War and conflict in general will never end as long as human beings are seperated in various ways such as in religion, language, culture, custom, class structure, economic structure, etc. The Middle East is an example of such divisions between human beings.

How many people died in the Middle East in WW2?

[d]. ^ Middle Eastern theatre of World War II (combined casualty figure 12,338–14,898+) of: Anglo-Iraqi War – at least 560 killed. Farhud 175–780 killed. Syria–Lebanon Campaign 10,404–12,964 killed. Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran 100 – 1,062 killed. Bombing of Palestine in World War II 137 deaths. Bombing of Bahrain in World War II – unknown.

Did WW2 have a Middle Eastern Theater?

WW2 has a Middle Eastern theater but that war ended in 1945. There was a Syrian Revolution in 1963 that was over the same year. The Jordanian/Palestinian Civil War lasted from 1970 to 1971. The Iran/Iraq War was over in 1988.