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The Ottoman Empire, with assistance from Germany and Japan, tried to regain some power, for it had shrunk hugely since its peak in the 16 and 1700s. However, the Central Powers lost the war, and the Ottoman Empire died away.
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In World War 2, the fight was based in eastern Europe, near the Meditteranean. Since the British controlled a lot of land in the Middle East, it used the area to its advantage. This helped the Allied Forces win the war.
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Jewish people had endured the Holocaust and so many other things. The United Nations took away land from Palestine and created Israel. This created a lot of conflict in that area.
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The Suez Canal was being competed for by Egypt and Britain and France. The U.S. and the Soviet Union used economic funding and nuclear threats to stop the British and French from causing more conflict. They gave up, knowing that they could not be the Soviet Union, the U.S., and Egypt in a fight.
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The Iraqi-Kurdish conflict consisted of the several battles between the Kurds and Iraqi authority. This fight went on until the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003.
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Israel fought with Egypt, Jordan, and Syria over land that made up the area around Lebanon and the Palestinian territories.
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Saddam Hussein, the leader of Iraq, invaded Kuwait. The U.S. defends Kuwait and keeps Iraq from capturing the oil-rich country.
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During the Qamishli Massacre, after a football game, people began raising pictures of Saddam Hussein and the Kurdish flag. What started as stone-throwing turned into a full-fledged political conflict.
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In this conflict, the U.S. issued the bombing of Yemen. We dropped more bombs in March than all of the last years. This shows our increased "war footprint" in the Middle East.
