The Middle East is the most strategic and shattered place in the world.
Examining the significance of the region, the natural endowment of the region has over several decades summoned the attention of regional and extra-regional powers of the world to interfere in the crisis in the Middle East, thereby intensifying all facets of differences and complexities in the region.
In a bid to examine the historical, socio-political and economic and religious dispositions of the region, political scientists and analysts have used the shatterbelt theory to describe the affairs of the region.
tag- All facts about the Arab-Israeli Conflicts
Formal US president, Donald Trump with Prime Minister of Israel, Natanyahu Benjamin
On December 6, President Trump made the announcement that the United States would be recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. A little background: When the British conquered Palestine in…
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“Impunity in the holy land. Will Israel be held to account for killing Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh?” (Al Jazeera). Shireen Abu Akleh was a Christian Palestinian journalist who…
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May 16, 2022
(Original Caption) 10/22/1980-Basra, Iraq- Iraqi troops riding in Soviet-made tanks head for a pontoon bridge in an effort to cross the Karum River northeast of Khurramshahr. The smoke in the background is from the Abadan pipeline. Sporadic fighting continues along the southern front in a month-old Gulf war, with Iraqi forces racing to build a 60-mile highway across the desert from Basra to consolidate their seige of the Iranian city of Ahwaz.
The Iran-Iraq war started in September 1980 when Iraqi forces officially began a full-scale invasion of Iran, a neighbouring country. Among the factors that led to the outbreak of the…
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April 21, 2022
During the Gulf War, a pair of American soldiers stand in the turret of an M1A1 Abrams tank as, near the border with Iraq, oil wells burn in the distance, Kuwait, March 20, 1991. (Photo by Allan Tannenbaum/Getty Images)
Emerging as a significant power in the Middle East after the indecisive war with neighbouring Iran, in August 1990, Iraqi president Saddam Hussein ordered the invasion and occupation of neighbouring…
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April 21, 2022
King Hussein of Jordan (1935 - 1999) is welcomed by officials upon his arrival in Khartoum to attend the Arab League Summit, Sudan, August 1967. The summit was held in the aftermath of the Six-Day War. (Photo by Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
The Arab League (the League of Arab States)is a union of Arabic-speaking African and Asian countries, formed in Cairo on March 22, 1945, to promote and advance “the independence, sovereignty, affairs, and…
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April 20, 2022
Soviet-built Egyptian SAM II anti-aircraft missiles captured by the Israelis on the western bank of the Suez Canal await transport to Israel during the Yom Kippur War, November 2, 1973. The Israelis captured a huge number of sophisticated Soviet weaponry during the conflict. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
On October 6, 1973, The Arabs still had the hope to regain back their lost territories to Israel during the third Arab-Israeli war of 1967. Therefore, Egypt and Syria launched…
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April 20, 2022
Israeli forces advancing in the Sinai desert during the Six-Day War, June 1967. (Photo by Central Press/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Assumed to have been precipitated by the Levant (Egypt, Jordan and Syria) state that made moves against Israel, the Six-Day War was fought based on miscalculated information and the influence…
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April 20, 2022
This picture taken on November 17, 2019 shows the Liberia-flagged container ship RDO Concord sailing through Egypt's Suez Canal in the canal's central hub city of Ismailia on the 150th anniversary of the canal's inauguration. - One hundred and fifty years after the Suez Canal opened, the international waterway is hugely significant to the economy of modern-day Egypt, which nationalised it in 1956. The canal, dug in the 19th century using "rudimentary tools" and which links the Mediterranean to the Red Sea, was opened to navigation in 1869 and was expanded in 2015 to accommodate larger ships. (Photo by Khaled DESOUKI / AFP) (Photo by KHALED DESOUKI/AFP via Getty Images)
The Suez Canal crisis of 1956 apparently internationalized the crisis in the Middle East for the first time. The then extra-regional powers that had been secretly influencing the crisis militarily…
As the British mandate expired and they pulled on May 14, 1948, the Israelis proclaimed their independence and the official state of Israel. And this state was quickly recognised by…
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April 20, 2022
Orthographic Projection of the Middle East. cr: Wikimedia
The Middle East is the most strategic and shattered place in the world. Examining the significance of the region, the natural endowment of the region has over several decades summoned…