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This timeline tries to compile dates of important historical events that happened in or that led to the rise of the Middle East. The Middle East is the territory that comprises today's Egypt, the Persian Gulf states, Iran, Iraq, Israel and Palestine, Cyprus, Jordan, Lebanon, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, and Yemen. The Middle East, with its particular characteristics ...
This is a list of modern conflicts in the Middle Eastensuing in the geographic and political region known as the Middle East. The "Middle East" is traditionally defined as the Fertile Crescent(Mesopotamia), Levant, and Egyptand neighboring areas of Arabia, Anatoliaand Iran. It currently encompasses the area from Egypt, Turkeyand Cyprusin the west to Iranand the Persian Gulfin the east,[1]and ...
2 November. On the morning of 2 November 2023, during the 2023 Israel–Hamas war, unknown Palestinian assailants, called terrorists by the Hebrew YNet news, overtook an Israeli vehicle near Beit Lid in the occupied West Bank and shot at the driver, an Israeli settler in IDF uniform.
The conflict between Israel and Hamas militants in Gaza has set off a chain reaction in the Middle East, and Western officials are increasingly concerned that it could trigger a wider war that ...
Eight days before Hamas launched its fatal attack on Israel, National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan had described the Middle East region as “quieter” than it had been in two decades. He ...
May 15, 2024 at 4:01 AM. JERUSALEM (AP) — Palestinians across the Middle East on Wednesday are marking the anniversary of their mass expulsion from what is now Israel with protests and other ...
Starting on 17 October 2023, and in response to United States support for Israel in the Israel–Hamas war, Iran -backed militias initiated a coordinated series of more than 170 attacks on U.S. military bases and assets in Syria, Iraq, and Jordan. [33] [34] [35] These attacks resulted in injuries to dozens of U.S. service members. In retaliation, the U.S. has launched multiple counterattacks ...
The Middle East, also known as the Near East, is home to one of the Cradles of Civilization and has seen many of the world's oldest cultures and civilizations. The region's history started from the earliest human settlements and continues through several major pre- and post-Islamic Empires to today's nation-states of the Middle East.