the Middle East 40 maps that explain the Middle East by Max Fisher on March 26, 2015. ... Jordan, Iraq, and Syria invaded. The middle map shows, in green, how far they pushed back the Jewish armies.

Despite the pandemonium in the Middle East, Sykes-Picot seems to be alive and well. That shouldn’t be surprising. Land borders settled via negotiation, especially when sealed by treaty, tend to be ...

They carved up the Middle East map with the stroke of a pen, and we have lived with the consequences ever since. ... From 1979-2003, Iraq was ruled by the tyrant Saddam Hussein, ...

Iraq is on the brink of a full-blown civil war. Who are these ISIS jihadists and how do they hope to change the map of the Middle East? What do other countries like Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Jordan ...

Fighters of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) celebrate on vehicles taken from Iraqi security forces, at a street in city of Mosul, June 12, 2014.

Now that the commotion of the Cedar Uprising uprising and Syria’s subsequent military withdrawal have settled into the calmer civic ritual of the recent Lebanese elections, the questions remain ...

The above map from Morgan Stanley illustrates why Iraq is crucial to the Middle East amid flaring sectarian tensions. Iran is 91% Shia, Iraq is 66% Shia, Syria is 16% Shia, and Lebanon is 30% Shia.

the Middle East 40 maps that explain the Middle East by Max Fisher on March 26, 2015. ... the "crescent" of land mostly includes modern-day Iraq, Syria, Jordan, and Israel-Palestine.

They carved up the Middle East map with the stroke of a pen, and we have lived with the consequences ever since. ... From 1979-2003, Iraq was ruled by the tyrant Saddam Hussein, ...