Many of the conflicts in the Middle East over the past several decades are the focus of a Middle Eastern cold war between

HISTORY OF THE MIDDLE EAST

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Many of the conflicts in the Middle East over the past several decades are the focus of a Middle Eastern ‘cold war’ between

A	Israel and Lebanon.
B	Saudi Arabia and Iran.
C	Turkey and Armenia.
D	Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan.

Explanation:

Detailed explanation-1: -The major conflicts in the Middle East include the ongoing conflicts between Israel and Palestine and the civil war in Yemen, which is a proxy conflict between Saudi Arabi and Iran. Previous major conflicts have included a number of wars between Israel and Arab countries and the Lebanese Civil War.

Detailed explanation-2: -By 1960, Iraq, Tunisia, Algeria, and North Yemen had republican governments or Arab nationalist insurgencies while Lebanon had a near-civil war between factions within the government which were US-aligned and Arab nationalist factions within the government which were Soviet-and Egyptian-aligned.

Detailed explanation-3: -This is, in numbers, the most affected region: more than 45 armed conflicts are currently taking place throughout the Middle East and North Africa in the following territories: Cyprus, Egypt, Iraq, Israel, Libya, Morocco, Palestine, Syria, Turkey, Yemen and Western Sahara.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Soviet Union used its relationship with Western Europe to gain favourable economic cooperation with the Arab world during the Cold War, and gained influence in the Middle East by inciting proxy conflicts between the Arab states and their Jewish neighbour.

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