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Focus on politics, military news and security. Borders are likely to shift some more before the war is well and truly over. Explore Middle East local news alerts & todays headlines geolocated on live map on website or application. The Middle East includes the states of Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Yemen, Oman, United Arab Emirates, Qatar. So, is this the map that will replace the ones in our current atlases? Perhaps not. Map of Middle East and Middle East Countries Maps. The map also reflects the mainly unrecognised secession of Northern Cyprus (in dark blue), and the de facto secession of Hezbollah-dominated areas within Lebanon (in green) – both facts on the ground predating the Syrian conflict, and likely to survive it.What remains of Iraq is controlled in the south by the Shiite-dominated government in Baghdad (in light blue), and in the North by the Iraqi Kurds (in yellow).The IS’s territory is surrounded by enemies, but has the advantage of being contiguous, with the exception of two exclaves, one in southwest Iraq, and another one in southeast Syria. The Islamic State controls not only the largest part of Syria, but has also spilled over into Iraq, where it dominates mainly Sunni areas in the centre, up to and including the city of Mosul in the north.The SDF, by the way, are mainly Kurdish forces, and the area they control is often referred to as Rojava – Kurdish for ‘West’. Both are separated by the zone of contact between Turkey and Islamic State, although that zone has gotten a bit narrower since the takeover by the SDF of Manbij. Large parts of northern Syria are controlled by the Syrian Defence Forces (in red): a contiguous zone in the northeast, and a smaller zone in the northwest.Aleppo, in the north, is on the front line between government and rebel forces, with horrific consequences for the city and its people. The ‘official’ rebels (in green) control a fragmented archipelago of territories, spread across the north, middle and south of the country – also concentrated in the east, but without coastal access.The interior of the country is lost to government control, except a single light grey island in a sea of dark grey (for IS): the besieged city of Deir ez-Zor. The Syrian central government (in light grey), based in Damascus, controls a coastal strip of territory in a patchwork shared with a number of rebel forces.We hope you have fun learning the countries of the Middle East with this geography game. This is because they were too small to be easily selected with a mouse or recognized on the size of map we used. See if you can beat your friend's high score.Īlso, there are a few Middle Eastern countries not included in the game. However, one point will be deducted for each incorrect guess. This will continue until all the Middle Eastern countries (15 total) have been selected.Įach time you correctly select a Middle Eastern country on the map you will get 5 points. Once the correct country has been selected (or you have used up all your guesses), another country will appear at the top of the screen for you to select. If you get the Middle Eastern country correct within three guesses the country will turn green. You have three tries to select the correct country. Over the past 500 years, great changes have wracked the Middle East.The old powers of the region Egypt, the Hittites, Assyria and Babylon have all been devastated by invaders from outside their borders: the Sea Peoples from Europe, the Aramaeans from the Syrian desert and the Kuldu (Chaldeans) and other groups from the. The game begins asking you to click on the country of Saudi Arabia. What is happening in Middle East in 1000BCE Invaders. The more countries you correctly select, the higher the score you will get. The object of the game is to select the correct the Middle Eastern country in as few of guesses as possible.