List of modern conflicts in the Middle East


This is a list of modern conflicts ensuing in the geographic and political region known as the Middle East. The "Middle East" is traditionally defined as the Fertile Crescent, Levant, and Egypt and neighboring areas of Arabia, Anatolia and Iran. It currently encompasses the area from Egypt, Turkey and Cyprus in the west to Iran and the Persian Gulf in the east, and from Turkey and Iran in the north, to Yemen and Oman in the south.
  • Conflicts are separate incidents with at least 100 casualties, and are listed by total deaths, including sub-conflicts.
  • The term "modern" refers to the First World War and later period, in other words, since 1914.

    List of conflicts

Casualties breakdown

.Unification of Saudi Arabia
.Middle Eastern theatre of World War I of:
  • Caucasus campaign
  • Persian campaign
  • Gallipoli campaign
  • Mesopotamian campaign
  • Sinai and Palestine campaign
  • Arab Revolt
  • South Arabia
  • Armenian genocide – c 1.5 million dead
  • Sayfo – 150,000–300,000 dead
  • Great Famine of Mount Lebanon – 200,000 dead
.Turkish War of Independence :
.Iraqi–Kurdish conflict of:
.Middle Eastern theatre of World War II of:
.Iran crisis of 1946 :
.Arab–Israeli conflict :
.North Yemen civil war :
.Lebanese Civil War :
.Consolidation of the Iranian Revolution :
.Iran–Iraq War :
.Iraq War 2003–2011 :
.Sectarian conflict in Mandatory Palestine
.Egyptian Crisis
.Syrian civil war
.Iran–Israel proxy conflict
  • 2006 Lebanon War – 1,641 killed
  • Iran–Israel conflict during the Syrian civil war – several dozen killed