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This is a '''list of modern conflicts in the Middle East''' ensuing in the geographic and political region known as the [[Middle East]]. The "Middle East" is traditionally defined as the [[Fertile Crescent]] ([[Mesopotamia]]), [[Levant]], and [[Lower Egypt|Egypt]] and neighboring areas of [[Arabian Peninsula|Arabia]], [[Anatolia]] and [[Iranian Plateau|Iran]]. It currently encompasses the area from [[Egypt]], [[Turkey]] and [[Cyprus]] in the west to [[Iran]] and the [[Persian Gulf]] in the east,<ref>Albert Hourani et al., ''The Modern Middle East: A Reader.'' 1993: p. 2.</ref> 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.<ref name="warlist"/>
* The term "modern" refers to the
==List of conflicts==
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