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title: "Who vs. Who in the Middle East? A Visual Map"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2006/8/27/who-vs-who-in-the-middle-east-a-visual-map.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2006/8/27/who-vs-who-in-the-middle-east-a-visual-map.html"
published: "2006-08-27T08:34:35"
updated: "2006-08-27T08:34:35"
tags: []
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "Update : Again, There seems to be a bug in community server - this post should not have ended up on the main feed - it has not tags relating to the main feed whatsoever! I'm not a political blogger, but just In case you…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
---

# Who vs. Who in the Middle East? A Visual Map

By Roy Osherove August 27, 2006

**Historical article** · Originally published August 27, 2006; technical details may be outdated.

_**Update**: Again, There seems to be  a bug in community server - this post should not have ended up on the main feed - it has not tags relating to the main feed whatsoever!_

I'm not a political blogger, but just In case you need a map to tell you who's fighting who in the middle each - [this should help](http://www.slate.com/features/2006mideast/middleeast.html)...


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## About the author

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