User:XW3 AR3 L3GION/Middle Eastern Crisis

"It began with a man setting himself on fire and end with the oilfields going up in flames closely followed by the worlds economy."

- Unknown Arab Revolutionary

The Middle Eastern Crisis, also known as the 2010-2016 Arab World Protests, was an unprecedented series of major uprisings, demonstrations and and protests in the Arab countries of Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen, Algeria, Jordan, Mauritania, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Sudan, Syria, Libya, Iran, Lebanon and Morocco. The majority of these countries governments were overthrown and replaced with democratic regimes and was vital to the formation of the Coalition of Middle Eastern States.

The Middle Eastern Crisis came to a climax with the revolutions in Saudi Arabia, where upon believing to have lost control of his citizens and his military, {http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdullah_of_Saudi_Arabia King Abdullah bin Abdul-Aziz} ordered his own personal military force the {http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudi_Arabian_National_Guard Saudi Arabian National Guard} to set the countries remaining oilfields on fire. The move was to ensure any successful revolution would be a pyrrhic uprising.