The Muslim World

 The Muslim World has been quite unstable in the late 20th century and early 21st century.

Fundamentalism has emerged in many Muslim nations since the late 1990s and has used terrorism as a way to achieve their objectives.The main Fundamentalist terrorist group is Al Qaeda, which was founded and funded by the Saudi billionaire Osama Bin Laden, who was eventually killed by an American corps on 1st May 2011. Nowadays, DAESH is the most important fundamentalist terrorist group.

There have been some revolutions in many Muslim countries in the early 2010s claiming for democratic regimes and the end of the dictatorships that have controlled the area for  a long time; it is the so-called Arab Spring:

• Tunisia was the first country where a massive revolution managed to depose the government of Ben Ali in January 2011. A democratic regime has been established in the country.
• Egypt was the most populated country where a revolution took place in the Islamic world. After some weeks of revolution Hosni Mubarak (who had ruled the country since 1981) was eventually overthrown in February 2011. There is a quite instable and unresolved situation in Egypt at the moment.
• In Libya there had been a personal dictatorship by Muammar al-Gaddafi since 1969. Gaddafi was eventually captured and killed in October 2011. The Libyan situation is still quite unclear.
• In Yemen the revolution eventually managed to oust the government of Saleh in February 2012.
• In Syria there has been a civil war since March 2011.
• Other minor revolts have taken place in Morocco, Algeria, Sudan, Bahrain, Oman, Kuwait, and Jordan.