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Since the start of the previous decade, and especially in the past four years, the Middle East has experienced upheavals that will change the face of the region for many years to come. This turmoil has several sources: the United States occupation of Iraq in 2003, which altered the country’s political structure and military capabilities for the foreseeable future; the sociopolitical turbulence, originally called the “Arab Spring,” experienced by many regimes in the Arab world; the growing strength of radical Islamic groups in the Arab world; and the appearance in the region of a new type of terrorist organization, which started with the rise of al-Qaeda and assumed a new, more extreme form with the Islamic State (IS) organization.