Across
- 6. A militant Islamic fundamentalist political movement that opposes peace with Israel, uses terrorism as a weapon, and operates out of Gaza
- 9. After Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990, the US led a coalition to remove Iraq from Kuwait and protect Saudi Arabia
- 10. A Jewish state located in the Middle East
- 14. The largest ethnic group in the Middle East and Northern Africa
- 15. A series of wars between Middle Eastern countries and Israel over the legitimacy of Israel's statehood
- 16. A territory in the Middle East, once home to largely Arab citizens, now occupied by a Jewish state
- 18. An international movement that promoted the founding of Israel as a Jewish state
- 20. A system of Islamic laws, sometimes interpreted harshly by governmental regimes
Down
- 1. Separating religious influence from the government
- 2. Palestinian uprisings against Israeli occupation in the West Bank and Gaza
- 3. After the Iranian Revolution, this became Iran's form of government
- 4. A pro-democratic wave of protests in Northern Africa and the Middle East that began in 2011
- 5. An ethnic group, who doesn't have a country, that is separated between multiple Middle Eastern countries
- 7. A tenet of Islam defined by human's struggle to promote what is right and prevent what is wrong
- 8. A political, economic, and cultural organization bonded by Arab unity and development
- 11. An economic organization consisting primarily of Arab nations that controls the price of oil and the amount of oil its members produce and sell to other nations
- 12. The main natural resource that OPEC regulates on a global scale
- 13. The name of the Accords that ended the first intifada and granted Palestinian self-rule in Gaza and West Bank
- 17. A group of fundamentalist extremists-Muslims who took control of Afghanistan's government
- 19. US invaded this country to remove Saddam Hussein from office and disarm this country of Weapons of Mass Destruction