Recently, Time magazine considered 2020 "the worst year in history", as for many, 2020 will remain immortal in memory due to the outbreak of novel Coronavirus. This very tiny organism changed social, human habits all across the world.
Although this incident was the most prominent in this year, but it was not the only one.
The Arab region and the Middle East have witnessed important changes, perhaps the most prominent of which is the assassination of the commander of the Quds Force in the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, Qassem Suleimani.
On January 3, the Iranian top general, an architect of his country's strategy in the Middle East, was killed by a U.S. drone strike in Baghdad, after an attack on the US embassy by Iraqi demonstrators loyal to Iran.
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The car which has Suleimani on board, targeted by a U.S. missile[/caption]
On January 8, Iran responded by firing missiles at bases harboring US soldiers in Iraq. It also shot down a Ukrainian airliner "by mistake" hours later, killing 176 people.
On January 10, the Sultan of Oman, Qaboos bin Said, died at the age of 79, after spending half a century in power. The late, who came to power after a coup against his father in 1970, known for his role in international mediation as he pursued the policy of "everyone's friend" and worked as a mediator in the region, especially between Iran and the United States on the nuclear agreement signed in 2015.
He also had a role in Attempt to bring the parties to the conflict in Yemen to the negotiating table with the outbreak of the Gulf crisis.
On August 4, a huge blast occurred in the port of Beirut, reaching out to areas tens of kilometers from the city, killing hundreds and wounding thousands in addition to sending about 300,00 people homeless.
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Heavy smoke seen from the ares of the port blast[/caption]
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Heavy smoke seen rising from the port blast[/caption]
This huge explosion was caused by 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate, which had been stored for six years in a warehouse in the port.
The pressure of the blast blew out windows at Beirut International Airport nine kilometers (more than five miles) away.
In the context of this case, the caretaker prime minister, Hassan Diab, and three former ministers were charged with "negligence and causing death."
On October 16, the 3-decade standing ceasefire between Morocco and the Polisario Front militants, collapsed following clashes between the two parties along the wall that separates them in Western Sahara, which extends for nearly 2,700 kilometers.
And over the course of the last quarter of the year, a wave of normalization pacts with Israel were agreed and partially inked, including the UAE, Bahrain, Sudan and Morocco.
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UAE FM & Israel's Netanyahu[/caption]
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