by PATRICK COCKBURN
We live in an age of disintegration. Nowhere is this more evident than in the Greater Middle East and Africa. Across the vast swath of territory between Pakistan and Nigeria, there are at least seven ongoing wars — in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Libya, Somalia and South Sudan.
These conflicts are extraordinarily destructive. They are tearing apart the countries in which they are taking place in ways that make it doubtful they will ever recover. Cities such as Aleppo in Syria, Ramadi in Iraq, Taiz in Yemen and Benghazi in Libya have been partly or entirely reduced to ruins.
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