The middle eastern powder keg

Some regional leading characters : 

Syria : Bashar al-Assad (President)

Iraq : Adil Abdul-Mahdi (PM), Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani and Moqtada al-Sadr (Shia religious leaders)

Egypt : Abdel Fattah al-Sissi (President)

Yemen : Abdrabbo Mansour Hadi (PM, recognized by UN), Medhi Hussein al-Machat (Houthi leader)

Saudi Arabia : Mohammad bin Salman (crown prince)

United Arab Emirats : Mohammed Bin Zayed (crown prince of Abu Dhabi)

Qatar : Tamim ben Hamad Al Thani (Emir)

Turkey : Recep Tayyip Erdogan (President)

Autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan : Nêçîrvan Barzanî

Iran : Ali Khamenei (Supreme leader)

Hezbollah : Hassan Nasrallah (General secretary)

Hamas : Khaled Mashal (leader)

© Christophe Chabert