: The Fall of Major Arab States After 1973 and Shifts in Regional Power**
After the victory of October 1973, the Arab world seemed poised on the threshold of a new era of strength and unity. Major cities—from Cairo to Damascus and Baghdad—celebrated with a fleeting sense of triumph, while the burning frontlines and volatile borders reminded everyone that peace remained elusive.
Yet history would not wait. In the decades that followed, major Arab states fell one after another—not solely due to military defeats, but as a result of internal conflicts, corruption, foreign interventions, and persistent sectarian and tribal divisions.
Iraq, initially appearing as a giant after the Iran-Iraq War, later collapsed following the first and second Gulf Wars, with the fall of Saddam Hussein’s regime
