Isis support in Philippines increasing and a battle to control a city (Marawi) has started.

[AsGryffynn]

barneystinson69 said:

AsGryffynn said:
Before you all end up embroiled in a debacle involving semantics and linguistic fads, Asia Minor has been used to refer to anything east of the Bosphorus. The Near East has been used to refer to what would be considered Turkey, the Middle East is a rather new term used to refer to Arabia and Persia and the Far East to East and Southern/Southeast Asia.

East = Asia. The only exception is really Russia, which isn't an exception because most work in the Northern Districts that are between the Sarmatic region and the Urals, which are considered European.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near_East

It isn't called the "near-east" anymore. Otherwise, the balkans could also be part of it. Also, Turkey is part of the Middle East as well.

Hence past tense. >P