[b][u]The Middle East[/u][/b]
When the Heavenfall struck, it had resounding effects across the Middle Eastern region. Many saw it as a sign that divine providence had been wrought the Westerners and their decadent, heathen ways. Others saw it as more of a practical opportunity, as their nations were relieved or liberated from the interference of either East or West nations and their politics and armed forces. 
In many places, tribal, religious and ethnic conflicts broke out, and coups or revolutions occurred, overthrowing the legitimate governments. 
In many places, this warfare became tremendously destructive, and even resulted in the deployment of weapons of mass destruction, resulting in large swathes of land that are, still to this day, uninhabitable and with nothing but irradiated ruins slowly being reclaimed by the deserts around them. 

[b]Cyprus[/b]
Cyprus remained a stable ally and member of the Western Bloc during the Cold War, but was beset by numerous short, intense skirmishes as Turkish and Greek forces clashed over historical claims over the island. These never escalated into full war, but there were numerous incidents of clashes between their military forces, including aerial engagements as no-fly zones were breached, and even clashes between armoured vehicles. 
The Heavenfall put an end to much of this, as both Greece and Turkey suffered extensively from Earthquake damage, and Cyprus itself was also affected, along with tremendous amounts of flooding as a result of the same activity, and the later rising sea levels. 
As such, following the disaster, both nations put aside their differences and contributed to the reconstruction efforts, and engaged in mutual aid for Cyprus. Since then, the island nation has been relatively stable, and is slowly being repopulated as development increased. 

[b]Turkey[/b]
Turkey was a key ally to the West during the Cold War as an active member of NATO. Turkey was often a base for launching intelligence operations, overflights and other such operations against the USSR, and strategic and tactical forces were often based within Turkey, especially as relations soured over the latter years of the ongoing conflict. 
However, when the Heavenfall happened, the country was wracked by extensive earthquakes that destroyed large areas of historical significance and lead to extensive loss of life, infrastructure, and resources. 
Turkey was, luckily, well-organised and equipped to respond, but the chaos gave an opportunity for the large Kurdish population in the South East of the country to seize the initiative to act against the government and take control of territory that had long been believed to be their birthright, along with regions of Iraq, Iran and Syria to form an independent Kurdistan.
Turkey was unable to wrestle full control of this region, instead negotiating for peaceful transfer of the region, and the freedom of people in the region to move between Kurdistan and Turkey. 

Following the reconstruction after the Heavenfall, Turkey has maintained a strong economic presence, and has a developed industrial and commercial sector. Turkish defence companies export products worldwide, and some of these companies are among the globally recognised brands and names. 

[b]Kurdistan[/b]
The nation of Kurdistan is young in terms of borders and recognition, but old as a concept. The ethnic Kurdish people have long inhabited the area, comprising parts of Iraq, Iran, Syria and Turkey, and have long fought in insurgent actions against the people in those areas, often to defend themselves and their traditions, customs, beliefs and way of life. 
Following the Heavenfall and the chaos that followed, as well as regional violence that resulted in the dissolution of several formerly prominent powers in the region, the ethnic Kurdish people seized the initiative to establish their own nation. It has been a long and bloody process, with a lot of mis-steps and difficulties, but the nation has become formally recognised by the NCAA, CAA and Chinese governments, receiving economic and material aid from them, as well as investment from Megacorporations in the region. The N/UN and Scandinavian Alliance have not formally recognised the nation as yet, and due to its' relative infancy, it has little in the way of military power, with the transition of freedom fighters and former insurgent forces into an organised, standing armed force being a difficult one, along with the establishing of a democratic government, and all that goes with it. 

[b]Egypt[/b]
As one of the oldest civilizations in the world, and certainly in the region, Egypt managed to weather both the Cold War, and the Heavenfall relatively intact. The stresses and disasters of the impact didn't manage to topple the ancient wonders that had endured the ages, like the pyramids, sphinx, and other iconic and world-renowned monuments that the country called home. 
Egypt remained on the side of the West during the Cold War, despite several flirtations and wobbles toward Eastern influences and courting, but this only served to allow Egypt to be a mediator between both sides, and similarly a middle-ground between the Arab nations of the middle east and the Western nations. 
Egypt managed to endure the depridations of the post-Heavenfall world, but this was only through many harsh enforcements of law and policies internally, several of which lead to violent clashes that were seen as violations of human rights by the international community, and lead to harsh criticism from the United Nations. 
As a result of this, they were not invited to join the N/UN, but remain an allied, independent country. 

[b]The Levant[/b]
Historically the most contested and controversial area in the Middle-East region, the Levant - consisting generally of Israel, Palestine, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon - the Levant area was tumultuous during the Cold War, as Soviet powers supported numerous insurgent groups and powers in the area, in defiance of sanctions placed by western powers and NATO. The continued economic and military support of the USSR in the region to counter western influence and especially American influence and stoking or exploting regional conflicts only served to intensify the violence and unrest in the area. This resulted in open warfare on several occasions, with Israel engaging in unilateral action without support from UN powers, and regardless of condemnation for their actions. 
The conflict escalated, with all-out war on the horizon, with numerous small-scale conflicts already in progress. When the Heavenfall happened, it put a halt to this, only for, once the dust had settled, the conflict to reemerge, with Syrian, Palestinian, Jordanian and Iraqi armed forces engaging in a full-on war against Israel, including bombardment with chemical and biological weapons. Israeli forces retaliated with their own Nuclear weapons, as well as full-scale strikes. The other nations retaliated with full strikes of their own using NBCR weapons (nuclear, biological, chemical and radiological or 'dirty' bombs) and other such 'scorched earth' tactics, such as dumping industrial waste-products; and the end result was a terrible holocaust of destruction that swept the region, leaving vast areas of land uninhabitable, dotted with shattered ruins and burned-out remnants of lives and communities. The capitals and major settlements of the main countries in the area have all been reduced to cinders and ashes, and the populations dispersed, leaving what is left a hollow shell of what it used to be, with no dominant power to the area and no organised forces of any kind.

[b]The Arabian Peninsula[/b]
[i]Author's note: for the sake of grouping by geographical region and by areas that influence and interact with one another, Iran is included in this section, despite not being on the peninsula.[/i]

With the conflict over Israel and the Levant region, and with Soviet and Western influences clashing in the region as part of their proxy conflicts, the Arabian Peninsula was affected by the fallout from the ongoing conflicts in the area. While Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, Oman and the UAE had long been Western allies and had mostly stable governments; while Yemen had been more unsetlled. However, with the ongoing conflicts over the Levant reason and the fomenting of discord against the West by the USSR, and their support for the regimes of Iraq, Iran, and other anti-western movements, insurgencies and conflicts started to crop up more in the area, further fuelled by internal dissent as various ethnic and religiously aligned ideological groups vocally supported or opposed action in support of the ongoing conflicts in Israel, Lebanon, Palestine and that region, or in relation to the conflicts that rose as result of that. 
As the Heavenfall struck, the seismic activity ravaged the area, along with upheavals of flooding and other natural disasters, as well as the general destruction. In the void of influence from the USSR and Western powers, tribal, religious and ethnic conflicts ignited, resulting in the established governments struggling to maintain control and authority over the region and peaceful and secure situations for their citizens. 

Iraq and Iran engaged in a protracted conflict, picking up on earlier unresolved issues and conflicts. While this did not lead to the extensive use of WMD's, the conventional conflict was drawn-out and exhaustive, and has resulted in Iraq's government being essentially defunct and lacking in any realistic ability to enforce or control policy, and Iran being essentially victorious, and the head of a movement Islamic Supremacist League in the middle east. This movement is renowned for sponsoring and openly declaring its' support of insurgencies worldwide - particularly in South-East Asia and northern Africa. The ISL is mostly independent, having ideological conflicts with most other world powers in one way or another, but does maintain trade out of necessity with the NCAA and other unaligned powers. Frequently they manufacture unlicenced copies (or frankly, knockoffs), of other manufacturers weapons, vehicles, equipment, appliances, and devices, sometimes utilising inventive and creative workarounds for restricted components, though often producing somewhat inferior copies, albeit more affordable ones, en masse. Through their efforts, this has also lead to a proliferation of what would otherwise be obsolete designs being given extended lease of life due to the ready availability of spares or even upgrades bringing them at least to serviceable and respectable standard, if not modern ones, and having the willing to sell their product to even the smallest and most outspoken of groups, and giving them access to military-grade weaponry.