The main area of conflict seems to be Syria. It was a artificial state, now I see it as a battleground. Israel wants to create some buffer areas. Their main aim is to legitimize their status as a Jewis State. That's why they wanted to claim whole Jerusalem. Eviction of Palestinians are connected to rewriting history.Their all opponents have bitten dust except Iran. Now they want to wipe out Iran.
Iran isn't in a place to launch an open invasion. But, Iranian elites themselves looks like to be fighting among themselves for power. Internal conflicts within Iran and Israel(with all arab states) will not allow any of them to go to direct war.
War will happen no doubt, but it will be a hybrid war. With sanctions, false flag, regime change attempt etc. Small states like Lebanon and Jordon who have little geopolitical clout and almost no resources that can not be found any where are most vulnerable in future. War will eventually engulf them in next decade, they are the new battleground.
Russia and USA will fight from from behind the scenes. Putin won't directly invade any country, he's main objective is to safeguard Russia's security. Russia entered Syria because he feared ISIS's next target would be Caucasus(or Chechnya to be specific).
Jimmy Carter has been (lightly I think) tapped as an emissary to North Korea. I post this here because this is where I saw Jimmy Carter as a potential help towards peace in the middle east. And when I did the reading, I almost didn't include that because it came out of nowhere and seemed about as likely as an elephant taking flight. Now I think more than ever we have a large contingent of light forces working against this darkness.
Pray that Jimmy can stay involved on the world stage as a peace maker ?
https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/23/politics/jimmy-carter-north-korea/index.html