Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A cikin 2010, jerin zanga-zangar da aka yi a duk Arewacin Afirka da Gabas ta Tsakiya da aka sani da Spring Spring sun ɓarke, a ƙarshe sun zama mafi tsananin tashin hankali a ƙasashe da yawa. Obama ya taimaka wajen shirya wani yunkuri da NATO ta jagoranci
a Libya, wanda a karshe ya haifar da faduwar mulkin Muammar Gaddafi. Obama ya ki shiga cikin yakin basasar Siriya tsakanin gwamnatin Bashar al-Assad, 'yan adawar Siriya, da kungiyar Salafi jihadi da aka sani da ISIS. Amurka ta goyi bayan 'yan adawa a duk lokacin yakin basasa kuma lokaci-lokaci ta kai hare-hare kan ISIL. A 2014, bayan da Rasha ta mamaye Crimea kuma ta shiga tsakani a Ukraine, Obama da sauran shugabannin kasashen yamma sun sanya takunkumi wanda ya ba da gudummawa ga rikicin kudi na Rasha. Daga baya Rasha ta shiga cikin yakin basasar Siriya kuma an zarge ta da tsoma baki a zaben shugaban kasa na Amurka na 2016, inda gwamnatin Obama ta yi Allah wadai da ita.