The early hopes that these popular movements would end Process_end corruption , increase Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale political participation , and bring about Causation greater economic equity quickly collapsed Destroying in the wake of the counter-revolutionary moves by foreign state actors in Yemen and of the Saudi–UAE-linked military deep state in Egypt , the regional and international military interventions Response in Bahrain and Yemen , and the destructive Destroying civil wars Military_operation in Syria , Iraq , Libya and Yemen .