Question: Who was victorious during World, War Two in the Mediterranean area the Axis or Allies?
About the article "World War II", section "Mediterranean (1940–41)".

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The Axis powers (, "Sūjikukoku", ), also known as the Axis alliance, Axis nations, Axis countries, or the Axis, were the nations that fought in the Second World War against the Allied forces.
The Axis powers were united by their opposition to the Western world and the Soviet Union.
They described their goals as breaking the hegemony of plutocratic-capitalist Western powers and defending civilization from communism.
The Axis grew out of the Anti-Comintern Pact, an anti-communist treaty signed by Germany and Japan in 1936.
Italy joined the Pact in 1937.
The "Rome–Berlin Axis" became a military alliance in 1939 under the Pact of Steel, with the Tripartite Pact of 1940 leading to the integration of the military aims of Germany and its two treaty-bound allies.
At its zenith during World War II, the Axis presided over territories that occupied large parts of Europe, Africa, and Asia.
The war ended in 1945 with the defeat of the Axis powers and the dissolution of their alliance.
As in the case of the Allies, membership of the Axis was fluid, with some nations switching sides or changing their degree of military involvement over the course of the war. 
 "This page deals with the United States Army's Mediterranean Theater of Operations.
See Mediterranean Theatre of World War II for more details of other campaigns in the theater."
The Mediterranean Theater of Operations, United States Army (MTOUSA) was originally called North African Theater of Operations (NATOUSA).
It is the American term for the theater of operations between the Allies and Axis Powers in North Africa and Italy during World War II.
US operations in the theater began with of the Allied Expeditionary Force, which landed on the beaches of northwest Africa on November 8, 1942, in Operation Torch.
They ended in the Italian Alps some 31 months later with the German surrender in May 1945. 
Allied war crimes include both alleged and legally proven violations of the laws of war by the Allies during World War II against either civilians or military personnel of the Axis Powers.
At the end of World War II, many trials of Axis war criminals took place, most famously the Nuremberg Trials and Tokyo Trials.
However, in Europe, these tribunals were set up under the authority of the London Charter, which only considered allegations of war crimes committed by persons who acted in the interests of the European Axis countries.
There were a number of war crimes involving Allied personnel that were investigated by the Allied powers and that led in some instances to courts-martial.
Some incidents alleged by historians to have been crimes under the law of war in operation at the time were, for a variety of reasons, not investigated by the Allied powers during the war, or they were investigated and a decision was taken not to prosecute. 
The highway was fully paved.
However in World War II, during the Western Desert Campaign of the Allies North African Campaign, the road was heavily used in fighting the Axis command, and remained damaged for decades. 
During World War II, the Arab Legion took part in the British war effort against pro-Axis forces in the Mediterranean and Middle East Theatre.
By then the force had grown to 1,600 men.
The Legion, part of Iraqforce, contributed significantly in the Anglo-Iraqi War and in the Syria-Lebanon campaign, the two decisive early victories for the Allies.
The top three officers representing the Legion who participated in the Victory March were Major General Abdul Qadir Pasha el Jundi, O.B.E., Colonel Bahjat Bey Tabbara, and Lieutenant Colonel Ahmed Sudqui Bey, M.B.E.