Middle East & North Africa

Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, today’s de facto ruler of Damascus, has an eloquent history: he began his jihadist militancy in al-Qaeda’s ranks as an associate of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the “caliph” who founded ISIS, the Islamic State of Iraq and

A complex network of Al Qaeda affiliated terrorist organizations overseen by US and allied intelligence agencies has unfolded, extending across the Middle East, North Africa, sub-Saharan Africa, Central Asia, Western China, South and South East Asia.
Libya is among the World's largest oil economies with approximately 3.5% of global oil reserves, more than twice those of the US.
The Iraqi parliament suspended the corrupt 2014 agreement with the Obama administration which invited the US to lead a fake counterterrorism operation directed against the Islamic State (ISIS-Daesh), made up of mercenaries who are funded, trained and recruited by US-NATO, with the support of Saudi Arabia and the UAE.
Russian IL-20
Russia Is Already “Balancing” Iran in the Mideast By Andrew Korybko, May 14, 2018
Sieges, Bombs, Embassies: How Attacks on American Diplomats Have Shaped Policy By Daniel Hilton, May 14, 2018
Gearing Up for the Third Gulf War By Michael T. Klare, May 14, 2018
Killing Gaza By Chris Hedges, May 14, 2018
Israel Repurposes Nakba Myths to Justify Today’s Massacre in Gaza By Jonathan Cook, May 14, 2018
Israel at Seventy: Symbol of War, Racism, Reaction By Joyce Chediac, May 14, 2018
Reasons Trump Breaks Nuclear-Sanction Agreement with Iran, Declares Trade War with China and Meets with North Korea By Prof. James Petras, May 14, 2018
High Alert for Palestinian Slaughter and Conflict with Iran By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, May 14, 2018
Do You Want to Travel Around the Middle East? Think Twice! By Andre Vltchek, May 14, 2018
The Opening of a U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem: Full-Fledged Apartheid By Dr. Husam Zomlot, May 14, 2018
The War on Syria and the Astana Peace Process: Time to Make China Fourth Guarantor State By Peter Korzun, May 13, 2018
Media Debate Best Way to Dominate Iran By Gregory Shupak, May 13, 2018
Chemical Attack Accusations ‘Fake’: Bashar Al-Assad Interview By Bashar al Assad, May 13, 2018
Putin-Netanyahu Summit in Moscow. Russia Is “Urging” Syria to “Compromise”, Now! By Andrew Korybko, May 13, 2018
Israel Baits the Hook. Will Syria Bite? By Tony Cartalucci, May 13, 2018
UK Has Sold $1 Billion of Weapons to Turkey Since Coup Attempt By Jamie Merrill, May 13, 2018
The Non-Profit Industrial Complex and “The Parallel Left” By Michael Welch, Bob A. Feldman, and Cory Morningstar, May 13, 2018
The Summer of War and Chaos: US-Israel Plan to Balkanize the Middle East By Timothy Alexander Guzman, May 12, 2018
Two Interrogations, Gina Haspel and Adolf Eichmann By Brian Terrell, May 12, 2018
Geopolitical Implications of the Israel-Russia Relationship: Netanyahu in Moscow for Victory Day 2018 Celebration By Andrew Korybko, May 12, 2018
Unmasking the White Helmets By Colonel W. Patrick Lang, May 12, 2018
World Diplomats Skip US Embassy Opening Ceremony in Jerusalem By Press TV, May 12, 2018
70th Anniversary of Apartheid Israel: History of Violent Invasion. Chronology of Palestinian Genocide By Gideon Polya, May 12, 2018
Iran Breaks the Rules of Engagement: Israel Takes Its Revenge, and Syria and Iran Impose the Golan Equation By Elijah J. Magnier, May 12, 2018
Iran, Disinformation, and “Sanctions of Mass Destruction” By Kim Petersen, May 12, 2018
Israel Threatened All Lebanese When It Equated Their State with Hezbollah By Andrew Korybko, May 12, 2018
Iran – Trump’s Broken Deal – Maneuver to War? By Peter Koenig, May 12, 2018
Britain and the War on Syria: Ten Questions for the British Government By Adeyinka Makinde, May 11, 2018
The Sound and Fury and Silences of Donald Trump. “What is the Purpose of America’s Roughly 4,000 Existing Nuclear Weapons?” By Zia Mian, May 11, 2018
Russia’s Unspoken Relationship with Israel By Andrew Korybko, May 11, 2018
Rendition to Torture in Libya, Complicity of U.K. Government: Half a Million Pounds of Taxpayers’ Money Bails Out War Criminals Jack Straw and Sir Mark Allen By Craig Murray, May 11, 2018
Israeli Attack on “Iranian” Targets in Syria a Sign of Tel Aviv’s Frustration, Fear By Elliott Gabriel, May 11, 2018
In the Wake of Extensive Israeli Bombings of Syria: Netanyahu’s Security Cabinet Plots More Aggression By Stephen Lendman, May 11, 2018
The Coming US War Against Iran By John Kiriakou, May 11, 2018
Trump’s Pyrrhic Victory: The US Opts for a Path that Can Only Lead to War By Philip Giraldi, May 11, 2018
US Pullout from Iran Nuclear Deal; Part of a Larger Strategy: Richard Becker By Press TV, May 10, 2018
Why Cry? It’s Great News that Trump Pulled Out of the Iran Deal! By Andrew Korybko, May 10, 2018
War Criminals
Bolton’s Pathetic Case for Reneging on the Nuclear Deal By Daniel Larison, May 10, 2018
Trump Violates the Iran Nuclear Deal — Ignoring U.S. and Israeli Generals Who Support It By Mehdi Hasan, May 10, 2018
“War is Good for Business”: Defense Stocks Jump as Israel Puts Troops on “High Alert for an Attack” By silveristhenew, May 10, 2018
Iran
Black Alliance for Peace Says No to “War with Iran”! By Ajamu Baraka, May 10, 2018
Where Syria’s Government Sends “Conquered Terrorists” By Eric Zuesse, May 10, 2018
In Provoking Iran and Allies Alike to Please Netanyahu, Donald Trump has become the Most-Pro-Zionist American President Ever By Prof Rodrigue Tremblay, May 10, 2018
Military Incompetence? Failed Performance of April 14th US-UK-France Missile Attack against Syria By Brian Kalman, May 09, 2018
Trump Breaks Landmark Iran Nuclear Deal By Jamie Merrill, May 09, 2018
Trump Pulls US Out of “Unacceptable, Defective” Iran Deal; Obama Slams Decision as “So Misguided” By Zero Hedge, May 09, 2018
Trump’s Act of American Hubris. EU Opposition to Repeal of Iran Nuclear Agreement By Craig Murray, May 09, 2018
Trump’s Decision on Iran Deal Spells Disaster for the Middle East By Dr. Cesar Chelala, May 09, 2018
Israel Will Assassinate Syria’s Assad if He Allows Iran to Operate in Syria? Israeli Minister of Energy By The New Arab, May 09, 2018
Trump and Israeli Collusion By Margaret Kimberley, May 09, 2018
War Codes in Trump’s Iran Proclamation By Daniel McAdams, May 09, 2018
America Planned to Break “Iran Nuclear Deal” Years Before Signing It By Tony Cartalucci, May 09, 2018
Trump Withdraws from Iran Nuclear Deal By Stephen Lendman, May 09, 2018
U.S. Secret Military Operation in Yemen: A Perfect War Crime! By Massoud Nayeri, May 09, 2018
Trump and Netanyahu Collude to Damage NATO, Risk Middle East Instability and Nuclear War By Hans Stehling, May 09, 2018
America’s Word Is Worthless By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, May 09, 2018
The Irony of Election Fraud in Lebanon. Staggering Loss for Western Influence By Brett Redmayne-Titley, May 09, 2018
Withdrawal Symptoms: Trump and the Iran Nuclear Deal By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, May 09, 2018
Lebanon Elections: Hezbollah and Allies Gain a Parliamentary Majority By Stephen Lendman, May 08, 2018
Venezuela and Palestine Start Bi-National Bank with Petros By Telesur, May 08, 2018
Iran Under Renewed and Enormous Threats By Shane Quinn, May 08, 2018
Syrian women
Syrian Civilization Confronts Western Barbarism By Mark Taliano, May 08, 2018
Pompeo Rocks the Middle East: Lessons from a Former CIA Officer for the Secretary of State By Philip Giraldi, May 08, 2018
American Journalist Killed in Turkey for Revealing the Truth Regarding ISIS-Daesh By Eva Bartlett, May 08, 2018
Netanyahu’s “Nuclear Chutzpah” By Eric Margolis, May 07, 2018
Scheme to Let OPCW Name Perpetrators of Alleged Syria Chemical Attacks By Stephen Lendman, May 07, 2018
Planning for Aggression: Netanyahu’s Nuclear Archive By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, May 07, 2018
The Fate of the Iran Nuclear Agreement. Israel Has Begun the Countdown to May 15 By Norman Finkelstein, May 07, 2018
Will Turkey Leave NATO? “You Can’t Control Us” – Turkey Threatens to Retaliate if US Blocks Sale of 116 F-35s By Zero Hedge, May 07, 2018
Malaysia Elections: Saudi Royal Family Gave $681M to Prime Minister Najib Who Banned Shia Islam By Newsrescue, May 07, 2018
Trump Administration Hired Israeli Intelligence Firm to Discredit Obama Officials Who Negotiated the Iran Nuclear Deal: Report By Press TV, May 06, 2018
Only Russia Can De-Escalate the Proxy War Between the West and Iran in Syria By Andrew Korybko, May 06, 2018
Yemeni Rebels Begin Attacking Saudi Oil Infrastructure. Will the War in Yemen “Spiral Out of Control” By Darius Shahtahmasebi, May 06, 2018
The U.S. Is Playing with Fire if It Walks Away from the Iran Nuclear Deal on May 12 By Peter Van Buren, May 06, 2018
Putin Has Shown Weakness in Armenia and Syria – Is His Credibility Collapsing? By Srdja Trifkovic, May 06, 2018
Israel Bans Jordanian, Arab Publishers from Palestine Book Fair By The Palestinian Information Center, May 06, 2018
The War on Iran Has Begun. Russia Must End It By Dan Glazebrook, May 06, 2018
Global Geopolitical Rundown: Syria, Armenia, North Korea and Beyond. Mahdi Nazemroaya By Michael Welch and Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya, May 06, 2018
Israel’s Murderous Strikes on Syria, Via ‘Pacified’ Lebanon By Andre Vltchek, May 06, 2018
The “Arab NATO” to Make Syria’s “Internal Partition” a Reality By Andrew Korybko, May 06, 2018