Middle East & North Africa

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.
Iraq is in the eye of the storm. Washington's "maximum pressure" campaign on Iran and Tehran's response put heavy pressure on the Iraqi government, a partner for both. The US expects Baghdad to resist Iran, and Iran expects Baghdad to resist the US. An almost impossible position.
Emergency U.N. Security Council Session on Bloodbath in Gaza By Stephen Lendman, March 31, 2018
For the World Community, Palestinian Lives Don’t Matter By Stephen Lendman, March 31, 2018
State Sponsorship of Terrorism? US Judge Allows 9/11 Lawsuits against Saudi Arabia to Proceed By Middle East Eye, March 30, 2018
Israel Puts 100 Snipers on Gaza Border to Face “Right of Return” Protests By Middle East Eye, March 30, 2018
The Washington Based “Arabia Foundation”: U.S. Media Boosts Obvious Saudi Front Group as Neutral “Think Tank” By Adam Johnson, March 29, 2018
Donald Trump’s Appointment of John Bolton Means “Regime Change is Coming to Iran”? By Derrick Broze, March 29, 2018
US-EU Economic Sanctions Inflict Suffering on War Battered Syrian Children By Sarah Abed, March 29, 2018
Teachers’ Rebellion Spreads on Four Continents By Eric London, March 28, 2018
Bolton’s Past Advocacy for Israel at US Expense Heralds Dangerous New Era in Geopolitics By Whitney Webb, March 28, 2018
The Liberation of Eastern Ghouta. Statement of Syria Solidarity Movement By Syria Solidarity Movement, March 28, 2018
Largest Military Aid in Israel’s History: $705 Million for Missile “Defence” Programmes By Middle East Monitor, March 28, 2018
40 Tons of Chemical Weapons Found in Areas Liberated from Militants in Syria By South Front, March 28, 2018
Caught on Camera: Israel Targets Civilians with a Chemical Weapon Drone By Zero Hedge, March 28, 2018
What Does Pompeo’s Rise Mean for the Middle East? By Salman Rafi Sheikh, March 28, 2018
Syrian women
Syrians Defy Fabricated War Propaganda Narratives By Mark Taliano, March 28, 2018
What Russia Needs to Learn From Gaddafi’s Mistakes By Lyuba Lulko, March 27, 2018
Trump and Tehran: This Is Not 2003 and Iran Is Not Iraq By Prof. Seyed Mohammad Marandi, March 27, 2018
Video: Syrian Army Is About to Get Full Control Over Eastern Ghouta By South Front, March 27, 2018
What Has Become of the “400 000 Moderate Rebels in the Ghouta”? By Voltaire Network, March 27, 2018
Israeli Ex-defense Minister Says Trump’s New NSC Adviser Bolton Was Pushing Him to Strike Iran By RT News, March 27, 2018
Antisemitism: The Questions that Require Urgent Answers By Hans Stehling, March 27, 2018
Why 55 U.S. Senators Voted for Genocide in Yemen By David Swanson, March 27, 2018
Renaming the 1948 War against Palestine: Partition, Dispossession, and Fragmentation By Prof. Richard Falk, March 26, 2018
Three Years of Saudi Bombings: Let’s Call An End to War Profiteering in Yemen By Catherine Shakdam, March 26, 2018
UK Complicit in the Destruction of Yemen. £4.6 billion of UK Weapons to Saudi Arabia Since Beginning of Bombing Campaign By Andrew Smith, March 26, 2018
Video: Thousands of US-Supported “Rebels” and Family Members Leave Eastern Ghouta By South Front, March 26, 2018
6,700 More U.S. Missiles for Saudi Arabia to Shoot at Yemeni Kids By Colonel Ann Wright, March 26, 2018
Israel Sentences Palestinian Teenager Ahed Tamimi to Eight Months in Prison, For “Assaulting” Heavily Armed Israeli Soldiers By Tamara Nassar, March 26, 2018
Trump’s New War Cabinet By Shahed Ghoreishi, March 26, 2018
The Dirty War on Syria: Professor Anderson Reveals the “Unspoken Truth” By Prof. Tim Anderson, March 26, 2018
International Criminal Court
The Iran Based Mujahideen-e Khalq (MEK) Terrorist Organization: Why Bolton’s MEK Connection Matters By Daniel Larison, March 25, 2018
Competition in the Weapons Industry. Russia’s S-400s Sold to America’s Allies By Andrew Korybko, March 25, 2018
Video: Turkey’s Victories and Diplomacy. What to Expect Next By South Front, March 25, 2018
Reflections on 9/11, Imperialism and U.S War Crimes: Folks Out There Have a “Distaste of Western Civilization and Cultural Values” By Edward S. Herman, March 25, 2018
End of the Independent Palestinian State Project By Hossam Shaker, March 25, 2018
Ascendancy of The Lie. US-NATO War on Syria Presented as a “Humanitarian Undertaking” By Mark Taliano, March 25, 2018
Towards the Liberation Eastern Ghouta, Opening of the “Humanitarian Corridors”, Withdrawal of Terrorists By Inside Syria Media Center, March 25, 2018
Iraq, The Path of Martyrs. En Route from Baghdad to Kerbala By Barbara Nimri Aziz, March 25, 2018
Breaking: The Russian Military Warns: A Major U.S. Led War in Syria Is Imminent By Arkady Savitsky, March 24, 2018
Israel Praised John Bolton’s Appointment By Stephen Lendman, March 24, 2018
Trump Cuts Off U.S. Humanitarian Aid to Palestine By Press TV, March 24, 2018
The Untold Story of John Bolton’s Campaign for War with Iran By Gareth Porter, March 24, 2018
Palestine Sovereignty and the “Peace Process”. What is the End Game? “A Nation is not Defeated Until its Will to Resist is Completely Snuffed” By Rima Najjar, March 23, 2018
Iraq’s US-led “Illegal” Invasion Brought Nothing But Disaster By Tallha Abdulrazaq, March 23, 2018
Death and Destruction: Fifteen Years in Iraq By Black Alliance for Peace, March 23, 2018
The United Nations and Its Conduct During the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq By Denis Halliday, March 23, 2018
Death and Impunity: Iraq Fifteen Years After By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, March 23, 2018
The Political Vulnerability and Impunity of the Israel Lobby. The Intellectual Advocates of “Greater Israel” By Diana Johnstone, March 22, 2018
Under a False Flag, UK Attempts Three Chemical Attacks in the Ghouta By Voltaire Network, March 22, 2018
Setting the Record Straight on Israel’s 2007 Bombing of an Alleged Syrian Nuclear Reactor By Stephen Lendman, March 22, 2018
Gaddafi’s Son, Saif al Islam Welcomes Sarkozy Arrest, Offers Evidence By Daniel Mumbere, March 22, 2018
Calm Down, Turkey Is Not Going to Invade the Balkans By Andrew Korybko, March 22, 2018
A World War Has Begun. Break the Silence By John Pilger, March 22, 2018
The Arab Spring: Made in the USA By Stuart Jeanne Bramhall, March 22, 2018
Hillary Clinton Approved Delivering Libya’s Sarin Gas to Syrian Rebels: Seymour Hersh By Eric Zuesse, March 22, 2018
For These Children of Iraq, Help Did Not Arrive By Claudia Lefko, March 22, 2018
Why Are Syrian Refugees Returning to Their Homes? By Inside Syria Media Center, March 21, 2018
Syrians Have Names and Faces By Mark Taliano, March 21, 2018
The Cambridge Analytica Scandal Could Provide Hard Evidence of “Israeli” Meddling in Trump Election By Adam Garrie, March 21, 2018
Senate Rejects Ending US Support for Saudi Aggression in Yemen By Stephen Lendman, March 21, 2018
Mohammad bin Salman
Video: ‘That’s Peanuts For You’: Trump Showcases Weapons US Sold to Yemen-bombing Saudi Prince By RT News, March 21, 2018
Another Reason Why Imperialism Wanted Libya Overthrown By Abayomi Azikiwe, March 21, 2018
Syrian Refugees Are Going Home, the West Ready to Attack By Andre Vltchek, March 21, 2018
44 Senators Made History by Voting to End Illegal US War in Yemen By Kate Gould, March 21, 2018
Three Attempts by Terrorists to Use Chemical Weapons in Syria Prevented. Russian Defense Minister By South Front, March 21, 2018
State Power Routinely Shielded From Public Eyes By Shane Quinn, March 21, 2018
The Mysterious Frank Taylor Report: The 9/11 Document that Launched US-NATO’s “War on Terrorism” in the Middle East By Prof. Niels Harrit, March 21, 2018
The Red Sea 2015 “Secret Yacht Summit” that Realigned the Middle East By David Hearst, March 20, 2018
US Planning a Terrorist False Flag Chemical Attack to Justify Bombing Syria: Russia Says It Will Respond By Federico Pieraccini, March 20, 2018
Iraq +15: Accumulated Evil of the Whole By Nat Parry, March 20, 2018
The Hijacking of Traditional Judaism by the Political Ambitions of Revisionist Zionism By Hans Stehling, March 20, 2018
Video: US Establishing Military Facility in Oil-Rich Area in Deir Ezzor Province – Reports By South Front, March 20, 2018
Colin Powell Acknowledges Israeli Nuclear Arsenal: 200 Israeli Nukes Targeted against Iran… By Eli Clifton, March 20, 2018
The War on Syria. Obama Lied When He Said This By Eric Zuesse, March 20, 2018
The Iraq War, 20 Years Ago: Thinking the Unthinkable: “Was Margaret Hassan Sacrificed” by Tony Blair’s Government? By Felicity Arbuthnot, March 19, 2018
How the US and the UN Sandbagged Yemen Peace Talks By Randi Nord, March 19, 2018
In 1974 CIA Claimed Israeli Nuclear Missiles Could Hit Neighbors By Grant Smith, March 19, 2018
US Smooths Israel’s Path to Annexing West Bank By Jonathan Cook, March 19, 2018
Russia Says U.S. Trains Jihadists to Undertake Chemical Attacks Blamed Against Assad By Eric Zuesse, March 19, 2018
Breaking: Eastern Ghouta’s Jihadists Are Ready to Cooperate By Inside Syria Media Center, March 18, 2018