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.
U.S. Walks Back Claim that Syrian Government Carried Out Chemical Weapons Attack By Washington's Blog, April 13, 2018
Lavrov, Erdogan, and Afrin: Masterful Perception Management in Action By Andrew Korybko, April 12, 2018
Iraqis’ Diet Fifteen Years After the Invasion. Travelling Through Baghdad By Barbara Nimri Aziz, April 12, 2018
Washington’s False Flag: United Nations Confirmed that US Supported Syrian “Rebels” Were Using Chemical Weapons By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, April 12, 2018
US Attack on Syria Is Futile but Serves a Purpose By M. K. Bhadrakumar, April 12, 2018
Poison Gas – Weapon of Choice for “False News” By Peter Koenig, April 12, 2018
Syrian Army Captures British Military Men in Eastern Ghouta. Failed US-Israeli Plot to Launch Ground Assault on Damascus By Fars News Agency, April 12, 2018
False Flag in Syria Sets Stage for Wider War By Tony Cartalucci, April 12, 2018
An Appeal to James Mattis on the Supposed Chlorine Attack in Syria By Colonel W. Patrick Lang, April 12, 2018
The Red Cross Recognizes Israel’s “Legitimate Security Concerns” to Keep the Gaza Concentration Camp Sealed By Norman Finkelstein, April 12, 2018
Trigger-Happy Trump and Syria: “The Worst Case Scenario Is Now Our Reality.” By Felicity Arbuthnot, April 12, 2018
The Most Important U.N. Security Council Vote Ever? Alleged Syria Chemical Weapons Attack and US-NATO Plans to Invade Syria By Eric Zuesse, April 12, 2018
International Law Experts Say Military Attack on Syria Would be Illegal By Prof. Marjorie Cohn, Ramsey Clark, Inder Comar, and Jeanne Mirer, April 12, 2018
Lights, Action and War Propaganda: Al-Jazeera Releases White Helmets Video on Alleged Chemical Attack in Douma After Trump Says “It’s Time” for U.S. Forces to Leave Syria By Timothy Alexander Guzman, April 12, 2018
Syria Chemical Weapons False Flag: Repeating Baseless Claims Is Not “Mounting Evidence” By Tony Cartalucci, April 12, 2018
Trump’s Rush to Judgment on Syria Chemical Attack By Scott Ritter, April 12, 2018
“There Wasn’t a Single Corpse”: Russia Claims ‘White Helmets’ Staged Syria Chemical Attack By Zero Hedge, April 12, 2018
Video: Experts Skeptical of Claim that Syria Carried Out Chemical Weapons Attack By Washington's Blog, April 12, 2018
Social Media War Hype: Apocalypse Now or Apocalypse Never? By Andrew Korybko, April 12, 2018
Dangerous Crossroads: Russian Naval Exercises Off the Syrian Coast. U.S. Military Deployment in the East Mediterranean By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, April 11, 2018
The World War III Media Hype is Misplaced: The US-Russian Arms Competition Might Stabilize Their Standoff in Syria By Andrew Korybko, April 11, 2018
On the Brink of a Full Blown War? Reports of Nuclear Submarines on the Way to Syria By True Publica, April 11, 2018
Syria’s Chemical Weapons – Lawbreakers Rule Supreme By Felicity Arbuthnot, April 11, 2018
The Syria Chemical Weapons Saga: The Staging of a US-NATO Sponsored Humanitarian Disaster By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, April 11, 2018
The Canadian Government’s Silence on the Israeli Massacre in Gaza By Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East, April 11, 2018
Sleepers Awake, We Are Heading toward Imminent Disaster By Edward Curtin, April 11, 2018
For London, Propaganda Is an Art. Attributing Imaginary Crimes to Their Enemies By Thierry Meyssan, April 10, 2018
The Suspicious Timing of the Latest Provocations in Syria. The U.S. is Planning a Major Strike? Will it Be Carried Out? By Andrew Korybko, April 10, 2018
Winds of War Heading Toward Syria. Preplanned US Aggression, Confronting Russia By Stephen Lendman, April 10, 2018
Only 100 Douma Captives Held by Syria “Opposition” Terror Group Released. Thousands Executed By Zen Adra, April 10, 2018
White Supremacy Colonialism
Escalation: Is the Conflict in Syria Evolving Towards a Global War? By South Front, April 10, 2018
Syrian Doctors Say They Have Treated No One From Duma with Chemical Poisoning By Paul Antonopoulos, April 10, 2018
Intra-NATO Conflicts, US-France Confront Turkey: Macron Might Trap France in A Quagmire in Northern Syria By Andrew Korybko, April 10, 2018
Fake Intelligence: No Trace of Chemical Weapons at Alleged Attack Site in Douma – Russian Military By RT News, April 10, 2018
Ahed Tamini, Imprisoned for Having Slapped an Israeli Soldier. Calls for Human Solidarity In Support of Palestinian Children By Prof Susan Babbitt, April 10, 2018
“Just Shut Up and Die or Disappear”: Reaction of Israelis to the Gaza Massacres By Rima Najjar, April 10, 2018
Moscow Calls ‘Chemical Attack’ in Douma ‘Fake News,’ Warns Against Syrian Intervention By RT News, April 10, 2018
On the Threshold of War. “Entirety of Russian Military on High Alert”. Unconfirmed Reports By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, April 10, 2018
Truth, Peace, Justice and the War on Syria: Lies, Fake Humanitarians, Fake Covers for War Crimes By Mark Taliano, April 10, 2018
Taking the World to the Brink of Annihilation By Rick Sterling, April 10, 2018
Trump: Is He Stupid or Dangerously Crazy? By Justin Raimondo, April 10, 2018
Emotional Propaganda 101: Chemical Attack in Syria Appears to be a False Flag to Justify Regime Change By Steven MacMillan, April 09, 2018
US or Israel Terror-Bombing of Syrian Airbase Follows False Flag Chemical Weapons Incident By Stephen Lendman, April 09, 2018
Dangerous Crossroads: Possibility Now for Nuclear War, Russia vs. U.S.? Credible Evidence. U.S Missile Attack against Syria Contemplated By Eric Zuesse, April 09, 2018
America and Britain Provide the Fuel that Keeps the Engine of the Israeli Occupation Running By Hans Stehling, April 09, 2018
Breaking: Russian Forces in Syria Are on Combat Alert: U.S. Considers Attacks Directed against Syrian Government Forces By South Front, April 09, 2018
CIA Stages Syria Poison Gas Attack, Pretext for Escalation of US-led War. Preparations for Stepped-up Military Operations? By Patrick Martin, April 09, 2018
Trump Threatens Putin and “Animal Assad” Over Syrian “Chemical Attack”; Russia Warns of “Grave” Response If US Launches Strike By Zero Hedge, April 09, 2018
Turkey Publishes the Whereabouts of Five Secret Military Bases in Syria that Belong to France By Voltaire Network, April 09, 2018
Iraq, Massacre of a Country: “A War on Terror” when you are the Terrorist By Felicity Arbuthnot, April 09, 2018
15 Years Since the Fall of Baghdad: A Broken Statue in a War Built on Lies By Patrik Paulov, April 09, 2018
Strikes on Syria: Failed US WMD Lies and the “Israel Approach” By Tony Cartalucci, April 09, 2018
UN Syrian Chemical Weapons Report Exposes Washington’s Lies By Patrick O'Connor, April 09, 2018
Israel’s Secret Nuclear Biological and Chemical Weapons (NBC) By Manlio Dinucci, April 09, 2018
Yes, the US-Supported Syrian “Rebels” DO Have Access to Chemical Weapons By Washington's Blog, April 09, 2018
Trump Said “Very Soon”… But U.S. Isn’t Leaving Syria… By Gregory Shupak, April 08, 2018
Another Chemical Attack in Syria: But Why Is the Corporate Media Missing Crucial Points? By Paul Antonopoulos, April 08, 2018
Defending Palestinian Rights: The Gaza Slaughter of Palestinians Supported by the U.S. Congress and Major Jewish American Organizations By Prof. James Petras, April 08, 2018
International Criminal Court
America Threatened OPCW Director General – “We Know Where Your Kids Are” By True Publica, April 08, 2018
Israelis Gather by Gaza Border to Watch and Cheer as Military Uses Live Fire Against Palestinians By Daily Sabah, April 08, 2018
Trump’s Syria “Withdrawal” Was Textbook US Deception By Tony Cartalucci, April 08, 2018
The US-led Invasions and Occupation of Afghanistan and Iraq. A Comparative Analysis By Sami Karimi, April 07, 2018
In Wake of Gaza Massacre, Israeli Leaders Should be Prosecuted for War Crimes By Prof. Marjorie Cohn, April 07, 2018
Israeli High Crimes Without Punishment. “Bloody Friday” Followed Week Ago Massacre: 9 more Gazans killed, over 1,000 Injured By Stephen Lendman, April 07, 2018
U.S. Destabilization Plans? Why Is EuroMaidan’s Mastermind Geoffrey Pyatt Warning About Greek-Turkish Tensions? By Andrew Korybko, April 07, 2018
After Deadliest Day in Gaza Since 2014: “Accountability” for the Killing of Protesters By Medical Aid for Palestinians, April 07, 2018
The War on Syria: The Need to Amplify Voices of Truth, Peace and Justice By Mark Taliano, April 07, 2018
What Did Israel Bomb in the Syrian Desert in 2007? By Ted Snider, April 06, 2018
Israel’s “Security”: The Official Mantra to Defend Israel’s Crimes against Palestinians By Rima Najjar, April 06, 2018
A Microscope’s Journey Through Israel By Dana Visalli, April 06, 2018
The Good Friday Massacre: World…We Are All Palestinians, Now! By Brett Redmayne-Titley, April 06, 2018
Washington and Riyadh’s Terror Enterprise. Wahhabi-indoctrinated Mercenaries By Tony Cartalucci, April 06, 2018
“First Responder” White Helmets Reemerge as Experts in Defusing Explosives in Syria’s Afrin By Whitney Webb, April 06, 2018
What Can the World Do to Curtail the Rising Tide of Antisemitism By Hans Stehling, April 06, 2018
The Lebanon-Israel Border: Reasons for Peace… Excuses for War! By Brett Redmayne-Titley, April 06, 2018
Another Gaza Bloodbath Ahead on Friday? By Stephen Lendman, April 06, 2018
What’s Wrong with Trump’s New National Security Advisor, John Bolton? By Philip Giraldi, April 06, 2018
The Close-Knit Relationship between Britain and Saudi Arabia. Crown Prince Bin Salman’s Visit to London By Marcus Papadopoulos and Yemenpress, April 05, 2018
Israel
Israel Vows No Change in Free-Fire Policy against Palestinians By Stephen Lendman, April 05, 2018
Oil Firms’ Multimillion-dollar Bribery Racket Bringing Death to the Streets of Iraq’s Basra By Suadad al-Salhy, April 05, 2018