Middle East & North Africa

Syria “Liberated” by its own Destroyers By Manlio Dinucci, December 14, 2024

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 …

When Terrorism becomes Counter-terrorism: The State Sponsors of Terrorism are “Going After the Terrorists” By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, May 15, 2022
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.
Ten Years Ago: “Operation Libya” and the Battle for Oil: Redrawing the Map of Africa By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, February 20, 2021
Libya is among the World's largest oil economies with approximately 3.5% of global oil reserves, more than twice those of the US.
America, An Empire on its Last Leg: To be Kicked Out from the Middle East? By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, January 07, 2020
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.
US Applies Useful Double Standard to Alleged Use of Chemical Weapons in Syria By Whitney Webb, February 22, 2018
Gaza: A Concentration Camp of 1.5 Million People By Jean Shaoul, February 22, 2018
Gaza: Who or What Has a “Right to Exist”? By Judith Deutsch, February 22, 2018
Mainstream War Propaganda. Embedded with the Terrorists By Mark Taliano, February 22, 2018
War on Lebanon? The Geopolitical Battlefield. Mounting Tensions with Israel By Andre Vltchek, February 22, 2018
Gaza Does Not Have a Humanitarian Crisis. It Has a Colonial Problem By Gregory Shupak, February 21, 2018
Syria’s Afrin Move: “Artful Assistance to Allies” or “Armageddon in the Making”? By Andrew Korybko, February 21, 2018
The Palestinian People Are Not Fooled Anymore By Rima Najjar, February 21, 2018
Washington Delivers New Ultimatum on Iran By Bill Van Auken, February 21, 2018
Video: Turkey Threatens to Strike Syrian Army By South Front, February 21, 2018
Dancing to US Tune: NATO Creates Military Schengen and Launches Iraq Mission By Alex Gorka, February 21, 2018
Why an Iraq War Inquiry Is More Necessary Than Ever By James ONeill, February 21, 2018
ISIS Beheadings of Journalists: CIA Admitted to Staging Fake Jihadist Videos in 2010 By Mikael Thalen, February 19, 2018
Hillary Clinton: “If I’m President, We Will Attack Iran… We Would be Able to Totally Obliterate Them.” By Stephen Lendman, February 19, 2018
Women’s Rights in Syria By Mark Taliano, February 19, 2018
West Asia in Flux, Resistance and Liberation: Palestine, Syria, Iran By Dr. Chandra Muzaffar, February 19, 2018
Trump Creates, Then Exacerbates, Crisis for Palestinian Refugees By Prof. Marjorie Cohn, February 19, 2018
There Is No Justice in Our World By Eric Margolis, February 18, 2018
How Damaged Is Chancellor Angela Merkel by the Supply of German Submarines to Israel? By Hans Stehling, February 18, 2018
Falsehoods and Lies: Inciting War Is a War Crime By Strategic Culture Foundation, February 18, 2018
Hizbullah Today, In the Wake of the 2006 War on Lebanon By Brett Redmayne-Titley, February 18, 2018
America-Turkey Love-Hate Relationship, Tillerson in Ankara By Stephen Lendman, February 17, 2018
Iraq’s ‘Liberation Day’ By Nat Parry, February 17, 2018
Lebanon: The Role of Hizbullah By Brett Redmayne-Titley, February 17, 2018
Video: Israel Claims Half of Syrian Air Defenses Is Destroyed By South Front, February 16, 2018
Washington Calls Upon Gulf State Sponsors of ISIS-Daesh to “Rebuild” Iraq By Tony Cartalucci, February 16, 2018
New War in the Middle East? Washington Is Dancing to the Tune Being Played by Israel By Philip Giraldi, February 16, 2018
Israel, a Leading Tax Haven By Stephen Lendman, February 16, 2018
Tip-off Received on Al-Nusra, White Helmets Plotting Chemical Weapons Provocation in Syria – Moscow By RT News, February 14, 2018
Islamophobia and the “Negative Media Portrayal of Muslims” By Dr. Belinda F. Espiritu, February 14, 2018
Netanyahu’s “Operation Greater Israel”? Israel’s Intent to Wage War on Lebanon. By Hans Stehling, February 13, 2018
Timeline: Israel’s Anti-Palestinian Laws Since 1948 By Middle East Monitor, February 13, 2018
BDS Movement Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize By Bjørnar Moxnes, February 13, 2018
Dangerous Delusions: Syria Isn’t Going to Liberate Palestine Anytime Soon nor Is Russia Turning Against “Israel” By Andrew Korybko, February 13, 2018
The Coming War on Lebanon: Israel, Saudi Arabia, U.S. Prepare “Long-Planned Middle East War” By Timothy Alexander Guzman, February 13, 2018
Video: Integrity in Journalism, The Legacy of Robert Parry, “You Tell the Truth, No Matter What” By Michael Welch, Robert Parry, Nat Parry, Ray McGovern, and John Pilger, February 12, 2018
Another Unnecessary War: Israel is Planning to Launch a Military Operation against Lebanon By Prof. Idan Landau, February 12, 2018
Turkey-led Forces Suffer Hundreds Dead Since Start of Afrin Operation against Kurdish Forces in Northern Syria By Andrew Illingworth, February 12, 2018
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Facebook Says It Is Deleting Accounts at the Direction of the U.S. and Israeli Governments By Glenn Greenwald, February 12, 2018
US Terror Bombing: The City of Raqqa Transformed into Rubble, Phoney Pretext of Combating ISIS By Stephen Lendman, February 12, 2018
An Exodus of “Jewish Settlers” from Palestine Is Inevitable By Rima Najjar, February 12, 2018
Russia in the Crosshairs By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, February 12, 2018
This Conservative Government Is Comparable to That of Anthony Eden in Its Machinations with Israel By Hans Stehling, February 12, 2018
Israel Claims Airstrikes on Damascus
US Declares Full Support to Israeli Airstrikes on Syria. Hezbollah Backs Damascus By South Front, February 12, 2018
Syria: Voices of Truth, Peace, and Justice By Mark Taliano, February 11, 2018
In Libya, ISIS Is Using Human Trafficking to Finance Its Activities By Al Shahid, February 11, 2018
Downed Russian Warplane Illustrates Enduring Danger of US-Backed Terrorism By Tony Cartalucci, February 11, 2018
Israel Escalates Aggression on Syria By Stephen Lendman, February 11, 2018
Israel Attacks Air Defences, Iranian Targets in Syria After Its F-16 Is Downed By Middle East Eye, February 11, 2018
The Demolition of U.S. Global Power. The Accelerated Collapse of American Global Hegemony By Prof Alfred McCoy, February 11, 2018
Syrian National Dialogue Congress Is A Decisive Step Towards Peace By Firas Samuri, February 10, 2018
What U.S. News Reports Hide on Syria’s War By Eric Zuesse, February 10, 2018
Russians Reported Killed in US Strikes in Syria By Bill Van Auken, February 10, 2018
The Balfour Declaration – Empire, the Mandate and Resistance in Palestine By Jim Miles, February 10, 2018
US Evacuates ISIS Militants from Syria and Iraq to Afghanistan By Sophie Mangal, February 10, 2018
Total Collapse of Gaza Healthcare ‘Imminent,’ Warns Medical Charity By The New Arab, February 09, 2018
Russia Blasts US Attack on Syrian and Allied Forces By Stephen Lendman, February 09, 2018
Logistics 101: Where Does ISIS Get Its Guns? By Tony Cartalucci, February 08, 2018
US Coalition Kills 100 Pro-Assad Troops After ‘Unprovoked’ Attack on Kurd Allies By Middle East Eye, February 08, 2018
Violence Leaves 750,000 Children in Mosul Struggling to Access Basic Health Services By ReliefWeb, February 08, 2018
US and Israel Escalate War on Syria By Stephen Lendman, February 08, 2018
Phony US Accusations of Syrian Chemical Weapons Attacks By Stephen Lendman, February 08, 2018
Israel Is Militarily, Geostrategically and Culturally Tied to the US By Shane Quinn, February 07, 2018
Voices from Syria: Exposing the Barbarity of Washington’s Regime Change Aspirations By Mark Taliano, February 06, 2018
Hadi’s Fall, Rise of South Yemen, End of the War? By Andrew Korybko, February 06, 2018
Palestine and the Issue of “Jewish Identity” By Rima Najjar, February 06, 2018
A 14-year-old Girl Forced Alone and at Night into the Gaza Cage. Another Routine Mishap for Israel’s Occupation By Jonathan Cook, February 05, 2018
Downing of Russian Fighter in Syria Threatens Wider War By Peter Symonds, February 05, 2018
US Foreign Policies Remain Unchanged Since 1948 By Eric Zuesse, February 05, 2018
US-Supplied MANPADS Downed Russian Aircraft in Syria. Danger of a US-Russia Military Clash? By Stephen Lendman, February 05, 2018
BDS Movement in Support of Palestine Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize By Stephen Lendman, February 05, 2018
Poland Defends Its National Dignity in the Face of Israeli & Ukrainian Intimidation By Andrew Korybko, February 04, 2018
Turkey Establishing Long-Sought US “Safe Haven” in Northern Syria By Tony Cartalucci, February 04, 2018
US-Armed Jihadist in Syria Shoots Down Russian Plane, Kills Pilot By Eric Zuesse, February 04, 2018
Video: Militants’ Defense Collapsed in Eastern Idlib By South Front, February 04, 2018
Mattis Threatens Military Action Over Syria Gas Attack Claims, Then Admits “No Evidence” By Zero Hedge, February 04, 2018
When Is There Going to be Accountability for US Wars and Aggression? By Rick Sterling, February 03, 2018
How Much Has the American Government Paid for Its Invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan? By Eric Zuesse, February 03, 2018
Is It Even Possible to “Betray” the Kurds? By Andrew Korybko, February 02, 2018
Development Under the Threat of War in the Arab World By Dr. Ali Kadri, February 02, 2018