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.
Neoliberal Water under the Bridge: How Politics and Business Unite in the U.S., Honduras and Israel By Charity Crouse, November 10, 2015
Duplicitous Love Hate Relationship: Obama and Netanyahu Plot Next Moves. Multibillion Dollar Military Aid Package By Stephen Lendman, November 10, 2015
Britain Preparing Potential Military Involvement in Syria as a Means to Regain Grip over Middle East? By Press TV, November 09, 2015
Gazing into the Abyss. Unending Illegal U.S. War-making Is Creating a “Domestic Monster” By Inder Comar, November 09, 2015
No Matter How Well Russian Media Expose Western Lies … By Eric Zuesse, November 09, 2015
Israel Has Murdered 80 Palestinians Since October 1 By Stephen Lendman, November 09, 2015
Early ‘US, UK Intel’ on Sinai Russian Plane Bombing Came From Israel By Jason Ditz, November 09, 2015
Russian and Iranian Military Operations in Support of Syrian Government Forces, Retreat of ISIS and Al-Nusra By South Front, November 09, 2015
Israel Held ‘Largest Ever’ Air Combat Drill Nearby, On Same Day as Russian Sinai Crash By 21st Century Wire, November 09, 2015
Hebron, Image by Wickey-nl (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Israel Terrorizes Hebron Residents. Settlers urge Soldiers to Kill the Palestinians. By Stephen Lendman, November 08, 2015
Doctors Without Borders Releases Horrific Details Of Kunduz Hospital Bombing By U.S. Forces By Kevin Gosztola, November 08, 2015
Binyamin Netanyahu: The 21st century Colonial Face of Ethnic-Cleansing, Goes to US Congress to Demand Yet More Bombs By Anthony Bellchambers, November 08, 2015
Flashback to 1995: The U.S.-Israel-Turkey-Jordan-Egypt Alliance at Prime Minister Rabin’s Funeral By Cem Ertür, November 07, 2015
Turkey Goes to War. Plan to Annex Sovereign Syrian Territory By Mike Whitney, November 07, 2015
Who Downed Russia’s Metrojet Flight 9268? By Justin Raimondo, November 07, 2015
Proxy War Between America and Russia: Pentagon Supplying ISIS Terrorists in Syria with Aircraft Downing Weapons By Stephen Lendman, November 07, 2015
The Iraq War, The Neocons and America’s Chalabi Legacy of Lies By Robert Parry, November 06, 2015
Saudi-UAE Military Coalition Expands into the Horn of Africa By South Front, November 06, 2015
Crimes against Humanity: Arrested Palestinian Children Imprisoned, Tortured By Stephen Lendman, November 06, 2015
The Blood on Obama’s Hands: Kunduz Hospital Attack Designed “to Kill and Destroy” By Bill Van Auken, November 06, 2015
Terrorist Retreat: Syrian Forces Break Through ISIS Frontline. U.S. Airdrops Weapons to Terrorists By South Front, November 06, 2015
The Downed Russian Plane in Sinai: Preliminary Thoughts By Joshua Tartakovsky, November 06, 2015
Fabricated BBC Video: ‘Reports on Aftermath of Syrian School Attack Were Largely Staged’ By Sputnik, November 06, 2015
Dear Fellow Americans: Do You Have Any Idea What’s Being Done In Your Name In Syria? By Washington's Blog, November 06, 2015
US in Syria: Stopping the “Arsonist-Firefighter”, “Openly Arming, Funding and Training Terrorists” By Tony Cartalucci, November 06, 2015
The 2013 East Ghouta Chemical Weapons Attack. Turkey’s Alleged Role in Supplying Toxic Sarin Gas to Syrian Terrorists By Bousla News, November 06, 2015
No Moderate Syrian Rebels Exist By Stephen Lendman, November 06, 2015
In the Shadow of the Downed Russian Passenger Plane: CIA to Provide “Select” Syrian Militants Weapons Capable of Downing Commercial Airliners By Zero Hedge, November 06, 2015
The “War On Terror” Is The Hoax Foundation Of “The Police Spy State” By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, November 06, 2015
In the Wake of Russia’s Metrojet 7K9268 Crash: Stoking Fear of Flying to Russia By Stephen Lendman, November 05, 2015
Israel Harvesting Slain Palestinians’ Organs: Palestine’s UN envoy By Press TV, November 05, 2015
Bomb Planted in Russian Airbus A321 in Egypt Airport. US Officials By Press TV, November 05, 2015
A “Jewish Homeland” is One Thing: “Genocide” Is Another By Anthony Bellchambers, November 05, 2015
What Is ISIS? By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya, November 04, 2015
The ‘Non-lethal’ Chemical Weapon Killing Palestinians By Sheren Khalel, November 04, 2015
Palestine: “New Methods of Resistance” If Israeli Brutal Force Continues By Stephen Lendman, November 04, 2015
25,000-30,000 Foreign Mercenaries in Syria, Fighting for the ISIS By RT, November 04, 2015
Are Russian Aircrafts Being Attacked? By Stephen Lendman, November 04, 2015
US Sponsored Smuggling of Weapons: Iraq Seizes Two Planes of the US-Led Coalition. They Were Carrying Weapons to the Iraqi Kurdistan Region By Fars News Agency, November 04, 2015
US and Israel Conducted “War Games” In the Vicinity of the Russian Plane Crash Location By Sean Adl-Tabatabai, November 04, 2015
Palestine is a War Zone. Israeli State Terror Rages By Stephen Lendman, November 03, 2015
Captured ISIS Leaders in Iraq Confess to Receiving Military and Intelligence Support from the United States By Fars News Agency, November 03, 2015
Syria: Significant Gains of Pro-government Forces, Al Nusra and ISIS Have United Their Military Efforts By South Front, November 03, 2015
Towards a Foreign Imposed “Political Transition” in Syria? The Broader War, US Threats directed against Russia By Peter Koenig, November 03, 2015
Russia, Ukraine, Syria and the Grand Chessboard By Michael Welch and Andrew Korybko, November 03, 2015
Boots on the Ground: What Are the Real Objectives of U.S. Special Forces in Syria? By Ekaterina Blinova, November 03, 2015
America’s Ground War “Against” or “In Support” of The Islamic State? ISIS Supplied Via Turkey, a US Excuse to Seize Syria By Tony Cartalucci, November 03, 2015
Nearly 100,000 Gazans Face Winter in Tents, Animal Shelters By Tasmin news, November 03, 2015
Israeli “Staatspolizei” Carry out Summary Executions in Jerusalem By Anthony Bellchambers, November 03, 2015
The Destruction of Syria. Will Military Action put America and Russia on the Dangerous Path of a Possible Confrontation? By Adeyinka Makinde, November 03, 2015
Syria at a Crossroads: Carrying on With the War? “The US and the Saudis are Still Working Together” By Nicolas J. S. Davies, November 02, 2015
Israel Murdering Defenceless Palestinian Youths and Children By Stephen Lendman, November 02, 2015
Israel’s Membership in “The Peaceful Uses of Outer Space Affairs” (UNOOSA): For the First Time since 1948, Egypt votes for Israel at UN By Middle East Monitor, November 02, 2015
“It Will Become a Prison”: Palestinians of Hebron Required to “Register” in Preparation for Severe New Restrictions By International Solidarity Movement, November 02, 2015
New Zealand’s Zionist Diplomacy in the UN Security Council: “Israel Has a Right to Defend Itself” By Dr. Vacy Vlazna, November 02, 2015
Israel’s Encirclement of Al-Aqsa ‘Nearly Complete’ By Jonathan Cook, November 02, 2015
Russia Mourning over Loss of All on Board Flight KGL9268: Black Boxes Recovered By Dr. Christof Lehmann, November 02, 2015
EU Member States Sell Weapons to Israel, Help Enforce Israel’s Illegal Settlement in Occupied Territories By Anthony Bellchambers, November 01, 2015
Russian Air Force Has Destroyed 1623 Terrorist Targets in Syria. Al Nusra and ISIS Join Forces By South Front, November 01, 2015
Russian Airliner Crash: The Islamic State (ISIS) “Claim of Responsibility” By Stephen Lendman, November 01, 2015
ISIS Oil Exports Worth $500 Million a Year ‘Conducted through Turkey’ By RT, November 01, 2015
Video: Israeli Military Threatens Palestinian Refugee Camp, ‘We Will Gas You until You Die’ By Annie Robbins, November 01, 2015
Flashback to 2001: Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad to British Prime Minister Tony Blair: ‘Stop Bombing Afghan Civilians’ By Cem Ertur, November 01, 2015
Israel Torture and Imprison Palestinian Children. “A Severe Threat to the National Security of Israel” By Stephen Lendman, November 01, 2015
Russia’s Military Intervention in Syria Has Changed the “Middle East Dynamic”. Agreement to Disagree in Vienna on Syria By Stephen Lendman, October 31, 2015
Syria’s White Helmets, NGO “Soft Power” and War Propaganda. The “Moderate Terrorists” Myth Exposed By Vanessa Beeley, October 31, 2015
Israel Tear Gases 8-Month-Old Palestinian Infant to Death By Stephen Lendman, October 31, 2015
Russian Passenger Aircraft with 220 Onboard Crashes over Egypt By RT, October 31, 2015
Syria Says There Is No Evidence Russia Hit Hospitals, US Is Lying By Sean Adl-Tabatabai, October 31, 2015
Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki leaves the International Criminal Court in The Hague on June 25, 2015. (AFP photo)
Palestine Submits New Files on Israeli War Crimes to ICC By Press TV, October 31, 2015
Russia’s Anti-Terrorist Campaign in Syria. Moscow’s Broader National Security Interests By William Hawes, October 31, 2015
Shouldn’t the U.S. Compensate Syria for Invading? By Eric Zuesse, October 31, 2015
Is Israel’s Occupation of the West Bank Behind The Current Violence? By Prof. Alon Ben-Meir, October 31, 2015
The Islamic State (ISIS) Counteroffensive and the Battle for East Aleppo By South Front, October 31, 2015
Genocide in Palestine: Israel Storms Hospital. In Bethlehem Soldier Yells: “We will Gas you all until You Die.” By Stephen Lendman, October 31, 2015
Islamic State (ISIS) and Al Nusrah Attack Syrian Government Supply Route, Was it Coordinated by the US? By Moon of Alabama, October 31, 2015
The Tony Blair War Crimes Saga in Limbo: Chilcot Iraq War Report “to Be Published June or July 2016”, Chilcot Tells Cameron By RT, October 30, 2015
Israeli Forces Invade Palestinian Hospitals By Stephen Lendman, October 29, 2015
Russia summons US, Saudi and NATO Envoys to Explain Accusations of Russian Airstrikes against Civilians in Syria By Sputnik, October 29, 2015
US Impotence and Russia’s Intervention in Syria: A Watershed Return to International Diplomacy? By The Saker, October 29, 2015