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.
Global Peace and Security: Waging “War on Terrorism” in the Middle East Even as We “Embody Terrorism” By Mahboob A. Khawaja, October 20, 2015
Jerusalem Chaos Is a Warning of Things to Come By Jonathan Cook, October 20, 2015
‘Caught on Camera’: Extrajudicial Killings of Palestinians By Annie Robbins, October 20, 2015
Tony Blair’s “Deal In Blood” with George W. Bush To Attack Iraq One Year Before the March 2003 Invasion. By Felicity Arbuthnot, October 19, 2015
US Military Chief Pledges Increased Support as Israel Steps Up Attacks on Palestinians By Jean Shaoul, October 19, 2015
Syrian Quagmire Baffles Democrats. “No New Ideas for Peace other than More War” By William Boardman, October 19, 2015
Canadian Students Reject Liberal Party Leader Justin Trudeau’s Attack on Palestine Activism, Free Speech By Ali Abunimah, October 19, 2015
Rampaging State-Sponsored Israeli Settlers. Daily Acts of Violence against Palestinians By Stephen Lendman, October 19, 2015
Libya: From Africa’s Wealthiest Democracy under Gaddafi, to US-NATO Sponsored Terrorist Haven By Garikai Chengu, October 19, 2015
Farcical Egyptian Parliamentary Elections Underway By Stephen Lendman, October 19, 2015
Media Disinformation: The Imaginary Cuban Troops in Syria By Matt Peppe, October 19, 2015
UN Peacekeepers to Protect World Heritage Sites in Syria and Iraq from ISIS Attacks By RT, October 19, 2015
Another “Conspiracy Theory” Becomes Fact: The Great Oil Market Collapse Is All About Crushing Russian Control Over Syria By Zero Hedge, October 18, 2015
America’s War against the “Islamic State” (ISIS) is Over: US-led Warplanes Attack Power Plant in Aleppo By Hazem Sabbagh, October 18, 2015
Fabricated Media Reports About Russia’s Syria Air Campaign against ISIS By Stephen Lendman, October 18, 2015
Israeli Arbitrary Killings and Brutalities Caught On Camera. Euro-Med Monitor Report By Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor, October 18, 2015
Israel’s “Blood Diamonds”: When a Diamond is Forever . . . on Your Conscience By Sean Clinton, October 18, 2015
Videos Challenge Israeli Police Account of Shootings Directed against Palestinians By Jonathan Cook, October 18, 2015
The Saudi Dynasty, Key U.S. Ally, Tops the World in Barbarism By Eric Zuesse, October 18, 2015
€3bn, Visa Deal and EU Access Talks if Turkey Stops Refugee Flow to Europe By RT, October 17, 2015
Israel, the Media, and the Anatomy of a Sick Society By Eric Draitser, October 17, 2015
US Rejects Afghan Hospital Bombing Investigation, Instead Smashes into Hospital Destroying Evidence By Robert Barsocchini, October 17, 2015
NATO’s “Humanitarian Intervention” in Libya: A Premeditated Geostrategic Operation By Steven MacMillan, October 17, 2015
Hate-Mongering Israeli Rabbis Call Killing Palestinians “a Religious Duty” By Stephen Lendman, October 17, 2015
US End Game in Syria is Just the Beginning for A Wider Regional War? By Tony Cartalucci, October 17, 2015
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US-led Bombing Raids Target Syrian Civilians in an Area which has “Never been in the Hands of ISIS” By ITAR-TASS, October 17, 2015
ISIS Fighters Could Gain “Legal” Entry into EU, Thanks to Europe’s New Schengen Visa Deal for Turkey By 21st Century Wire, October 17, 2015
Israel’s Friday Bloodbath. Washington absolves Israel of Blame By Stephen Lendman, October 17, 2015
Coverup of the 2012 “Benghazi Incident”: The Disaster may have involved Competing Factions within the US Intelligence Community” By Adeyinka Makinde, October 16, 2015
Australia Says US-Led Coalition Needs No Russian Help in Fighting ISIL By Sputnik, October 16, 2015
America’s War on Syria: Russia’s Fantasy “Stray Missiles” versus America’s Real Ones. By Felicity Arbuthnot, October 16, 2015
Calls for Netanyahu to Resign: an Anachronist who Obstructs Peace By Anthony Bellchambers, October 16, 2015
Solidarity with the Palestinian Popular Resistance! Boycott Israel now! By Socialist Project, October 16, 2015
Obama Extends Unending US War in Afghanistan By Bill Van Auken, October 16, 2015
European Council Backs US Imperial Policy on Syria By Stephen Lendman, October 16, 2015
Did Russia’s Intervention Derail Turkey’s Plan to Invade Syria? By Mike Whitney, October 16, 2015
Iran Special Forces Fighting ISIS Terrorists in Syria By South Front, October 16, 2015
Al-Nusra Terrorists Perpetrate a Massacre in Homs, “Synchronized” with Syria-Russia Operations By SANA, October 16, 2015
Obama The Stooge versus Putin the Statesman By Christian B. Malaparte, October 16, 2015
Israelis Urged to Carry Guns to Murder Palestinians By Stephen Lendman, October 16, 2015
Putin is Defeating More than ISIS in Syria. “The Hypocritical Obama Administration Mask has been Blown Off” By F. William Engdahl, October 16, 2015
US ‘Adjusts’ Military Aid Program to Supply New Rebel Group in Syria. By RT, October 15, 2015
Greek Melkite Archbishop urges British not to support “Islamic Militants” in Syria By Simon Caldwell, October 15, 2015
Turkish Government Tries to Repress a Growing Wave of Protests By Halil Celik, October 15, 2015
America’s Strategy in the Middle East: “The Most Moderate Rebel” By South Front, October 15, 2015
Obama Could Stop Israeli State Terror with One Phone Call He Won’t Make By Stephen Lendman, October 15, 2015
Did Russia’s Intervention Derail Turkey’s Plan to Invade Syria? By Mike Whitney, October 15, 2015
US, Russian Military Meet amid Warnings over War Threat By Bill Van Auken, October 15, 2015
“The New Middle East”: Russian Style. Analysis of Geopolitical Scenarios By Andrew Korybko, October 15, 2015
The West is Lying About Iran: Iran Has Been Transparent and Accountable Over its Nuclear Program By Andre Vltchek and Kourosh Ziabari, October 15, 2015
Is Barack Obama Actually TRYING To Start World War III? By Michael Snyder, October 15, 2015
US Airdrops 50 Tons of Ammo to ‘Rebels’ After ISIS Loses Most Supplies in Russian Airstrikes By Stuart Hooper, October 15, 2015
Israeli Soldier Gives Water to Blind Elderly Palestinian Woman for Propaganda, Then Kills Her By Global Research News, October 14, 2015
Israeli Anti-Palestinian Viciousness Rages By Stephen Lendman, October 14, 2015
Smashing the Abbas Icon of Palestinian Non–Violence By Nicola Nasser, October 14, 2015
CIA Rebrands ‘Moderate’ Rebels: Now They’re the ‘Syrian Democratic Forces’! By Russia Insider, October 14, 2015
EU Directly Funds Israeli Military Companies and Institutions By European Coordination of Committees and Associations for Palestine, October 14, 2015
Training “Moderate Terrorists”: A Half-A-Billion-Dollar Waste…Or Was It? By Andrew Korybko and Hamsa Haddad, October 14, 2015
As Unrest Grows in Israel and Palestine, Netanyahu Seeks Scapegoats By Jonathan Cook, October 14, 2015
“Terrorist International” Takes Shape … Against Russia By Boris Volkhonsky, October 13, 2015
Iraq
Exponentially Rising Global Terrorism By Stephen Lendman, October 13, 2015
What Moscow Conveyed Through Its Caspian Cruise Missile Strike against Terrorist Strongholds in Syria By Andrew Korybko, October 13, 2015
Rockets hit Russian Embassy in Damascus. Al Qaeda Terrorists Fired Two Shells at Embassy By Press TV, October 13, 2015
Israel: The Most Dangerous Place in the World for any Jew By Anthony Bellchambers, October 13, 2015
US Cargo Planes Drop Ammunition and Explosives to “Moderate Terrorists” in Northern Syria By Alalam, October 13, 2015
“Operation Hmeymim”: Strategic Implications of Russia’s Cruise Missiles’ Launch, Targeting Terrorists in Syria By Vladimir Kozin, October 13, 2015
When the Truth is Inverted: Obama Says Russian Strikes on ISIS are “Strengthening” ISIS By Steven MacMillan, October 13, 2015
The U.S. Government Supplied ISIS’ Iconic Pickup Trucks By Washington's Blog, October 13, 2015
UN Security Council Authorizes EU Naval Forces to Attack Vessels Transporting Refugees in the Mediterranean By Abayomi Azikiwe, October 13, 2015
US Airdrops Arms in Syria as Russia Escalates Bombing Campaign By Bill Van Auken, October 13, 2015
Western Aid to Terrorists: Iraqi Forces Seize US-Supplied Anti-Armor Missiles from ISIS in Fallujah By Fars News Agency, October 13, 2015
Week One of the Russian Military Intervention in Syria. Dangerous Times. What Next? By The Saker, October 12, 2015
The Fakery of ‘The Free World’ By Eric Zuesse, October 12, 2015
Russia and Saudi Arabia Agree on Common Goals, Deepening Crisis in Ukraine By Global Research News, October 12, 2015
The Myth of Syria’s “Moderate Rebels”. Ninety Percent of the “Syrian Rebels” Supported by Washington are Terrorists By South Front, October 12, 2015
Recognizing Neocon Failure Shows Obama Has Come To His Senses? By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, October 12, 2015
Russia Supplants the U.S. in Global War Against “Jihadists”. Saudi Arabia Favors “A Political Solution in Syria” By Eric Zuesse, October 12, 2015
Breaking the Silence on the Destruction of Yemen By James Corbett, October 12, 2015
Senate Hearing Suggests that US Sponsored “Moderate Terrorists” in Syria Use Refugees as Human Shields By Tony Cartalucci, October 12, 2015
“The New Middle East”: Russian Style. The Saudis are Running Scared By Andrew Korybko, October 12, 2015