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.
Israel’s Threat Scenario: “One-State Solution” for Israel – Palestine, Proposed Annexation of Over 60 % of West Bank By Dr. Ludwig Watzal, November 11, 2014
Iraq, Libya, Syria: Wars, Failed States and Balkanisation: The Forte of Western Foreign Policy Planners By Steven MacMillan, November 11, 2014
Message To U.S. Active Military – Are You Truly A Hero? By Bernie Suarez, November 10, 2014
US Steps Up Military Operations in Iraq, Syria By Patrick Martin, November 10, 2014
Obama on Iraq: “Now What we Need Is Ground Troops” By Steve Watson, November 10, 2014
Palestinians Clash with Israeli Troops over Young Palestinian’s Death By Press TV, November 09, 2014
Obama Doubles US Troop Strength in Iraq By Patrick Martin, November 09, 2014
“Peacemaking, Advising and Assisting”: More US Combat Troops to Iraq By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, November 09, 2014
Critics Slam US Military’s ‘Disturbing’ Praise for Israel’s Gaza Offensive By Common Dreams, November 08, 2014
Khorasan: Pentagon Says Fantasy Terror Group Bombed to Protect Homeland By Kurt Nimmo, November 08, 2014
Tony Blair Enables Israeli Raids in the West Bank By David Cronin, November 07, 2014
US: “Stop ISIS By Attacking Assad’s Oil Pipelines!” By Brandon Turbeville, November 07, 2014
Four Protesters Killed, Dozens Arrested across Egypt By Press TV, November 07, 2014
Failures of International Law and Human Rights Institutions: Palestine, Syria and Iraq in 2014 By John Philpot, November 07, 2014
Obama Ready to Talk with Congress About Official Approval for “Long-Term” War in Middle East By Jon Queally, November 07, 2014
Outrage as the International Criminal Court (ICC) Drops Case Against Israel for Deadly Attack On Humanitarian Flotilla By Sarah Lazare, November 07, 2014
French Military Intervention in the Levant? War with Hezbollah on the Horizon? By Timothy Alexander Guzman, November 07, 2014
Syrian Activists from the Occupied Golan Heights Condemn “Suspicious Visits” by “Racist” Israeli Politician By Patrick Strickland, November 06, 2014
Discovering Iran. Women’s Rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran By Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich, November 06, 2014
Obama’s Secret Deals with Saudi Arabia and Qatar. What’s Behind Lower Gas-Prices and the Bombing of Syria and Eastern Ukraine By Eric Zuesse, November 06, 2014
West Re-Arms Al-Nusra – Mainstream Media Continues Coverup By Brandon Turbeville, November 06, 2014
Canada Launches First Air Strikes in Iraq By Roger Jordan and Keith Jones, November 06, 2014
Divide and Rule: America Ignites a Politico-Religious “Civil War” in Iraq and Syria By Prof Rodrigue Tremblay, November 05, 2014
105 Israeli Ex-Generals, Spy Chiefs Call on Netanyahu to Make Peace With Palestinians By RT News, November 05, 2014
India: The Insidious Logic of “Bilateral Investment Protection Agreements” (BIPA) By Kavaljit Singh, November 05, 2014
Israeli Soldiers Invade Jerusalem Al-Aqsa Mosque. Deliberate Provocation. What is Israel’s Hidden Agenda? By IMEMC, November 05, 2014
Obama, the “Enabler in Chief” of 2014 Massacre against Palestinian Refugees By Robert Barsocchini and Norman Finkelstein, November 05, 2014
As Conditions in Gaza Worsen, Residents Ask: ‘Where Have all the Activists Gone?’ By Pam Bailey, November 05, 2014
Energy Shock: What Happened to Over-Priced Oil? By Andrew McKillop, November 05, 2014
Israel Moves to Outlaw Palestinian Political Parties in the Knesset By Jonathan Cook, November 05, 2014
Washington-backed “Rebels” Surrender US Arms to Al Qaeda in Syria By Bill Van Auken, November 04, 2014
Media Black-Out on Arab Journalists and Civilians Beheaded in Syria by Western-Backed Mercenaries By Eva Bartlett, November 03, 2014
Unfree in Palestine: The Psychological and Cultural Anatomy of the Awe-Inspiring Palestinian Resistance By Prof Denis Rancourt, November 03, 2014
Amendment to Israel’s Penal Code: “Up to 20 Years Prison Sentence” for Stone-Throwing at Cars By Anthony Bellchambers, November 03, 2014
ISIS Destroying Iraq’s Cultural Heritage: UNESCO Chief By al Akhbar, November 02, 2014
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi: The Caliph Fit to Join OPEC By Pepe Escobar, November 02, 2014
“ISIS the Sand Pirates”: The Islamic State’s Paramilitary, America’s 21st Century Terror Privateers? By Patrick Henningsen, November 02, 2014
US General John Allen Discusses “Coalition Plans for Defeating ISIS” By Global Research News, November 02, 2014
Geopolitical Upheaval in West Asia and North Africa. Who is Responsible? By Dr. Chandra Muzaffar, November 02, 2014
​Gaza Cut Off: Israel Closes Border Crossings Indefinitely By RT News, November 02, 2014
Project Censored: Latest Developments on Ukraine By Prof. Nolan Higdon, Peter Phillips, Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya, Sara Flounders, and Dr. Jack Rasmus, November 02, 2014
US Destroying Syria’s Oil Infrastructure Under Guise of Fighting The Islamic State (ISIS) By Maram Susli, November 01, 2014
Top US General Calls for “Advisers” in Iraq Combat Zone By Bill Van Auken, November 01, 2014
Libya, A Nation in Despair By Timothy Alexander Guzman, October 31, 2014
EU’s Foreign Policy Chief Catherine Ashton: An Enforcer of Israel’s Occupation By David Cronin, October 31, 2014
Google Survey: Majority of US Citizens Think US Gives Too Much to Israel By Robert Barsocchini, October 30, 2014
Racism and Segregation in Israel: Under Israeli Apartheid, Palestinians Cannot Ride Israeli Buses By Ben Norton, October 29, 2014
After the US Election, an Escalation of the Mideast War By Bill Van Auken, October 29, 2014
Media Language that “Disappears the Palestinians” By Jonathan Cook, October 29, 2014
How a US and International Atomic Energy Agency Deception Haunts the Nuclear Talks By Gareth Porter, October 28, 2014
Blackwater Guards Found Guilty in 2007 Baghdad Killings – US Government Rewarding War Crimes with Millions in Contracts By Pratap Chatterjee, October 28, 2014
ISIS: America’s Terrorist Mercenaries By Tony Cartalucci, October 28, 2014
How Israel is Turning Gaza into a Super-Max Prison By Jonathan Cook, October 28, 2014
Netanyahu Makes Contingency Plans to Deal with Possible European Trade Embargo By Anthony Bellchambers, October 27, 2014
Kuwait Boycotts International Companies Working with Israel in the Occupied Territories By Middle East Monitor, October 27, 2014
Big Oil, Qataris, Saudis Lick Lips As US ‘Fights ISIS’ By Bombing Syrian Pipelines By Brandon Turbeville, October 27, 2014
Germany Plans to Expand its Military Operations in the Middle East By Johannes Stern, October 26, 2014
U.S.-Israel Relationship in Crisis as Washington Refuses to Meet with Netanyahu’s Defence Minister Ya’alon By Anthony Bellchambers, October 26, 2014
The Pentagon and Big Oil: Militarism and Capital Accumulation By Prof. James Petras, October 26, 2014
The Kobani Riddle and the Islamic State (ISIL) By Pepe Escobar, October 26, 2014
US War on Iran Takes Bizarre Turn. US Covert Support to Mujahedeen-e-Khalq (MEK) By Tony Cartalucci, October 26, 2014
America’s Policy: “Licence to Kill” in Iraq and Syria, War Now, Justifications Later By Ryan McNamara, October 25, 2014
Washington Post Seizes on Chemical Weapons Claims to Press for Wider War in Syria By Niles Williamson, October 25, 2014
Why Obama Rejected Peace With Iran By Shamus Cooke, October 25, 2014
Russia Offers Support to Palestinian Statehood By Oleg Yegorov, October 24, 2014
US-led Coalition Bills Iraq $260 Million Despite Failure to Stop ISIS Advances By Mustafa al-Furati, October 24, 2014
ISIL Truth and the Suspicious Death of Journalist Serena Shim: Hypocritical Western Media Remains Silent By Eric Draitser, October 24, 2014
“‘Routine Mistakes” in the Delivery of US Military Aid: Pentagon Admits Weapons-drop to Islamic State Terrorists By RT, October 24, 2014
Blackwater Mercenaries Convicted for Role in 2007 Iraq Massacre By Thomas Gaist, October 23, 2014
Canada: Withdraw From The US-led Coalition For War in Iraq and Syria! By Global Research News, October 22, 2014
U.S. “Humanitarian Aid” is Being Channeled to …The Islamic State (ISIL) By Jamie Dettmer, October 22, 2014
Obama Administration Withholding 2,100 US Military Torture Photos By RT, October 22, 2014
Dark Times: What to Do. The Role and Responsibility of Intellectuals By Arthur D. Robbins, October 22, 2014
Iraqi Doctors Call Depleted Uranium Use “Genocide” By Dahr Jamail, October 22, 2014
New York Times FAIL: ‘McCain No Connections To ISIS?!?’ By Brandon Turbeville, October 21, 2014
Unofficial US “Military Aid” to Islamic State: US Airdropped Weapons in Hands of ISIL Terrorists By Press TV, October 21, 2014
America’s Saudi Ally “Cuts Off More Heads” than the Islamic State (ISIL) By Robert Barsocchini, October 21, 2014
Israel’s Most Important Source of Capital: California By Darwin Bond Graham, October 21, 2014
Turkish Government Seeks New Police State Powers By Jean Shaoul, October 21, 2014
US Boosts Support for Kurdish Militia in Syria By Peter Symonds, October 21, 2014