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.
Iraq Crisis Exacerbates Divisions Within Iranian Elite By Keith Jones, June 21, 2014
Washington Escalates Intervention in Region-Wide Middle East War By Bill Van Auken, June 21, 2014
Russia Reignites The Proxy War: Putin Offers “Complete Support” To Iraq Prime Minister Scorned By Obama By Zero Hedge, June 21, 2014
The Redrawing of the Map of the Middle East Begins with the Destruction of Iraq By Larry Chin, June 21, 2014
US Meddling in Iraqi Affairs May Lead to More Civilian Casualties By Lyudmila Chernova, June 20, 2014
Obama Exploits Iraq Crisis as Pretext for War Against Syria By Patrick Martin and Joseph Kishore, June 20, 2014
Attack on Iraq Would Violate US Law, Experts Warn By Sarah Lazare, June 20, 2014
ISIS Domestic Terror Threat Created by CIA and U.S. Military By Kurt Nimmo, June 20, 2014
The Democratic Push to Bomb Iraq Again By David Swanson, June 20, 2014
Human Rights Violator Israel will Lead UN Committee on Decolonization and Palestinian Refugees By Ali Abunimah, June 20, 2014
The ISIS Fiasco: It’s Really an Attack on Iran By Mike Whitney, June 20, 2014
Syria’s Press Conference the United Nations Doesn’t Want You To See By Global Research News, June 20, 2014
Syria’s Election and the Role of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL): Mahdi Nazemroaya By The Taylor Report and Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya, June 20, 2014
The US Invasion of Iraq: The Most Cowardly War ever Fought in History By Arundhati Roy, June 19, 2014
Back to Iraq, and Welcome to the Suicide State By Danny Schechter, June 19, 2014
Iraqi Government Requests Washington to Carry Out US Air Strikes against Sunni Insurgents By James Cogan, June 19, 2014
Stop Calling the Iraq War a “Mistake”: Dennis Kucinich By Dennis Kucinich, June 19, 2014
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS): An Instrument of the Western Military Alliance By Prof Michel Chossudovsky and Bonnie Faulkner, June 19, 2014
The Iraq ISIS Insurgency and the Anglo-American Battle For Oil By Felicity Arbuthnot, June 18, 2014
America’s War Crime in Iraq By Margaret Kimberley, June 18, 2014
U.S. Trained ISIS at Secret Jordan Base By Aaron Klein, June 18, 2014
Antagonizing Palestinians, Australia’s Linguistic Blunder Snowballs By Nicola Nasser, June 18, 2014
ISIS “Made in USA”. Iraq “Geopolitical Arsonists” Seek to Burn Region By Tony Cartalucci, June 18, 2014
Al Qaeda with a “Human Face”: Syria Rejects Politicized, Unprofessional Reports of UN Commission of Inquiry By Mazen Eyon, June 18, 2014
A Voice from Inside Mosul: Interview with an Iraqi Human Rights Defender By Global Research News, June 18, 2014
Libya Coming Full Circle. When A Deemed “Conspiracy Theory” Becomes Reality By Sam Muhho, June 18, 2014
Iraq: The US Sponsored Sectarian “Civil War” is a “War of Aggression”, The “Supreme International Crime” By Inder Comar, June 18, 2014
Iraq Prime Minister Sacks Senior Military Officers over Failure to Fight ISIS Rebels By Xinhua, June 18, 2014
Iraq Witnessing a Popular Revolution, Association of Muslim Scholars By BRussells Tribunal, June 18, 2014
The US Media and the Debacle in Iraq By Bill Van Auken, June 17, 2014
Washington seeks “Collaboration” with Tehran as Civil War in Iraq Intensifies By Chris Marsden, June 17, 2014
The Truth About US Troops “Sent to Iraq” By Tony Cartalucci, June 17, 2014
US Sponsored Commandos Responsible for Abducting, Torturing and Killing Iraqis. The Role of Paul Bremer By Prof Souad N. Al-Azzawi, June 17, 2014
US Occupation of Iraq is the Cause of Sectarian Strife and Al Qaeda Attacks By Denis Halliday, June 17, 2014
ISIL Opens Clandestine Branch in Jordan By Alalam, June 17, 2014
Israel Violates International Law and Imposes Collective Punishment on Palestinians After Settlers Disappear By Adam Horowitz, June 17, 2014
Iraqi Working Class Rejects Sectarianism and Foreign Intervention: “Obama is Concerned About Oil, not About People” By Falah Alwan, June 17, 2014
US to Launch Another Invasion of Iraq By Nikolai Bobkin, June 17, 2014
Blair: Bombing Iraq Better. Again By David Cromwell and David Edwards, June 16, 2014
The Almighty Mess in Iraq, Courtesy of Bush and Cheney By Eric Margolis, June 16, 2014
Civil War Escalates in Iraq amid Reports of Sectarian Massacres By James Cogan, June 16, 2014
Baghdad in a State of Panic. Gunmen are 20 km. from the Capital By al Akhbar, June 16, 2014
Graphic – Mass Execution of Iraqi Soldiers & Civilians by US Sponsored ISIS Terrorists By Global Research News, June 16, 2014
How Obama Lost Iraq and the War on Terror By Shamus Cooke, June 15, 2014
Truth or Propaganda? Hollywood to Produce Film on Six-Day War Called ‘Jerusalem 67’ By Timothy Alexander Guzman, June 15, 2014
Washington’s Iraq “Victory” By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, June 14, 2014
The Debacle in Iraq By Bill Van Auken, June 14, 2014
Resurgence of Al Qaeda in Iraq, Fuelled by Saudi Arabia By Zayd Alisa, June 14, 2014
The Benghazi Scandal Is “Obama’s Watergate” But Worse By Joachim Hagopian, June 14, 2014
The U.S. Mainstream Media’s One-Sided View of the Iraq War: “Iraq Is a Place Where Americans Suffered” By Peter Hart, June 13, 2014
The Middle East and the Pivot to Asia: Obama’s US Foreign Policy Bait and Switch By Jack A. Smith, June 13, 2014
How the US is Arming Both Sides of the Iraqi Conflict By Zero Hedge, June 13, 2014
Iraq Crisis threatens to Ignite Regional War By Bill Van Auken, June 13, 2014
America’s Covert Re-Invasion of Iraq By Tony Cartalucci, June 13, 2014
The Most Cancerous Street in Iraq? Extremely High Rates of Cancer in Area Bombed by the US By Saleem al-Wazzan, June 13, 2014
The Latest Debacle in Iraq Black Flags Over Mosul By Mike Whitney, June 12, 2014
Iraq Gives Obama Green Light To Commence “Kinetic Support” Against Al Qaeda By Zero Hedge, June 12, 2014
Iraq: Fighting Terrorism or Political Opposition? By Geneva International Centre for Justice, June 12, 2014
The Syrian Vote: The People Reject Regime Change By Dr. Chandra Muzaffar, June 12, 2014
Crimes of US Imperialism and the Fall of Mosul to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant By Bill Van Auken, June 12, 2014
Eyewitness Report: Documentary about the 2014 Syrian Presidential Elections By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya, June 12, 2014
Al Qaeda Takes Over Second Largest City in Iraq … But Al Qaeda was not even in Iraq until the U.S. Invaded By Washington's Blog, June 11, 2014
“Friendly Fire”: US Air Strike Kills Five American Special Operations Troops in Afghanistan By Bill Van Auken, June 11, 2014
US Ambassador to the UN, Samantha Powers, in Turkey and Jordan to Discuss Syria By Timothy Alexander Guzman, June 11, 2014
Al Qaeda Offshoot ISIS Captures Mosul from Iraqi Government Forces By Barry Grey, June 11, 2014
Hamas-Fatah Reconciliation: “Unity” Engineered by Israel By Jonathan Cook, June 10, 2014
Benghazi, the CIA, and the War in Libya By Eric Draitser, June 09, 2014
USS Liberty Attacked by Israel 47 Years Ago: The U.S. Left Soldiers Behind By Ray McGovern, June 09, 2014
Water War? Turkey Cuts Water Supply to Syria. Euphrates Shut Down By Michael Collins, June 07, 2014
Please, Ambassador Ford. Name me a “Moderate” Syrian rebel By Global Research News, June 06, 2014
Boko Haram: “Economic Fundamentalism” and Impoverishment Send Unemployed Youths Into Religious Militias By Prof. Horace Campbell, June 06, 2014
Neo-Colonialism and the Changing Nature of Imperialism in Africa By Abayomi Azikiwe, June 05, 2014
Ukraine vs Syria: The Only Standards Are Double Standards By Robert Parry, June 05, 2014
Is there a New Cold War that Impacts Africa? By Abayomi Azikiwe, June 05, 2014
Bleeding Syria is Now the Agenda: Elections are a Battle Won, but the War Goes On By Tony Cartalucci, June 05, 2014
The Chilcot Inquiry on Iraq, Instigated by the Perpetrators of War Crimes: The Greatest Scandal of our Generation By David Lawley Wakelin, June 05, 2014
Iraq: Shell Kills 12 from one Family in Fallujah – Fighting Outbreak in Ramadi By Global Research News, June 05, 2014
Imperialism and Elections in Syria, Egypt and Ukraine By Sara Flounders, June 05, 2014
Israel’s Medieval Ban on Intermarriage By Jonathan Cook, June 04, 2014
Re-shaping the Taliban Leadership? Sustaining “America’s War on Terrorism” By Umberto Pascali, June 04, 2014