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.
America and Israel: Police States Writ Large By Stephen Lendman, November 17, 2013
“The Salvador Option For Syria”: US-NATO Sponsored Death Squads Integrate “Opposition Forces” By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, November 17, 2013
The March to War or The Diplomatic Option: Obama Administration Presses for Talks with Iran By Keith Jones, November 16, 2013
The Pentagon had ordered Photographing Syria’s Latakia Base Before Israeli Air Strike By Global Research News, November 16, 2013
Iran Sanctions Reflect America’s Projection of Power in the Middle East By Prof. James Petras, November 16, 2013
Behind the Diplomatic Conflict over Iran Nuclear Negotiations. Israel Campaigns against Agreement By Richard Becker, November 15, 2013
US Foreign Policy Designs, Geopolitical Roulette: Why the Iran Nuclear Talks Failed By Prof. Ismael Hossein-Zadeh, November 15, 2013
Israel Agrees to Return Stolen Organs of Dead Palestinians By Global Research News, November 15, 2013
Western-Backed Opposition Agrees to Talks Amid Defeats in Syria By Bill Van Auken, November 15, 2013
US Congress Pulling the Strings on Iran Sanctions By Prof. James Petras, November 14, 2013
Fixing Intel Around the Syria Policy By Robert Parry, November 14, 2013
Libya almost Imploding, Status Quo Unsustainable: Oil Industry Target of Violent Attacks By Nicola Nasser, November 13, 2013
Why Israel Wanted Arafat Dead By Jonathan Cook, November 13, 2013
Egypt-Gaza Tunnels: The Lifeline Under Threat By Sawsan Ramahi, November 13, 2013
Canada’s Harper Government Supports Covert Mercenary War on Syria, Funds Al Qaeda Affiliated Rebels By Ken Stone, November 12, 2013
Religious Insult Triggers Violent Protest Against Oil Company in Iraq By Karim Jamil, November 12, 2013
West to Turn Down Syria’s Chemical Weapons Transport Equipment Request By RT, November 12, 2013
Propaganda Alert: The Times Sinks to new Depths: “Assad’s snipers target unborn babies in wombs” By Cem Ertür, November 10, 2013
New Court Documents Detail Abuse of Pregnant Woman in UK-US Libya Renditions By Reprieve, November 10, 2013
Concealing NATO War Crimes: Britain’s Foreign Office Reports on Human Rights Violations in Libya and Iraq By Vladimir Odintsov, November 10, 2013
Iran’s Nuclear Talks: Theater of the Absurd By Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich, November 10, 2013
The CIA is Leading Massive Arms Deliveries to Rebels in Syria, Saudi Arabia is Training Terrorists By Press TV, November 10, 2013
Gaza Students Appeal to the World to Save their School By Global Research News, November 10, 2013
Israeli Bombers over Syria: Al Qaeda’s Air Force By Prof. James Petras, November 09, 2013
Yes… Arafat was Poisoned and Israel Killed Him, But What Can We Do? By Abdel Bari Atwan, November 08, 2013
Did Israel Kill Arafat? By Stephen Lendman, November 08, 2013
US Sanctions and Iranian Nuclear Program By Nikolai Bobkin, November 08, 2013
US-Led Military Alliance Backed Syria Rebels in Using Chemical Weapons By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, November 07, 2013
Faces of Death: Syria Terrorist Opposition Tweet Smiling Photos of Dead ‘Martyrs’ for Fundraising, Recruitment By 21st Century Wire, November 07, 2013
Whitewashing Crime in Israel By Stephen Lendman, November 07, 2013
Turkey Has Let Foreign Supported Terrorists from 83 Countries Enter Syria to Topple Government By Global Research News, November 06, 2013
Syria has Changed: Today, Nobody Doubts that These Crimes Were the Work of Mercenaries and Jihadists By Thierry Meyssan, November 06, 2013
John Kerry Honors Military Dictatorship and Totalitarian Monarchy as Examples of Progress Toward Democracy By Robert Scheer, November 06, 2013
Kerry in Cairo By Stephen Lendman, November 06, 2013
Saudis Fight a Lost Battle against Change By Nicola Nasser, November 06, 2013
US Favors Military Rule in Egypt By Abayomi Azikiwe, November 06, 2013
Syria Analysts, Impartial? Not likely. Think Tank Commentators Posing as Objective Scholars By Phil Greaves, November 06, 2013
The End of American Power? Washington has Lost All Credibility By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, November 05, 2013
The Illegality, Illegitimacy and Immorality of U.S. Drone Strikes By Larry Everest, November 05, 2013
On Why I Hate War By Global Research News, November 05, 2013
Qatar Accepts to Pay $20 Billion for Reconstruction of Syria, Turkish Spy Agency Supports Al Qaeda Affiliated Rebels By Global Research News, November 04, 2013
Israel and the Dangers of Ethnic Nationalism By Jonathan Cook, November 04, 2013
The Chemical Weapons Pretext: Paving the Way for a Future US Military Strike on Syria? By Timothy Alexander Guzman, November 04, 2013
Is Obama Fundamentally Shifting His Middle East Strategy? By Shamus Cooke, November 03, 2013
Iraq Today: America’s Genocidal Legacy By Stephen Lendman, November 03, 2013
Media Fabrications and the War on Syria: How the Western Press Parrots Israeli Propaganda By Phil Greaves, November 03, 2013
Israeli Warplanes Attacked Syria: Tel Aviv outraged by US Intelligence Leaks Concerning Strike By Global Research News, November 02, 2013
Netanyahu Dirty Tricks: Israel Attacks Syria and Gaza By Stephen Lendman, November 02, 2013
Syria: From Fermenting Uprising to Delivering Polio By Felicity Arbuthnot, November 01, 2013
Israel’s Deplorable Human Rights Record By Stephen Lendman, November 01, 2013
NATO and CIA Support Al Qaeda Terrorists in Syria By Tony Cartalucci, November 01, 2013
Neocons Push Israeli-Saudi Alliance By Robert Parry, October 31, 2013
Libya: NATO Bombed Schools in Zliten, Children Taught in Containers By Ahmed Elumami, October 31, 2013
Two Years Since the End of the US-NATO War in Libya By Bill Van Auken, October 31, 2013
Whatever happened to the Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process? By Jonathan Cook, October 31, 2013
Downward Development Spiral in the Arab World: Imperialist Hegemony and the Return of Merchant Capital By Dr. Ali Kadri, October 30, 2013
The “De-Zionization” of Israel: Drying up Ideological Wellsprings of Arab – Israeli Conflict By Nicola Nasser, October 30, 2013
US Determined to Strengthen the Hand of Syrian Rebel Forces By Brian Becker, October 30, 2013
Al Qaeda in China, Islamic Insurgency in Uighur-Xinjiang, China and the US-Saudi-Israeli Plan for the Middle East By Andrew McKillop, October 30, 2013
Deadlock in America’s War on Syria. Moscow Confronts Washington, Significance of UNSC Resolution 2118 By Thierry Meyssan, October 29, 2013
Damascus Violence Part of US “Negotiations” Strategy By Brian Becker, October 28, 2013
Saudi Restores Libyan Spy Chief Moussa Koussa’s Role as Global Shadow Broker By Nasser Charara, October 28, 2013
Geopolitics and the Wahhabist Regime in Saudi Arabia: House of Saud Announces its Own Funeral By Bryce White, October 28, 2013
Does America have a “Licence to Kill”? US Drone War on Yemen Violates International Law By Global Research News, October 26, 2013
Blood unites Iraqis By Al Ahram, October 26, 2013
What “Sanctions” Will Happen If Syrian “Rebels” Are Shown To Have Used Poison Gas? By Bruce A. Dixon, October 25, 2013
Saudi Officials Vent Anger Over US Failure to Attack Syria By Peter Symonds, October 25, 2013
Tunisia’s Transition to Democracy is ‘Difficult, but can be Done’ By Abayomi Azikiwe, October 25, 2013
The Libyan Puzzle in the Scramble for Africa By Sam Muhho, October 24, 2013
Slavery in Qatar By Global Research News, October 24, 2013
The Iran Nuclear File and the Sanctions Regime: What is the End-Game? By Kourosh Ziabari, October 24, 2013
Protests Grow as Western Powers, Rival Militias Loot Libyan Oil Industry By Rosa Shahnazarian, October 24, 2013
Racist Property Restrictions: Illegal in Canada, but Okay in Israel? By Yves Engler, October 23, 2013
Israel: Major International Cocaine Trafficking Hub By Stephen Lendman, October 23, 2013
Israel’s Elections Bring ‘Racism’ to the Fore By Jonathan Cook, October 22, 2013
Reclaiming Judaism from Zionism By Illan Pappé, October 22, 2013
Syrian Peace Talks By Stephen Lendman, October 22, 2013
The Great Nothingness of Libya, Two Years After Muammar Gaddafi By Maximilian Forte, October 21, 2013
Russian Air Force General Visits Iran for talks with Iranian Commanders By Global Research News, October 20, 2013
Saudi Arabia and U.A.E. Preparing for War with Iran? Major Purchases of “Bunker Buster” Bombs and Missiles from Pentagon By Timothy Alexander Guzman, October 18, 2013