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.
Leaked Files: How Britain Trains Jordan to Spy on Its Citizens By Kit Klarenberg, January 25, 2023
The US Holds Iraq Hostage with the Dollar By Zaher Mousa, January 25, 2023
Syria and US War Crimes: The Reckoning Is Coming By Christopher Black, January 25, 2023
Egyptian Economic Crisis Has Hit Syrian-Owned Businesses By Steven Sahiounie, January 24, 2023
US ‘Secretly Supports’ Armed Groups in Afghanistan? By Farshad Daryosh, January 23, 2023
Surprise! Arab Public Gives US Sponsored “Abraham Accords” a Big Thumbs Down By Connor Echols, January 23, 2023
Iraq: US Dollar-smuggling Crackdown Leaves Baghdad Struggling to Pay Wages By Suadad al-Salhy, January 23, 2023
Saudi Crown Prince bin Salman (MBS) Defies the US Policy Against Syria By Steven Sahiounie, January 22, 2023
“The US will leave Syria once the YPG reconcile with Damascus.” Interview with Dr. Ahmad Alderzi By Dr. Ahmad Alderzi and Steven Sahiounie, January 20, 2023
Netanyahu’s Claim of Jewish Exclusivity in Palestine Must be Challenged By Iqbal Jassat, January 19, 2023
Israel High Court Disqualifies Interior Minister Deri From Holding Office By Middle East Eye, January 19, 2023
Ukraine War Spills Over Into the Middle East By Philip Giraldi, January 18, 2023
Syria’s Power Dynamic Is Shifting By M. K. Bhadrakumar, January 18, 2023
The Biden Administration’s Dangerous Move to Deepen Military Ties with Israel By Mitchell Plitnick, January 18, 2023
Iraqi Prime Minister Supports Open-Ended US Troop Presence By Dave DeCamp, January 17, 2023
A Third Intifada and the Last War. Palestine and the Global South By Timothy Alexander Guzman, January 17, 2023
Israel: Tens of Thousands Protest Government in Tel Aviv By Middle East Eye, January 16, 2023
UK Support of the Illegal Annexation of Palestinian Lands By Hans Stehling, January 15, 2023
“Imagining Palestine”: A Strongly Presented ‘Ideation’ of Palestine By Jim Miles, January 15, 2023
CIA Arrives in Libya to Manipulate Elections By Steven Sahiounie, January 15, 2023
Yemen War Continues Beyond Media Spotlight By Felix Abt, January 13, 2023
Israel’s New Government Will Put American Lives at Risk By Brian McGlinchey, January 12, 2023
Former Israeli Intel Chief Says Israel Convinced US to Kill Soleimani By Dave DeCamp, January 11, 2023
Protests in Iran By Misa Djurkovic, January 11, 2023
Turkey and Syria Meeting in Moscow May Result in Peace Plan By Steven Sahiounie, January 11, 2023
UK Loaned Military Adviser to British UN Envoy in Yemen By Matt Kennard and Mark Curtis, January 09, 2023
Jerusalem Churches in Crosshairs of Escalating Extremist Attacks: Churches Council By Anadolu Agency, January 09, 2023
OPEC’s Second-Largest Oil Producer Issues Arrest Warrant for Donald Trump By Charles Kennedy, January 09, 2023
Video: Anti-Zionist Jewish Community Flying Palestinian Flags in Jerusalem By Neturei Karta, January 09, 2023
Is Ben-Gvir Preparing a Holy War Against the Palestinians? Jonathan Cook By Jonathan Cook, January 06, 2023
Erdogan Wants to Solve the Kurdish Problem with Assad By Hamide Rencüzoğulları and Steven Sahiounie, January 06, 2023
Netanyahu Admits Israeli Government Partnered with Pfizer to Compile Genetic Database of Population By Ethan Huff, January 05, 2023
The Likud Party of Netanyahu, A Terrorist Organisation? By Hans Stehling, January 05, 2023
Sportswashed: Ronaldo Heads to Saudi Arabia By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, January 05, 2023
The UN General Assembly Drags Israel to the World Court By Dr. Chandra Muzaffar, January 05, 2023
2022 US Middle East Policy Review and 2023 Forecast By Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy, January 04, 2023
A Gloomy 2023? Here Are Some Bright Spots By Rep. Ron Paul, January 03, 2023
Israel’s Ben-Gvir Storms Al-Aqsa in ‘Unprecedented Provocation’ By Middle East Eye, January 03, 2023
Documented Analysis of Unfolding Events in Syria. Mark Taliano By Mark Taliano and Hrvoje Morić, January 02, 2023
New Israeli Government: Far-right or Racist? By Jamal Kanj, January 02, 2023
Lebanon Is a Failed State Today By Steven Sahiounie, January 02, 2023
Russia Consolidates in East Mediterranean By M. K. Bhadrakumar, January 01, 2023
Extremist Christian Militia in Lebanon May Ignite a New Civil War By Steven Sahiounie, January 01, 2023
Undisguised Fascists Hold Balance of Power in New Israeli Annexationist Regime By Richard Becker, December 30, 2022
UN Experts: US Sanctions Violate Iranians’ Human Rights By Ben Norton, December 27, 2022
Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East (CJPME): On Far-Right Israel Government By Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East, December 23, 2022
Israel: How Netanyahu Handed Ben-Gvir the Gun to Start an Annexation War By Jonathan Cook, December 23, 2022
September 11, 2001, 21 Years Later: Renowned Architect and CIA Whistleblower Contradict the Official Story. By Michael Welch, Richard Gage, and Susan Lindauer, December 23, 2022
Israel, Former Liberal Democracy, Is Now an Extremist Nuclear-armed State By Hans Stehling, December 22, 2022
Warren, Jacobs Accuse Pentagon of Vastly Undercounting Civilians Killed by US Military By Brett Wilkins, December 22, 2022
Washington’s Dubious Syria Intervention Continues By Ted Galen Carpenter, December 22, 2022
Jordan Vows Crack Down on Protestors “Tied to Terrorism” By Steven Sahiounie, December 21, 2022
Israel’s Far-right Government Removes the Mask that Enabled Western Complacency By Gideon Levy, December 20, 2022
2022 Was Deadliest Year for Palestinians Under Occupation on Record, with 153 Killed by Israeli Forces, Squatters: UN By Prof. Juan Cole, December 20, 2022
500,000 Internally Displaced Palestinian Citizens of Israel Prevented from Returning to Their Villages By Khaled Mouammar, December 19, 2022
Xi of Arabia and the Petroyuan Drive By Pepe Escobar, December 18, 2022
The Road to World War III: How US-NATO Forces Turned Libya into Hell on Earth By Timothy Alexander Guzman, December 18, 2022
“Israeli Exceptionalism” Is a Canadian Value that Forgives Apartheid Israel All Its Crimes By Khaled Mouammar, December 16, 2022
US Sanctions Are Killing Syrians and Are a Human Rights Violation By Steven Sahiounie, December 16, 2022
Existential Threat to Israel from Russian-Iranian Alliance By Hans Stehling, December 16, 2022
Another Political Framework Signed in Sudan By Abayomi Azikiwe, December 15, 2022
Netanyahu
Israeli Election Results Shatter Illusion About the Possibility of a Two Party State By John Kiriakou, December 14, 2022
How to Trash a Movie in Support of a Lie By Philip Giraldi, December 13, 2022
UN: More Than 11,000 Children Killed or Maimed in Yemen War By Middle East Monitor, December 13, 2022
“Violence will escalate as long as extremists are allied to Netanyahu”: Interview with Tawfieq Toameh By Tawfieq Toameh and Steven Sahiounie, December 13, 2022
Execution of a Protester Intensifies Opposition to Clerical Rule in Iran By Prof. Akbar E. Torbat, December 12, 2022
Israel Strikes Southern Syria, Drops Threatening Leaflets By Dave DeCamp, December 12, 2022
Xi Jinping’s Visit to Saudi Arabia and the Overthrow of Atlanticism By Matthew Ehret-Kump, December 12, 2022
US Internationalises Iran’s Unrest By M. K. Bhadrakumar, December 09, 2022
On International Human Rights Day, Canada Must Remember the Palestinians By Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East, December 08, 2022
Lawsuit Filed in Iraq Against Trump, Aides for Assassination of Qassem Soleimani and Al-Muhandis By Peoples Dispatch, December 07, 2022
Iraq’s ‘Theft of the Century’: Plotters Targeted Chinese and Russian Oil Companies By Suadad al-Salhy, December 07, 2022
Turkish and Egyptian Leaders Meet at the World Cup in Qatar By Steven Sahiounie, December 05, 2022
Palestine-Israel: The History and the Evidence By Hans Stehling, December 03, 2022
US, Israel Hold Joint Aerial Drills Simulating Attacks on Iran By Dave DeCamp, December 02, 2022
American Forces Needlessly Caught in Turkish Crossfire By Natalie Armbruster, December 02, 2022
11 Years On… UK Gets What It Was Always After; Libya’s Oil By Al Mayadeen, December 02, 2022
Turkey’s Repression of the Kurds, Kurdistan as an Independent State, “The Kosovo Syndrome” By Dr. Vladislav B. Sotirović, December 01, 2022
Israelis Are Not Welcome in Qatar During the 2022 World Cup By Steven Sahiounie, November 30, 2022
War in Afghanistan
21 Years Ago, The Invasion of Afghanistan on October 7, 2001: Did the 9/11 Attacks Justify the War in Afghanistan? By David Ray Griffin, November 29, 2022