Middle East & North Africa

Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, today’s de facto ruler of Damascus, has an eloquent history: he began his jihadist militancy in al-Qaeda’s ranks as an associate of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the “caliph” who founded ISIS, the Islamic State of Iraq and

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.
VIDEO: Egypt Riots: US Playing Both Sides? By Andrew Gavin Marshall, February 01, 2011
WikiLeaks Cable Shows Close US Ties With New Egyptian Vice President By Joseph Kishore, February 01, 2011
Is War with Iran Inevitable? By Ali Fathollah-Nejad, February 01, 2011
VIDEO: The Global Awakening vs. The Internet Kill Switch By James Corbett, January 31, 2011
Things Have To Change In Order To Remain The Same By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, January 31, 2011
World Revolution Made in America. The Biggest Battlefield yet to come will be in the USA By Finian Cunningham, January 31, 2011
The Middle East at a Strategic Crossroads: Threat to US Hegemony? By Nicola Nasser, January 31, 2011
Can the Palestinian Authority survive? By Jonathan Cook, January 31, 2011
Egypt’s Rising Food Prices: The Economic Crisis Is Driving Political Protests Sparked In Part By US Financial Speculation By Danny Schechter, January 31, 2011
Egyptian Uprising Must Address U.S Interference and the Role of Israel in the Region By Ghada Chehade, January 31, 2011
Washington’s Plan B: Why Obama Fears Democracy in Egypt By Shamus Cooke, January 31, 2011
Is the Egyptian Government Using Agents Provocateur to Justify a Crack Down On the Protesters? By Washington's Blog, January 30, 2011
The Egyptian Intifada; Mubarak’s time is up By Mike Whitney, January 30, 2011
Egypt. Rude Awakening! Revolution or Regime Change? By Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich, January 30, 2011
Egypt: Anonymous poster campaign backing intelligence chief Omar Suleiman to take over the presidency By Global Research, January 30, 2011
Egypt: Cue the Dirty Tricks, False Flags To Discredit Pro-Democracy Movement By Finian Cunningham, January 30, 2011
The CIA’s Role in Egypt’s Regime Change? Who Is Omar Suleiman? By Jane Mayer, January 30, 2011
Egypt Protests Show American Foreign-Policy Folly By Stephen Kinzer, January 30, 2011
Egypt protests: America’s secret backing for rebel leaders behind uprising By Global Research, January 29, 2011
Egypt: Washington Has Finger on the Trigger for More Bloodshed By Finian Cunningham, January 29, 2011
VIDEO: Brzezinski’s Feared “Global Awakening” Has Arrived By Paul Joseph Watson, January 29, 2011
Egypt: US-Backed Repression is Insight for American Public By Finian Cunningham, January 28, 2011
Egyptian Government on Last Legs, Says ElBaradei By Jack Schenker and Haroon Siddique, January 28, 2011
Tunisia: How We Got Here and the Task Ahead By Ramzy Baroud, January 28, 2011
Lebanon: A Welcome End to the Hariri Era By Rannie Amiri, January 27, 2011
Lebanese Conflict Threatens Civil War, Israeli-US Intervention By Jean Shaoul, January 27, 2011
US Pursues Two-Track Policy to Suppress Protests in Egypt and Tunisia By Barry Grey, January 27, 2011
Middle East: the Undoing of America’s Mendacious Foreign Policy By Finian Cunningham, January 27, 2011
Are We Witnessing the Start of a Global Revolution? By Andrew Gavin Marshall, January 27, 2011
Revival of a Military Option: Israel’s Covert War Against Iran Is On By Muriel Mirak-Weissbach, January 26, 2011
The Palestine Papers: Israel’s peacemakers unmasked By Jonathan Cook, January 25, 2011
Introducing The Palestine Papers By Global Research, January 25, 2011
Whistleblowing takes on many forms…. He Didn’t Leave Government Service, It Left Him By David Swanson, January 25, 2011
More Evidence of US War Crimes By Patrick Martin, January 24, 2011
Antigovernment Protests Spread Across North Africa and Middle East By Barry Grey, January 24, 2011
Israel: The Ugly Truth By Mya Guarnieri, January 23, 2011
Thousands of Israelis Demonstrate for Human Rights By Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East, January 21, 2011
String of Bomb Attacks Continues in Iraq By Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East, January 21, 2011
America has a Choice in Tunisia: A Historic “U Turn” in US Middle East Foreign Policy By Nicola Nasser, January 21, 2011
Generalizing Tunisia? The Broader Implications for the Arab World By Ramzy Baroud, January 21, 2011
Lebanon and Tunisia: Two Ousted Leaders. By Rannie Amiri, January 20, 2011
Tunisia and the IMF’s Diktats: How Macro-Economic Policy Triggers Worldwide Poverty and Unemployment By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, January 20, 2011
Night in Tunisia: Riots, Strikes and a Spreading Insurgency By Prof David McNally, January 19, 2011
Dictatorship and Neo-Liberalism: The Tunisian People’s Uprising By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya, January 19, 2011
The Hariri Assassination and the Crisis in Lebanon: Selected Global Research Articles By Global Research, January 18, 2011
Tunisia Forms Unity Government Dominated by Ruling Party By Chris Marsden, January 18, 2011
Why Tunisia Changed the World By Shamus Cooke, January 18, 2011
Failure of the Globalization Model: The Arab Spring of Democracy By Abdul Ilah Albayaty, Hana Al-Bayaty, and Ian Douglas, January 17, 2011
The Rafik Hariri Assassination: Was Israel Involved? By Thierry Meyssan, January 17, 2011
The Hariri Assassination: The Role Of Israel? By Rannie Amiri, January 17, 2011
The US-Israeli coup in Beirut By Mike Whitney, January 16, 2011
US-NATO Killings of Civilians in Afghanistan By Marc W. Herold, January 14, 2011
US Pressure Triggers Collapse of Lebanese Government By Bill Van Auken, January 14, 2011
The Collapse of Lebanon’s Government By Rannie Amiri, January 13, 2011
Crisis in Lebanon: Renewed tensions in Beirut as the Lebanese unity government collapses By Rev. Richard Skaff, January 13, 2011
Iran Says Israeli Spy Network Dismantled, Terrorists Arrested By Global Research, January 12, 2011
‘Hit Men Kill 240 Iraqi Officials’ By Global Research, January 12, 2011
Israel Calls for Attack on Iran By Global Research, January 12, 2011
The Next World War: The “Great Game” and the Threat of Nuclear War By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya, January 10, 2011
Riots Shake Tunisia and Algeria By Alex Lantier, January 10, 2011
Wikileaks: Israel planned to strike Hamas financially By Global Research, January 08, 2011
Declaring Palestine: Revisiting Hope and Failure By Ramzy Baroud, January 06, 2011
‘US Drones Kill 938 Pakistanis in 2010’ By Global Research, January 06, 2011
US Forces ‘Interfere’ in Afghan Affairs By Global Research, January 06, 2011
Pentagon in $9.1bn Fraud Case in Iraq By Global Research, January 06, 2011
Israel Prepares Major Offensive against Gaza: Hopes of Gaza Cast in Lead By Prof. Richard Falk, January 05, 2011
Israel: The Next War By Alain Gresh, January 03, 2011
Tunisia: IMF “Economic Medicine” has resulted in Mass Poverty and Unemployment By Prof. Basel Saleh, December 31, 2010
VIDEO: Israel Discovers Giant Gas Field Off Haifa Coast By Global Research, December 31, 2010
Offshore Gas Reserves: Big Gas Find Sparks a Frenzy in Israel By Charles Levinson and Guy Chazan, December 30, 2010
The Drums of War Are Heard Again In Israel By Ilan Pappe, December 30, 2010
UK planning to evacuate expats from the Persian Gulf region in the event of war By Global Research, December 29, 2010
Towards a New Iron Curtain: The US-NATO Missile Shield Encircles Eurasia By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya, December 28, 2010
BDS 2010: Boycott Divestment and Sanctions directed against Israel is a two-edged sword By Eric Walberg, December 28, 2010
Expulsion of Bedouins in Israel’s Negev Desert By Jonathan Cook, December 28, 2010
The 2010 Mideast People of the Year:The Oppressed. By Rannie Amiri, December 24, 2010
Palestinian Statehood on the Agenda By Muriel Mirak-Weissbach, December 18, 2010
Iran’s Foreign Minister Sacked: Did WikiLeaks End Mottaki’s Career? By Rannie Amiri, December 17, 2010
Insisting on Their Humanity: ‘The Plight of the Palestinians’ By Ramzy Baroud, December 16, 2010
Italian PM Warns Israel May Nuke Iran By Global Research, December 13, 2010