Middle East & North Africa

Syria “Liberated” by its own Destroyers By Manlio Dinucci, December 14, 2024

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 …

When Terrorism becomes Counter-terrorism: The State Sponsors of Terrorism are “Going After the Terrorists” By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, May 15, 2022
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.
Ten Years Ago: “Operation Libya” and the Battle for Oil: Redrawing the Map of Africa By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, February 20, 2021
Libya is among the World's largest oil economies with approximately 3.5% of global oil reserves, more than twice those of the US.
America, An Empire on its Last Leg: To be Kicked Out from the Middle East? By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, January 07, 2020
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.
Crown Prince of Saudi MbS Is Working Towards a “Political Solution for Syria” By Steven Sahiounie, June 14, 2023
Israeli Soldiers Shoot Dead Two-Year-Old Palestinian By Philip Giraldi, June 13, 2023
Video: Fake Intelligence and the Destruction of Iraq By Prof Michel Chossudovsky and Michael Welch, June 13, 2023
New US Military Base in Syria — What Is the US Trying to Do Now? By Vanessa Beeley, June 12, 2023
Diplomatic Recovery in the Middle East: Iranian Embassy in Riyadh Reopened By Steven Sahiounie, June 09, 2023
Why the Arab States’ U-turn on Assad Is a Massive Game-changer By Jonathan Steele, June 08, 2023
The Great Betrayal of June 8, 1967: Israel’s Attack on the USS Liberty is Never Mentioned by the US Political Establishment and the Mainstream Media By Timothy Alexander Guzman, June 08, 2023
Resistance to the Occupation of Palestine Heats Up the Egyptian-Israeli Border By Steven Sahiounie, June 07, 2023
Israeli Forces’ Systemic Denial of Fair Trial Rights to Palestinian Child Prisoners Amounts to Arbitrary Detention By Defense for Children Palestine, June 07, 2023
Israel to ‘Judaize’ Galilee and Expand West Bank Settlements? By Khaled Mouammar, June 06, 2023
Did U.S. House Speaker McCarthy’s Visit to Israel Doom the Debt Ceiling? By Renee Parsons, June 05, 2023
Arab Opinion Reflects Regional Changes By James J. Zogby, June 02, 2023
Growing Discontent in Iraq 20 Years After the US Invasion By Shane Quinn, June 02, 2023
Impending Catastrophe: A Billion Lives Hang in the Balance in Europe and the Middle East By Hans Stehling, June 01, 2023
Saudi Arabia Set to Join BRICS’ New Development Bank By Ahmed Adel, May 31, 2023
Russia Unofficially Supports Iran Going Nuclear? By Karsten Riise, May 30, 2023
Leaked Report: “CIA Does Not Know” If Israel Plans to Bomb Iran By Ken Klippenstein, May 25, 2023
Pentagon Keeping America Safe… Blowing Up Syrian Sheepherder, Father of Ten By Walt Zlotow, May 24, 2023
‘Palestine must be obliterated,’ Says Deleted Times of Israel Column By The New Arab, May 24, 2023
Thanks to Sanctions, the US Is Losing Its Grip on the Middle East By Ryan McMaken, May 24, 2023
Israel Pushes Law Banning Palestinian Flag By Middle East Eye, May 24, 2023
“There Is No Safe Place in Gaza”: Palestinians Speak Out During Israeli Assault By Prof. Marjorie Cohn, May 24, 2023
Grand Delusion – The Rise and Fall of American Ambitions in the Middle East By Jim Miles, May 23, 2023
The US Occupation of Syria That ‘Never Happened’ By Ian Sinclair, May 23, 2023
Palestinian Singer Mohammed Assaf’s Patriotic Song Removed from Spotify, Apple Music By The New Arab, May 23, 2023
Adding Indirect Deaths, Total Death Toll in the ‘War on Terror’ Is 4.5 Million By Bharat Dogra, May 23, 2023
“The US and UK are complicit with the Israeli apartheid and racist regime.” Interview with Sami, the Bedouin By Sami the Bedouin and Steven Sahiounie, May 23, 2023
While Pushing Ukraine Proxy War, Canada Struggled to Evacuate Citizens from Sudan By Steven Sahiounie, May 22, 2023
Jeddah Meeting Unites the Arab League with Damascus By Steven Sahiounie, May 22, 2023
A New Trajectory for the Region By Michael Jansen, May 19, 2023
The Occupation Is Destroying Israel’s Democracy Regardless of What Kind of Spin Is Put on It By Prof. Alon Ben-Meir, May 18, 2023
Is the United States Moving Its Capital to Jerusalem? By Philip Giraldi, May 16, 2023
Nakba: Britain and the Secret 1948 Palestine Memos By Rayhan Uddin, May 16, 2023
Biden Is Selling Weapons to the Majority of the World’s Autocracies By Stephen Semler, May 15, 2023
Anticlerical Rule Is on the Rise in Iran By Prof. Akbar E. Torbat, May 15, 2023
Biden Unilaterally Extends ‘National Emergency’ Targeting Syria By The Cradle, May 15, 2023
“Israel Is Built on the Ruins of Hundreds of Palestinian Villages” By Peoples Dispatch, May 15, 2023
Syria, Alas: Is There Reason for Optimism? By Barbara Nimri Aziz, May 12, 2023
Turkey-Syria Reconciliation “Would End the US Presence in the Region”. Interview with Aydin Sezer By Aydin Sezer and Steven Sahiounie, May 12, 2023
Blood and Treasure: United States Budgetary Costs and Human Costs of 20 Years of War in Iraq and Syria, 2003-2023 By Prof. Neta C. Crawford, May 12, 2023
One Year After the Killing of Shireen Abu Akleh, Canada Must Hold Israeli Officials Accountable By Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East, May 12, 2023
Time for Arabs to Come Together and Rethink Strategic Alliances By Michael Jansen, May 11, 2023
Bold Gambits on the West Asian Chessboard By Pepe Escobar, May 11, 2023
Sudan Talks Held in Saudi Arabia Reveals Underlying Crisis of Governance By Abayomi Azikiwe, May 11, 2023
Palestine Is Boiling and Will Not Cool Down By Steven Sahiounie, May 10, 2023
The US Silence on Israeli Nuclear Weapons and the Right-wing Israeli Government By Victor Gilinsky, May 10, 2023
Syria’s Return to Arab League Is a Big Deal By M. K. Bhadrakumar, May 10, 2023
Images of Massive US Embassy Compound in Lebanon Elicit Jeers and Questions By Middle East Eye, May 10, 2023
Canada Must Condemn Israel’s Assassination of Palestinians and Their Families in Gaza By Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East, May 10, 2023
Newly Released Images of Massive US Embassy Compound in Lebanon Prompt Questions By The New Arab, May 09, 2023
Syria Returns to Arab League with Saudi Arabia at the Helm By Steven Sahiounie, May 09, 2023
Arab League Readmits Syria as Relations with Assad Normalise By Middle East Eye, May 08, 2023
Ex-Iran Official Executed by Tehran Was Spy for MI6, Intel Officials Confirm By Middle East Monitor, May 08, 2023
75 Years of Nakba: A Stark Reminder of Israel’s Colonialism By Ben Jamal, May 08, 2023
The US and Israeli Role in Sudan’s Path to War By Giorgio Cafiero, May 08, 2023
Sudan: The New Geopolitical Battlefield Between East and West? By Matthew Ehret-Kump, May 05, 2023
Providing Syria with the Means to Reconstruct and Recover By Michael Jansen, May 04, 2023
Syria Takes Steady Steps on the Diplomatic Stage By Steven Sahiounie, May 04, 2023
Former Iraqi PM Named as Suspect in Soleimani Assassination By The Cradle, May 03, 2023
Twenty Years After George W. Bush’s Infamous ‘Mission Accomplished’ Claim By Norman Solomon, May 02, 2023
Ayatollah Abbas-Ali Soleimani: Random Attack or Attempt to Sow Discord? Geopolitical Upheaval By Gavin OReilly, May 02, 2023
U.S. Interventionism in Sudan: Clashes between Two Military Forces By Steven Sahiounie, May 01, 2023
Israel: An Occupying Power Cannot be a Beacon of Democracy By Prof. Alon Ben-Meir, May 01, 2023
Depleted Uranium – An Untold Story By Felicity Arbuthnot, May 01, 2023
WHO Says ‘Huge Biological Risk’ After Sudan Fighters Occupy Lab By Al-Jazeera, April 27, 2023
Sudan Crisis Risks Engulfing North Africa By Uriel Araujo, April 27, 2023
If the War in Yemen Stops, the US Will be the Loser: Interview with Hamid Rizk By Hamid Rizk and Steven Sahiounie, April 26, 2023
Syria Comes in From the Cold. Scott Ritter By Scott Ritter, April 26, 2023
“Freedom of Religion” and Other Lies By Philip Giraldi, April 25, 2023
Learning Nothing from the Iraq War By Bill Astore, April 25, 2023
‘Hezbollah has turned you into a sacrificial lamb,’ Israel Warns Syrian Government By The New Arab, April 25, 2023
Video: The Real Middle East Nuclear Threat. James Corbett By The Corbett Report, April 25, 2023
Is Biden Taking the World Closer to Nuclear Armageddon? By Don Hank, April 24, 2023
Lula Just Discredited Brazil’s Foreign Policy by Placing Conditions on His Visit to Russia By Andrew Korybko, April 24, 2023
9/11 Revelations – Is Washington Now Throwing Riyadh Under the Bus? By Gavin OReilly, April 24, 2023
Both Sides in the Middle East Region Now See ‘Big War’ as Possible By Alastair Crooke, April 24, 2023
How Tony Blair Sealed UK Relations with Egypt’s Dictatorship By Mark Curtis, April 24, 2023
The Winds of Change are Blowing through Damascus By Steven Sahiounie, April 23, 2023
U.S. Out of Africa: Voices from the Struggle By Essam Abdelrasul Bubaker Elkorghli and AFRICOM Watch Bulletin, April 21, 2023
Yemen in the Crosshairs By Khalid Al-Seragi, April 21, 2023