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.
Iranian Navy to carry out February War Games By Yan Liang, November 25, 2007
Afghanistan: Fatal Military Quagmire By Hamayon Rastgar, November 24, 2007
Meet the Lebanese Press: Eleventh hour politics and social malaise By Hicham Safieddine, November 23, 2007
Venezuela warns France and E.U. not to support the US against Iran By Isabelle Duerme, November 20, 2007
Weakening dollar: Venezuela and Iran vow “United Front” By Global Research, November 20, 2007
China deals blow to Western efforts to punish Iran By Global Research, November 19, 2007
Are we Going to Occupy Iran and Syria, Too? By Prof. Eric Alterman, November 18, 2007
Pentagon Cover Up: 15,000 or More US Deaths in Iraq War? By Mike Whitney, November 18, 2007
Iran: Apology needed now that IAEA has cleared Iran’s name By Global Research, November 18, 2007
Iraq, Afghan War Costs Are $1.6 Trillion By Global Research, November 13, 2007
NATO Expands South, Hindered by US-created Chaos By Nicola Nasser, November 10, 2007
Palestine: Peace and Democracy must go Hand in Hand By Ramzy Baroud, November 09, 2007
Iraq: Fewer Deaths Bring No Reassurance By Ali Al-Fadhily, November 09, 2007
Video: July 2006 War: Israel drops over a million cluster bombs on Lebanon By Global Research, November 09, 2007
Iraq: Millions Trapped in Their Own Country By Ahmed Ali, November 05, 2007
Kurdish Crisis Boxes In Neocons By Muriel Mirak-Weissbach, November 02, 2007
Ill-Equipped Soldiers Opt for “Search and Avoid” By Dahr Jamail, October 31, 2007
Video: U.S. to build military base in Lebanon By Global Research, October 31, 2007
New Cold War: Great Game for Supremacy in the New World Order? By Andrew Gavin Marshall, October 31, 2007
Eurasian Coalition Emerging By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya, October 29, 2007
Video: Palestinians systematically tortured in Israeli jails By Global Research, October 28, 2007
Bush the Liar Escalates War Threats Against Iran By Larry Everest, October 24, 2007
US militarism threatens to unleash regional conflagration By Bill Van Auken, October 24, 2007
Why Canadian Forces Should Immediately Withdraw From Afghanistan By Michael Skinner, October 22, 2007
Imperial Playground: Marching East of Iraq By Andrew Gavin Marshall, October 21, 2007
Cheney hand seen behind leaks of ‘misleading’ stories By Global Research, October 21, 2007
Video: Russia and Iran beginning new relation By Global Research, October 18, 2007
Eurasia Strikes Back: No War With Iran Likely By Srdja Trifkovic, October 18, 2007
Video: US to build an air base in northern Lebanon By Global Research, October 17, 2007
Outsourcing Torture By Chris Hedges, October 15, 2007
Private US military contractors move into Afghanistan By Global Research, October 15, 2007
The Division of Caspian Energy in Tehran By John C.K. Daly, October 14, 2007
The “Great Game” Enters the Mediterranean: Gas, Oil, War, and Geo-Politics By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya, October 14, 2007
Top Lebanese cleric criticizes U.S. vice president for hostility toward Iran By Global Research, October 13, 2007
The New World Order, Forged in the Gulf By Andrew Gavin Marshall, October 13, 2007
Why Burma is Not Iraq By Ramzy Baroud, October 12, 2007
Oil, Israel, and America: The Root Cause of the Crisis By Scott Ritter, October 10, 2007
Loosing in Afghanistan By Alberto Cruz, October 08, 2007
US Aid Dependency: The Road to Ruin for Lebanon By Hicham Safieddine, October 07, 2007
Israeli MK: “Whole areas of Iran will be wiped out & the Iranian people must suffer for voting for Ahmadinejad” By Global Research, October 07, 2007
Leading Americans Ask Military to Refuse to Attack Iran and Start a Global Catastrophe By Global Research, October 05, 2007
Imperial Playground: The Story of Iran in Recent History By Andrew Gavin Marshall, October 04, 2007
Blackwater kills civilians at will in Iraq By Global Research, October 01, 2007
Lebanon and Syria: The Politics of Assassination By Ramzy Baroud, October 01, 2007
Senior Bush Official: “I hate all Iranians.” By Simon Walters, October 01, 2007
Shifting Targets: The Administration’s plan for Iran By Seymour M. Hersh, October 01, 2007
US Politicians, Not Ahmadinejad, Have Blood on Their Hands By Charley Reese, October 01, 2007
Iraq Will Have to Wait: Get Ready for the War against Iran By Scott Ritter, September 30, 2007
UN General Assembly meets under shadow of US threats against Iran By Peter Symonds, September 30, 2007
Murder of Iraqi Journalists By Dirk Adriaensens, September 29, 2007
Video: EU and US Pursue Double standards over Israel nukes By Global Research, September 28, 2007
The Iran War is on the Front Burner By Muriel Mirak-Weissbach, September 28, 2007
Why did Israel attack Syria? By Jonathan Cook, September 27, 2007
Cheney Sounds Out Jordan, Egypt on U.S. Bombing of Iran By Prof. Marjorie Cohn, September 27, 2007
Iran to hold meetings with Venezuela & Bolivia after 62nd UN Annual General Assembly By Global Research, September 27, 2007
Full transcript of Ahmadinejad Speech at Columbia University By Global Research, September 25, 2007
Iranian University Chancellors Ask Bollinger 10 Questions By Global Research, September 25, 2007
Civilian Casualties in Afghanistan: No Coincidence By Prof. Ira Chernus, September 23, 2007
The Sino-Russian Alliance: Challenging America’s Ambitions in Eurasia By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya, September 23, 2007
Blackwater: Hired Guns, Above the Law By Jeremy Scahill, September 22, 2007
Palestine: The Advancing Ethnic Cleansing By Victoria Buch, September 22, 2007
Racism and War By Ramzy Baroud, September 22, 2007
Israel’s air raid on Syria: another threat to Iran By Peter Symonds, September 19, 2007
The starving of the Gaza inhabitants is a crime and a folly By Gush Shalom, September 19, 2007
From Occupied Afghanistan: Accounts of a Fact-Finding Mission By Mike Skinner and Hamayon Rag, September 18, 2007
VIDEO: Fox News: It’s Good for Wall Street to Bomb Iran? By Global Research, September 17, 2007
America’s “Long War”: The Legacy of the Iraq-Iran and Soviet-Afghan Wars By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya, September 16, 2007
Was Libya Framed for Lockerbie Bombing? By Global Research, September 15, 2007
Grand Theft Iraq By Felicity Arbuthnot, September 14, 2007
Israel carried out Bombing Raids on Syria By Global Research, September 14, 2007
Meet Gen. David Petraeus: His Militia Strategy Plunged Iraq Into a Civil War, And Now He’s Back for More By A. K.. Gupta, September 12, 2007
IAEA Head walks out on European Union in protest at Meeting By Global Research, September 12, 2007
Lebanon and the Planned US Airbase at Kleiaat By Franklin Lamb, September 11, 2007
The Premeditated Nature of the War on Lebanon: A Stage of the Broader Middle East Military Roadmap By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya, September 10, 2007
“Unrecognized” Palestinians By Stephen Lendman, September 09, 2007
Phase III of Bush’s War By Patrick J. Buchanan, September 08, 2007
Bedless in Basra. A Review of a Predictable Disaster By Felicity Arbuthnot, September 08, 2007
Bush administration to “ratchet up pressure” on Iran By Peter Symonds, September 06, 2007
Middle East Madness By Stephen Lendman, September 06, 2007
America’s Hegemonic Middle East Policy By Prof. Mohssen Massarrat, September 04, 2007