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.
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
Made in Britain: How London Handpicks Iraqi Leaders By Kit Klarenberg, November 28, 2022
The Invasion of the Congo by Rwanda By International Women’s Network for Democracy and Peace, November 28, 2022
Unilateral Coercive Measures: UN Expert Calls for Lifting of Illegal Sanctions on Syria By Kevork Almasian, November 28, 2022
How Is It Possible that NATO Ally, Turkey, Is Firing Rockets and Conducting Air Strikes “Danger Close” to U.S Forces in Eastern Syria? By Matthew Bracken, November 28, 2022
“Operation Claw-Sword”: Erdogan’s Big New Game in Syria By Pepe Escobar, November 28, 2022
Time Running Out to Save the Kurds in Syria By Steven Sahiounie, November 28, 2022
Football Capitulates at Qatar By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, November 27, 2022
Poisons at the FIFA World Cup By Manlio Dinucci, November 26, 2022
US Defenseless to Protect Kurds Against Turkish Invasion in Syria By Steven Sahiounie, November 25, 2022
Lebanon Still Faces Multiple Crises By Michael Jansen, November 24, 2022
Iraq’s ‘Theft of the Century’: How $2.5bn in Public Money ‘Evaporated’ By Suadad al-Salhy, November 23, 2022
Jamal Khashoggi
Biden Administration Sticks to ‘Vague’ Wording on Saudi Ties After Immunity Decision By Middle East Eye, November 23, 2022
European Parliament Severs Ties with Iran Over Sanctions Against EU By The Cradle, November 23, 2022
Israeli Military Chief Tells US to Step Up Planning for Joint Attacks on Iran By Dave DeCamp, November 23, 2022
Qatar FIFA World Cup: Alcohol Ban Bad, Fuelling War in Syria Good? By Gavin OReilly, November 23, 2022
North-South Transit Corridor (NSTC): Alternative to Suez Canal, as Russia, India and Iran Ties Expand By Uriel Araujo, November 22, 2022
Armageddon in the Holy Land? Israel’s Nuclear Weapons Program, Mordechai Vanunu, and the Coming War on Iran By Timothy Alexander Guzman, November 21, 2022
Istanbul Terror Attack May Prompt Turkish Invasion and Deportations By Steven Sahiounie, November 20, 2022
Deadly Games: The Labour Casualties of Qatar’s FIFA World Cup By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, November 20, 2022
Israel’s Right Wing Religious Coalition Seeks to Annex West Bank Settlements By Ibrahim Husseini, November 18, 2022
US Expanding Its Military Presence in Syria By Free West Media, November 18, 2022
Saudi Arabia Signs $30 Billion Cooperation Agreement with South Korea By The Cradle, November 18, 2022
The “Informal Russia India Iran Troika” on Afghanistan By Andrew Korybko, November 18, 2022
Regime Change in Iran: Gulf of Oman False Flag, Following the 2019 Script? By Gavin OReilly, November 18, 2022
‘All we could do was watch’: Israeli Army Demolishes Six Family Homes in Occupied West Bank By Leila Warah, November 17, 2022
Russia Strategises with Iran for the Long Haul in Ukraine By M. K. Bhadrakumar, November 16, 2022
Israeli Nuclear Arsenal Condemned by World’s Governments in Overwhelming UN Vote By Sameena Rahman, November 16, 2022
“The US is a Paper Tiger where Saudi Arabia is concerned”: Interview with Ambassador Peter Ford By Peter Ford and Steven Sahiounie, November 16, 2022
‘ISIS Bride’ Returns to Canada, ISIS-ISIL, Daesh Terrorist Militia, Funded by U.S. Coalition By Ken Stone, November 14, 2022
The ‘Persian Spring’: Attempted Regime Change in Tehran. Sudden, Violent Nature of these Riots, Whose Behind Them? By Gavin OReilly, November 14, 2022
COP27 Deliberations Reaffirm Imperialist States as Main Obstacle to Ending Climate Change By Abayomi Azikiwe, November 14, 2022
A Snapshot of Shifting Israeli Propaganda and Myths Over the Years By John Gee, November 11, 2022
Is Turkey Changing Course in Idlib? By Steven Sahiounie, November 11, 2022
Prominent Arab Tribe Denounces US Occupation of Syria By The Cradle, November 10, 2022
Influence of Religious Zionism to Expand with Netanyahu’s Coming Far-right Coalition By Michael Jansen, November 10, 2022
Israel’s Violent Repression of Palestinian Human Rights Organizations: CJPME By Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East, November 09, 2022
Deeply Divided Arab League, Declaration Upholds Palestinian Rights, Clash with Israeli Election Outcome By Steven Sahiounie, November 09, 2022
Netanyahu Returns, but Israel’s Political and Military Landscape Has Changed By Abdel Bari Atwan, November 08, 2022