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.
Opposition Movement in Bahrain Demands Disbanding of US Naval Base, Withdrawal of All Foreign Troops By Peoples Dispatch, April 11, 2022
Remembering Operation Defensive Shield in Jenin, 20 Years Later By Jennifer Loewenstein, April 08, 2022
Data points to Increased Mortality of the Vaccinated: Canada and Israel Are Suffering from “A Pandemic of the Fully Vaccinated” By Arsenio Toledo, April 08, 2022
Israel Reaches Out to China, Again By M. K. Bhadrakumar, April 08, 2022
False Mantra.”This is what the Russians did in Syria” By Michael Jansen, April 07, 2022
Who are the War Criminals? Thirty-one Years Ago. The 1991 Gulf War: The Massacre of Withdrawing Soldiers on “The Highway of Death” By Joyce Chediac, April 07, 2022
Lebanon Faces Bankruptcy While Central Bank Head Evades Justice By Steven Sahiounie, April 06, 2022
Israeli Apartheid: It Is Time for the Canadian Government to Take Action By Jim Miles, April 04, 2022
An Inauspicious Start to Biden’s Democracies v. Autocracies Campaign By Jim Lobe, March 31, 2022
Russia, Ukraine and the Law of War. Crime of Aggression: Scott Ritter By Scott Ritter, March 31, 2022
Senators Urge US to Halt UN Probe into Alleged War Crimes During Gaza Bombing By Middle East Eye, March 30, 2022
What Did We Learn from Iraq War 2.0? By Peter Van Buren, March 30, 2022
New Batch of Ex-ISIS Members Transferred from Syria to Ukraine: Report By The Cradle, March 30, 2022
Turkey Will Not Impose Anti-Russia Sanctions Despite Offer to Re-enter F-35 Program By Paul Antonopoulos, March 30, 2022
UAE Energy Chief Reaffirms Commitment to Opec+ Alliance with Russia By Umar A Farooq, March 29, 2022
Zelensky Makes Surprise Address to Doha Forum Amid GCC Split Between Washington, Moscow By The Cradle, March 28, 2022
The ‘Ukrainian Resistance’ and the Houthis – A Contrast in Media Coverage By Gavin OReilly, March 28, 2022
Israel’s Policy on Ukrainian Refugees Reveals Its Odious Racism By Adnan Abu Amer, March 28, 2022
UN Special Rapporteur Accuses Israel of Apartheid in Human Rights Council Report By Zainab Iqbal, March 25, 2022
Spain Abandons Former Colony in the Western Sahara Endorsing Morocco Domination By Abayomi Azikiwe, March 25, 2022
Israel Should Not Continue to Enjoy Impunity By Michael Jansen, March 24, 2022
West Grieves for Ukraine While Afghanistan Starves By Black Alliance for Peace, March 24, 2022
Zelensky Tells Israel: “You can mediate — but not between good and evil” By Barak Ravid, March 24, 2022
Dear President Zelensky, Your Support for Israel Is a Disgrace By Prof. Asad Ghanem, March 24, 2022
As Outrage Grows Over Civilian Casualties in Ukraine, Media Ignores Suffering of Yemeni People By Andi Olluri, March 24, 2022
Zelensky Causes Outrage in Israel After Comparing Russia’s Military Operation to the Holocaust By Paul Antonopoulos, March 23, 2022
19 Years Ago, Invasion of Iraq: The War that Never Happened By Saif Ansari, March 23, 2022
How Israel Is Using Iraq’s Kurdistan as a Launchpad to Attack Iran By Richard Silverstein, March 23, 2022
With Biden’s Support, Saudi Arabia Escalates Its War of Aggression in Yemen By Daniel Larison, March 23, 2022
Yemen: The Largest Humanitarian Crisis that No One Discusses By Martin Armstrong, March 22, 2022
Iran: How to Circumvent Sanctions – Now and in the Future By Peter Koenig and Press TV, March 21, 2022
Israel’s Links to Ukraine’s Thriving Neo-Nazi Movement? By Robert Inlakesh, March 20, 2022
Iraq War Lesson: ‘Preventative Wars’ Are Illegal Wars, Period. By Daniel Larison, March 20, 2022
Erbil Strikes: Is Israel Illegally Operating in Iraqi Kurdistan? By Hedwig Kuijpers, March 20, 2022
Eleven Years Ago: US-NATO Invasion of Libya and Its Consequences By Shane Quinn, March 19, 2022
The March 2003 Invasion of Iraq: American Dauphin: Cognitive Dissonance in the White House Imperial Palace By Luciana Bohne, March 19, 2022
Tony Blair and the March 2003 Invasion of Iraq War: Should He Stand Trial for the Crime of Waging a “War of Aggression”? By Adeyinka Makinde, March 19, 2022
Dubious Trials: Saudi Arabia’s Latest Mass Execution By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, March 18, 2022
US Has Created Conflicts to Pressure Russia and China By Ararat Kostanian and Steven Sahiounie, March 17, 2022
Beijing-Riyadh Oil Sales Cooperation And the “De-dollarization Process” By Lucas Leiroz de Almeida, March 16, 2022
The West Doesn’t Care About the People It Kills By Donald Johnson, March 15, 2022
The Mass Execution in Saudi Underlines Britain’s Hypocritical Foreign Policy By Morning Star, March 15, 2022
While World Focuses on Plight of Ukraine’s Children, Endless Trauma of Gaza’s Children Should Not be Ignored By Michael Jansen, March 10, 2022
Ukraine: No Fly Zone? False Flag Operation? By Gavin OReilly, March 09, 2022
Terrorists from Syria Go to Ukraine to Fight Russia: Will Turkey Suffer? By Steven Sahiounie, March 09, 2022
Saudis, UAE Refuse to Take Biden’s Calls to Discuss Ukraine Situation, Talk to Putin Instead By Zero Hedge, March 09, 2022
Navigating Our Humanity: Ilan Pappé on the Four Lessons from Ukraine By Ilan Pappe, March 08, 2022
Video: More War… on Ukrainians, on Palestinians By If Americans Knew, March 08, 2022
Since 9-11 America’s Insane Foreign Policy — Continued Under Obama — Has Killed a Million and Created ISIS By Nicolas J. S. Davies, March 08, 2022
Russia Hits Back on “Sanctions from Hell” By M. K. Bhadrakumar, March 07, 2022
ISIS/Al Qaeda in the Middle East and Ukraine’s “Neo-Nazis”: Two Sides of the Imperial Coin By Mark Taliano, March 07, 2022
Iran Nuclear Deal: Forestalling Spillover of Ukraine War in Gulf By Nauman Sadiq, March 06, 2022
So, Are Putin and the Russians as Good as These Guys? You Decide. By L. Reichard White, March 06, 2022
Tears for Ukraine, Sanctions for Russia, Yawns for Yemen, Weapons for Saudis: The West’s Grotesque Double Standard By Ahmed AbdulKareem, March 04, 2022
Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine: Outing the Iraq War White Washers By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, March 03, 2022
U.S. Hypocrisy Concerning the Golan Heights By Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, March 01, 2022
Ukraine Makes Strange Bedfellows. “Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett Called Vladimir Putin Offering Mediation on Ukraine” By M. K. Bhadrakumar, March 01, 2022
My Day in Palestine: The Stunning Beauty and Cruel Reality of an Occupied Land By Miko Peled, March 01, 2022
Ukraine Crisis Raises Concern in Arab World Over Wheat Supplies By Middle East Monitor, February 28, 2022
Syrian UN Envoy Accuses US Occupation of Enabling Terror Groups and Controlling Food Supply By The Cradle, February 28, 2022
CKUW Fundrive 2022: A Commitment to Decolonizing Radio By Michael Welch, February 26, 2022
How Oman Became the Chief Architect of Arab Normalisation with Syria By Danny Makki, February 22, 2022
Israeli Convoy and Protest Against COVID Mandates Gets Evicted By David Heller, February 22, 2022
How Is Restoring Iran Nuclear Pact Vital for Global Energy Security? By Nauman Sadiq, February 21, 2022
Israel: “A Russian Speaking State” By Hans Stehling, February 20, 2022
The Saudi Led War against Yemen, Backed by the U.S. (2015- ) By Massoud Khodabandeh and Steven Sahiounie, February 20, 2022
Yemen: Using Famine As a Weapon Is Indefensible By Daniel Larison, February 18, 2022
ISIS Prison Break: False Flag by Kurds to Keep US Forces in Syria By Nauman Sadiq, February 16, 2022
Will the US Re-ignite a ‘Syrian Revolution’ to Punish Russia in Ukraine? By Abdel Bari Atwan, February 16, 2022
“How to Make Turkey Great Again”: The Twists and Turns of Erdogan’s Foreign Policy. By Pepe Escobar, February 15, 2022
Obtuseness on Iran By Jacob G. Hornberger, February 14, 2022
Turkish-Held Areas in Syria Become Asylum for ISIS By Armen Tigranakert, February 11, 2022
Video: Israel Bombs Syria Again By South Front, February 11, 2022
Institutionalised Discrimination: Amnesty International Report on Israel’s Treatment of Palestinians By Michael Jansen, February 10, 2022
There Was a Young Man from Daraa (Syria, 2011-…. ?) By Barbara Nimri Aziz, February 08, 2022
Regional Power Play and Killing of Bin Laden and ISIS Caliphs By Nauman Sadiq, February 08, 2022
Video: War in Northern Syria Is Gaining Momentum By South Front, February 08, 2022
Biden’s Strike in Idlib Proves It Is an ISIS Headquarters By Steven Sahiounie, February 07, 2022
How ISIS Leader was Betrayed by Rivals and Killed by US? By Nauman Sadiq, February 07, 2022
Israel Will not Support Washington against Russia and China: Israel Confirms its “Neutrality in the New Cold War” By Andrew Korybko, February 04, 2022