Middle East & North Africa

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.
Iraq is in the eye of the storm. Washington's "maximum pressure" campaign on Iran and Tehran's response put heavy pressure on the Iraqi government, a partner for both. The US expects Baghdad to resist Iran, and Iran expects Baghdad to resist the US. An almost impossible position.
“The End of the War in Syria Will Come as Part of the Agreement Between Iran and China,” Says Iranian Foreign Policy Analyst By Polina Aniftou and Steven Sahiounie, November 19, 2020
United States Imperialism Threatening War Against Iran During Contested Presidential Elections Struggle By Abayomi Azikiwe, November 19, 2020
War à la Mode: Will a Vindictive Trump Start a War with Iran or Will He Bring the Troops Home? By Philip Giraldi, November 19, 2020
Trump Bruited Strike on Iran Civilian Nuclear Facilities, Which May Kill as Many as Did Nuclear Bombing of Hiroshima By Prof. Juan Cole, November 18, 2020
Syrian Foreign Minister Muallem Was a Multipolar Visionary By Andrew Korybko, November 18, 2020
Video: Silent Retreat of Neo-Ottoman Forces from Syria By South Front, November 18, 2020
Israel’s Power Is Unlimited By Philip Giraldi, November 18, 2020
Russia’s Red Sea Base in Sudan Is a Recalibration of Its Intra-Ummah Balancing Act By Andrew Korybko, November 17, 2020
Arab American Attitudes Towards Their Heritage and the Middle East By James J. Zogby, November 17, 2020
Groups Critical of Israel to be Branded ‘Antisemitic’ Under Pompeo Plan: Report By Middle East Eye, November 16, 2020
Pakistani PM Khan Says He Is Under Pressure to Recognize Israel By Anadolu Agency, November 16, 2020
A Dedicated Obsession: Washington’s Continuing Iran Sanctions Regime By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, November 16, 2020
Libya May Lose Again: Agreements Aren’t Worth the Paper They’re Written On By J. Michael Springmann, November 15, 2020
Video: Joe Biden Was Firmly Behind The 2003 Iraq War. Extensive War Crimes By Worth the Price, November 13, 2020
Syria’s International Conference on Return of Refugees. A Strategic Balancing Act By Andrew Korybko, November 12, 2020
Systemic Racial Inequity: Discrimination, Dehumanization and Destruction By Prof. Ruel F. Pepa, November 11, 2020
U.S. Arms Manufacturers Are Profiting from Atrocities By Fernando C. Saldivar, November 10, 2020
Trump Planning ‘Flood of New Sanctions’ on Iran before Leaving Office: Report By The New Arab, November 10, 2020
Palestinian Feminist Leader Khitam Saafin Ordered to Six Months in Israeli Administrative Detention By Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, November 10, 2020
Is Normalization with Israel without a Resolution for Palestine Justifiable? By Askiah Adam, November 10, 2020
Lebanon Economy is Sinking and Pulling Syria Down with Them By Steven Sahiounie, November 09, 2020
Donald Trump in the Middle East: A Story of Big Winners and Bigger Losers By Oscar Rickett, November 09, 2020
Israel’s ‘Silent Transfer’ of Palestinians Out of Palestine By Ibrahim Husseini, November 09, 2020
A graffiti of Naji al-Ali's Handala on the West Bank separation wall
Israel Carries Out Largest West Bank Demolition Operation in a Decade By Ahmad Al-Bazz and Oren Ziv, November 06, 2020
From Balfour to the Nakba: The Settler-Colonial Experience of Palestine By Ilan Pappe, November 05, 2020
US Congress Tries to Restrict F-35 Sales to UAE for All the Wrong Reasons By Andrew Corbley, November 05, 2020
The Arab World and the US Elections. Who Will Succeed in Controlling the White House? By Khaled Iskef, November 05, 2020
Wild Conspiracy Theory? The Truth Behind the Biggest Threat to the ‘War on Terror’ Narrative By Cynthia Chung, November 04, 2020
Canadian Organizations: Maintain Support for Palestinian Self-Determination at UN By Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East, November 03, 2020
On Eve of 103rd Anniversary of Balfour Pledge, Palestinian Refugees Still Committed to Unyielding Right of Return By Palestinian Return Centre, November 03, 2020
Israel Wins U.S. Election By Philip Giraldi, November 03, 2020
Balkanization and Hybrid Warfare Against Sudan By Dr. Bischara A. Egal, November 02, 2020
No Letup in US War on Iran by Other Means Ahead By Stephen Lendman, November 02, 2020
Millions of Iranians at Risk as US Sanctions Choke Insulin Supplies By Rohollah Faghihi, November 02, 2020
Palestinians Sue Britain for 1917 Balfour Declaration By The New Arab, November 02, 2020
The Sudan-Israel “Peace Deal: Lots of Behind-the-Scenes Maneuvering By Andrew Korybko, October 30, 2020
New Report Exposes Secret US Drone Strikes in Yemen By Reprieve, October 29, 2020
Syrians Talk About Their Suffering Inside Turkish Prisons By Khaled Iskef, October 28, 2020
“Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS)” against Israel: Resolution of Defamation Lawsuit by CJPME By Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East, October 28, 2020
US versus Russia in Syria. “A Fake ‘Revolution’ Using Islamic Gangs” By Stephen Lendman, October 28, 2020
UK Renewal of Arms Sales to Saudi Arabia to Face Another Legal Challenge By Rayhan Uddin, October 28, 2020
The Museum of Islamic Arts Has Halted a Planned Sotheby’s Sale of Its Treasures After It Was Condemned by Israel’s President By Taylor Dafoe, October 28, 2020
Congress Will Say Anything About Syria These Days By Andrew Corbley, October 28, 2020
The June 2018 Arrest in Germany of Iranian Diplomat Assadollah Assadi. Violation of International Law? By Robert Fantina, October 27, 2020
Israel Chooses to Normalize Relations with Countries Which Have Directly Supported Terrorism By Paul Antonopoulos, October 27, 2020
‘Iraq War Diaries’ at Ten Years: Truth Is Treason By Rep. Ron Paul, October 27, 2020
Sudan “Normalizes” Relations with Israel? Trump “Arranged the Deal” By Stephen Lendman, October 26, 2020
Protests in Iraq: Corruption, Unemployment, Impoverishment By Stephen Lendman, October 26, 2020
Donald Trump, the Mr. Magoo of Geopolitics, Incites Warfare Between Egypt and Ethiopia By Prof. Juan Cole, October 26, 2020
The US Proposed a Partial Withdrawal and Ease in Sanctions, Damascus Rejected the Offer By Elijah J. Magnier, October 26, 2020
US-China Confrontation: The Hijacking of the United Nations Security Council Continues By Carla Stea, October 25, 2020
Electoral Interference, Are ‘The Proud Boys” Attempting to Scare Voters’? By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, October 23, 2020
The Elusive “October Surprise”. Iran Seeks to Confuse the United States? By Philip Giraldi, October 23, 2020
Syrian Refugees Have Become a Tool of Duplicitous Politics By Ahmad Salah, October 23, 2020
Sudan Bends to Trump’s Pressure to Normalize Relations with Israel By Steven Sahiounie, October 23, 2020
Video: Azerbaijan-Armenia War: Counter-offensive in the South and the “Iranian Factor” By South Front, October 22, 2020
Trump Regime Exerts Maximum Pressure on Iran: A Crime Against Humanity By Stephen Lendman, October 22, 2020
Yemen’s Never Ending War By Timothy Alexander Guzman, October 21, 2020
Iran Now Free to Buy and Sell Weapons Legally By Steven Sahiounie, October 21, 2020
Troops Coming Home from Afghanistan? Depends on Who You Ask. By Rep. Ron Paul, October 20, 2020
US Seeks to Prolong Terrorism in Syria, Not Defeat It By Tony Cartalucci, October 20, 2020
The Expiry of The Iranian Arms Embargo By Andrew Korybko, October 20, 2020
Where Are the Borders of the State of Israel? Why Do They Refuse to Demarcate Them? By Majdi Khaldi, October 19, 2020
Two Deep Mysteries of the 1973 Arab-Israeli War By Eric Margolis, October 19, 2020
This Is What Happens When Sunnis and Shiites Agree in Lebanon By Elijah J. Magnier, October 19, 2020
Iran Free to Buy and Sell Arms By Stephen Lendman, October 19, 2020
America Is Complicit, as Yemen Spirals toward Mass Starvation By Prof. Juan Cole, October 19, 2020
Will the Mediterranean Sea Save Lebanon from Drowning in Debt? By Steven Sahiounie, October 18, 2020
Yemen – Prisoner Swap and What May be Behind it By Peter Koenig and Press TV, October 16, 2020
Turkish and Israeli Weapons Fueling Conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh By Stephen Lendman, October 16, 2020
Israel Stops Granting Visas to UN Human Rights Employees By Joe Dyke, October 16, 2020
The U.S. of Arms: The Art of the Weapons Deal in the Age of Trump By William D. Hartung, October 15, 2020
The Palestinian Struggle Betrayed By Askiah Adam, October 14, 2020
Muammar Gaddafi’s Cousin to Sue Hillary Clinton for ‘Destroying Libya’ By Al-Masdar News, October 14, 2020
Syria’s Devastating Forest Fires By Andrew Korybko, October 14, 2020
All It Takes Is a Spark: Syrian Wildfires Turn Olive Trees into Ashes By Steven Sahiounie, October 14, 2020
The Undeniable Cruelty of Trump’s ‘Maximum Pressure’ on Iran By Tyler Cullis, October 13, 2020
Israeli Army Orders Closure of 3,000 Dunums of Land on Olive Harvest Season By Najib Farraj, October 13, 2020
The Campaign to “Kill” the BDS Movement Against Israel Extends Far and Wide By Caren Holmes, October 12, 2020
With Crushing Sanctions on 18 Iranian Banks, Is Trump Trying to Leave a War Behind for Biden? By Prof. Juan Cole, October 12, 2020