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.
Biden Urged to Force End to US-Backed Saudi Blockade After Chilling Report on Starving Yemeni Children By Jake Johnson, March 15, 2021
Israeli Attacks on Iranian Oil Tankers, US Strikes in Syria and Sanctions: The Legacy of a Failed Policy of Regime Change By Adeyinka Makinde, March 15, 2021
The U.S. Role in Plundering Syria’s Oil: Depriving the Syrians of the Wealth of Their Own Country. By Khaled Iskef, March 15, 2021
Video: Israel’s “Green Passport”, A True Medical Apartheid. Ilana Rachel Daniel By Ilana Rachel Daniel, March 15, 2021
Pope Stamp Showing ‘Greater Kurdistan’ Causes Uproar in Iraq, Iran, and Turkey By The New Arab, March 14, 2021
Fresh Focus on a Stale Peace Process for Syria By Steven Sahiounie, March 14, 2021
What Is in Store for Iraq and the Broader Middle East? By Amro Allan, March 14, 2021
Video: Reporters Without Borders Charges Prince Bin Salman and Accomplices with Crimes Against Humanity By Paul Coppin and Kristina Borjesson, March 14, 2021
Video: Volatile Battlefield in Yemen. Saudi Heavy Airstrikes By South Front, March 14, 2021
Syria Solidarity Movement Statement on the Tenth Anniversary of the War on Syria By Syria Solidarity Movement, March 14, 2021
Get Jabbed for COVID in Israel or “Face Unspecified Punitive Measures” By Stephen Lendman, March 14, 2021
Origins of the 2011 War on Syria. It Was a Conspiracy By Felicity Arbuthnot, March 13, 2021
The Lebanese Crisis Is Directed Against Syrian Reconstruction: Says Dr. Jamal Wakim By Dr. Jamal Wakim and Steven Sahiounie, March 13, 2021
The West-Iran Asymmetric Conflict: Will Iran be Bombed? By Jan Oberg, March 13, 2021
The Ides of March: Ten Years of Bloodshed in Syria By Michael Welch, Steven Sahiounie, Vanessa Beeley, and Gareth Porter, March 13, 2021
Israeli Violence in Arab Cities Reaches Intolerable Levels By Lucas Leiroz de Almeida, March 12, 2021
‘Do Not Refer to Palestine or Show a Map with Palestine as a Country’ — The CBC’s Orwellian Rules By Marion Kawas, March 12, 2021
Israel’s Arrest of Palestinian Children Picking Vegetables Sparks Outrage By Akram Al-Waara, March 12, 2021
Video: Renewed Saudi Air Strikes against Yemen. Houthi Drone Attacks on Saudi Airports By South Front, March 11, 2021
Video: US Aircraft Carrier Deploys in Mediterranean, Threatens Syria? By South Front, March 11, 2021
Lebanon’s Crises Ballooning as Politicians Bicker over Government Formation By Michael Jansen, March 11, 2021
“The Real Nuclear Danger”: What Is Israel Building at Its Dimona Nuclear Site? By Richard Silverstein, March 11, 2021
Iraq in the American Imagination Today By Barbara Nimri Aziz, March 11, 2021
Refusing to be Conscripted in the Israeli Military: “We Claim Responsibility for the Political Decisions of Our Young Son, and Our Decision Is — NO!” By Rima Najjar, March 10, 2021
US Increases Violence in Syria in Response to Attack in Iraq By Lucas Leiroz de Almeida, March 10, 2021
India Is Wrong to Blame Iran’s IRGC for Late January’s Attempted Terrorist Attack By Andrew Korybko, March 10, 2021
10 Years after Daraa: The Stalemate in Syria By Steven Sahiounie, March 10, 2021
The Pope-Sistani Riddle By Pepe Escobar, March 10, 2021
Israel’s ‘Green Passport’ Vaccination Program Has Created a ‘Medical Apartheid,’ Distraught Citizens Say By Celeste McGovern, March 10, 2021
Biden Iran Envoy Boasted of Depriving Civilians of Food, Driving Up Iranian Inequality in “Art of Sanctions” Manual By Max Blumenthal, March 09, 2021
Video: Has Damascus’ Time to Recapture Northern Syria Finally Arrived? By South Front, March 09, 2021
Is China Planning on Blocking US Sanctions Imposed on Iran? By Shahbazz Afzal, March 08, 2021
ICC Competent to Trial Crimes in Palestine: A Decisive Step? By Prof. Francois Dubuisson, March 08, 2021
Palestinians to Lose Only Airport in Jerusalem to Israeli Settlements By Taghreed Ali, March 08, 2021
The Pope in Iraq Between the Minaret and the Bells By Steven Sahiounie, March 07, 2021
Decolonizing Palestine: Hamas Between the Anti-colonial and the Post-colonial By Jim Miles, March 07, 2021
Video: Biden’s Quest to Middle East Domination? “Promises to Send More Troops to the Region” By South Front, March 06, 2021
Palestine: Blinken Blinks on Human Rights By M. K. Bhadrakumar, March 05, 2021
Continued Israeli Airstrikes on Syria Are Testing Moscow’s Patience, Jerusalem Would Do Well Not to Poke the Russian Bear By Scott Ritter, March 05, 2021
Why the Biden Administration Is Dead Wrong to Oppose International Criminal Court War Crimes Inquiry in Occupied Palestine: A Betrayal of the Rule of Law By Prof. Juan Cole, March 05, 2021
Death Rates Skyrocket in Israel Following Pfizer Experimental COVID “Vaccines” By Brian Shilhavy, March 04, 2021
The Bamiyan Buddhas: An Afghan Tale By Pepe Escobar, March 04, 2021
Trump & Biden’s Secret Bombing Wars By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies, March 04, 2021
The Khashoggi Affair: “There Is No Longer Any Political Legitimacy for Saudi MBS Crown Prince” By Steven Sahiounie, March 03, 2021
Washington’s Lopsided Bilateral Relationship with Israel By Philip Giraldi, March 03, 2021
‘Freedom Bracelet’ Tracking Device Launched as Alternative to Quarantine By Steve Watson, March 03, 2021
The A-symmetric West-Iran Conflict: Danger Ahead! By Jan Oberg, March 03, 2021
What Jordan’s Prince Hassan Fails to Recognize: Palestinian Struggle Is an Advance Guard of the Arab Liberation Movement By Rima Najjar, March 02, 2021
Joe Biden, Five Years Before Invasion, Said the Only Way of Disarming Iraq Is “Taking Saddam Down” By Ryan Grim, March 02, 2021
Joe Biden Championed the Iraq War. Will that Come Back to Haunt Him Now? By Mark Weisbrot, March 02, 2021
On British Colonialism, Antisemitism, and Palestinian Rights By Avi Shlaim, March 02, 2021
US-Saudi Relations: Joe Biden Is “Playing Hardball” with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) By Andrew Korybko, March 02, 2021
US Foreign Policy: “War Is Peace”. Plans to Partition Syria By Stephen Lendman, March 02, 2021
Video: Escalation in the Middle East Appears Imminent: The Axis of Resistance on the Offensive. Or Not? By South Front, March 02, 2021
Biden Bombs in Syria — Helping to Steal Its Oil but What Is There to Talk About? By Jan Oberg, March 02, 2021
Biden’s Syria Attack: An Actual Impeachable Offense By Rep. Ron Paul, March 02, 2021
Israeli Private Arms Export Is Too Terrible Even for Tel Aviv By Shir Hever, March 01, 2021
Why I Support an International Treaty to Ban Weaponized Drones and Drone Surveillance By Kathy Kelly, March 01, 2021
The US Airstrike on Syria: Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss, and the Boss before that By Scott Ritter, March 01, 2021
Biden’s Syria Strikes: A Perpetual Cycle of Endless War By Stephen Miles, March 01, 2021
Syria Airstrikes a Grave Violation of International Law, Expert Says By Shannon Roddel, February 28, 2021
Biden’s Reckless Syria Bombing Is Not the Diplomacy He Promised By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies, February 28, 2021
Biden’s Latest Strike on Syria. The S-300 No-Show. The Russia-Israel De Facto Alliance? By Andrew Korybko, February 26, 2021
Video: Two Truths and a Lie: US Patriot Missiles Leave Saudi Arabia for Syria By South Front, February 26, 2021
50,000+ Petition Delivered to Facebook. “Not to Include ‘Zionist’ in Is Hate Speech Policy” By Jewish Voice for Peace, February 25, 2021
Tensions Between US and Saudi Arabia on the Rise By Lucas Leiroz de Almeida, February 25, 2021
US Brings Israel into CENTCOM, The US Military’s Command in the Middle East By Yaakov Lappin, February 25, 2021
COVID-19: Israel Donates Vaccines to Countries that Moved Embassies to Jerusalem By Middle East Eye, February 24, 2021
Revealed: British Royals Met Tyrannical Middle East Monarchies over 200 Times Since Arab Spring Erupted 10 Years Ago By Phil Miller, February 24, 2021
Israel Imposes Gag Order on Probe into Oil Spill Dubbed “Most Serious Ecological Disaster” in Years By Zero Hedge, February 24, 2021
Video: The Fight in Yemen, The Houthis Are Pushing Towards Marib City By South Front, February 24, 2021
The Ascendency and Mainstay of Participatory Economic and Social Development By Dr. Yossef Ben-Meir, February 23, 2021
Video: Turkey’s Eternal Crusade on the Kurdistan PKK Continues By South Front, February 23, 2021
What to Do About Israel? By Philip Giraldi, February 23, 2021
Could Israel Invade the Hague? By Asa Winstanley, February 23, 2021
Report of Illegal $80 Million Arms Transfer by Erik Prince to Libyan Warlord Raises Question of Who’s Backing Former Blackwater CEO By Brett Wilkins, February 22, 2021
Arms Sales to Saudi Arabia: Which Countries Are Still Exporting? By Rayhan Uddin, February 22, 2021
Libya: When Historical Memory is Erased By Manlio Dinucci, February 20, 2021
The Greater Danger of Israeli Provocations in Syria By Brian Berletic, February 19, 2021
Syria Resurrects Proposed Pipeline for Iranian Gas to Reach European Markets By Paul Antonopoulos, February 19, 2021