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.
Video: Kurdish Radicals Try to Burn Russian-Turkish Patrol By South Front, November 20, 2019
Video: Complex and Unstable Geopolitics in Syria. Further Escalation in Southern Idlib By South Front, November 19, 2019
Occupied Palestine: From BDS to ODS. The Project of a One Democratic State (ODS) By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, November 19, 2019
America’s Arms Sales Addiction: 50-Year History of U.S. Dominance of the Middle Eastern Arms Trade By William D. Hartung, November 19, 2019
UK Government Accused of Covering Up War Crimes in Iraq By Johanna Ross, November 19, 2019
Trump Regime Calls Illegal Israel Settlements Legal By Stephen Lendman, November 19, 2019
U.S. Continues to Draw Lines in Eastern Mediterranean By Paul Antonopoulos, November 19, 2019
Iran’s Protests Are Grassroots, Not Foreign-Driven, and that’s the Real Problem By Andrew Korybko, November 19, 2019
New Zealand Even Hand against Palestine: Jacinda Adern, that Tweet, and Gaza By Julie Webb-Pullman, November 19, 2019
NATO Terrorism in Syria and Other War Crimes: 15 Martyred in Al-Bab By Miri Wood, November 19, 2019
Uranium Exposure: Despite Rising Tide of Birth Defects, Fallujah Shuns Iraq Protests in Fear of Backlash By Alex McDonald, November 19, 2019
After Al-Baghdadi, Islamic State Is Being Headed by Shura Council By Nauman Sadiq, November 18, 2019
Washington Threatens Egypt with Sanctions Over Russian Su-35 Fighter Jet Purchase By Sarah Abed, November 18, 2019
Yemen: Letter from a Father Who Calls for Justice By Abraham AbdulKarim, November 18, 2019
Hasakah: Syrian Arab Army Deploys Over 200 Kms on Borders with Turkey By Arabi Souri, November 17, 2019
The Role of Russia’s Military Police in Syria. The Deal between Russia and Turkey? By Steven Sahiounie, November 17, 2019
Video: With Russia’s Support Syrian Army Kicks Off New Offensive in Southern Idlib By South Front, November 16, 2019
White Helmets
Karma: British “White Helmets” Co-Founder Dead in Turkey By Tony Cartalucci, November 15, 2019
Who Was the Founder of the White Helmets? Was He Killed by the Islamic State (ISIS-Daesh)? By Nauman Sadiq, November 15, 2019
War on Syria
Syria’s Opposing Parties By Mark Taliano and Tasnim News Agency, November 15, 2019
Encountering Peace – A Personal Note of an Israeli Peace Activist During the Gaza Rockets By Gershon Baskin, November 15, 2019
Western Terrorists Are Coming Home to Roost By Steven Sahiounie, November 14, 2019
Can the EU’s New Sanctions Against Turkey Force the Cyprus Issue to Finally be Resolved? By Paul Antonopoulos, November 14, 2019
This Olive Tree in Bethlehem Has Stood for 5,000 Years – and this Man Is Defending It By Shatha Hammad, November 13, 2019
Geopolitical Bombshell: Major New Oil Discovery in Iran By Stephen Lendman, November 13, 2019
US Is the Source of, Not “Solution” to Syrian War By Tony Cartalucci, November 12, 2019
After Sochi Summit, What Prospects for Africa-Russia Relations? By Kester Kenn Klomegah, November 12, 2019
Video: Massive US Military Convoy Consisting of 172 Vehicles Heads to Raqqa and Aleppo By Almasdar News, November 12, 2019
Video: Turkish-led Forces Resumed Advance in Northeastern Syria By South Front, November 12, 2019
Israel Is Silencing the Last Voices Trying to Stop Abuses Against Palestinians By Jonathan Cook, November 12, 2019
The US Sells Fake “Humanitarian” Warfare: “Responsibility to Protect” Syria (R2P) By Mark Taliano and Prof. Tim Anderson, November 12, 2019
Significant Progress Toward Political Settlement in Syria? By Stephen Lendman, November 12, 2019
Gaza Specialist Doctors Emigrate Due to Israel Siege By Middle East Monitor, November 11, 2019
US Congressional Panel Outlines Next Phase of Dirty War on Syria: Occupy Oil Fields and Block Reconstruction By Ben Norton, November 11, 2019
Pentagon Claims US Authority to Shoot Any Syrian Govt Official Who Tries to Take Control of Syrian Oil By Andrea Germanos, November 11, 2019
Lebanon and Iraq Protesters, the US, Israel and Saudi Arabia Are Fed Up with Iran By Elijah J. Magnier, November 11, 2019
Former British Ambassador to Syria: UK Complicit in Trump’s Syria Oil Grab By Peter Ford, November 11, 2019
Three Deep State Confessions on Syria By Brad Hoff, November 11, 2019
Syria, Oil, and the Exceptional, Indispensable Kleptocrats By Kurt Nimmo, November 10, 2019
Video: Russia Captured Advanced Israeli Interceptor Missile By South Front, November 10, 2019
Iraqi Protestors: They Demand Basic Services and an End to Corruption By Steven Sahiounie, November 10, 2019
Syria, War Propaganda and the “White Helmets” By Mark Taliano, November 10, 2019
Geneva Is Key to Syria’s Recovery By Steven Sahiounie, November 09, 2019
The War on Syria was Pre-Planned. ISIS Was Financed by the US and its Allies By Mark Taliano, November 09, 2019
Video: Russia Setting Up Military Bases Across Northeastern Syria. To Undermine US Mission to Appropriate Syria’s Oil? By South Front, November 09, 2019
Syria: Where Have All the “Professional” Journalists Gone? By Janice Kortkamp, November 08, 2019
Israel’s Supreme Court — Upholding “Targeted Assassinations” and Torture By Stephen Lendman, November 08, 2019
Syria: “U.S. Get Out!” By UNACpeace.org, November 08, 2019
Time Is Running Out to Salvage the Iran Nuclear Deal By Sarah Abed, November 08, 2019
Nuclear Outlaw Israel Slams Iran’s Legitimate Uranium Enrichment By Stephen Lendman, November 07, 2019
Protecting the Oil Fields: Syria Army Deployments on the Northeastern Borders with Turkey By Arabi Souri, November 07, 2019
US Constructing Two New Bases In Syria’s Oil-Rich Region: Report By Zero Hedge, November 07, 2019
Turkish Forces Loot Electric Power Transformers in Northeastern Syria By Arabi Souri, November 06, 2019
Over 100 Missiles against Syria: US, UK and France Committed an International War Crime Against Syria on 14 April 2018 By Eric Zuesse, November 06, 2019
Listen to the Lebanese People By James J. Zogby, November 06, 2019
The Dark Side of Our Drone Future By James Rogers, November 06, 2019
Syria: OPCW Whistleblowers Confirm What We Already Knew. The OPCW Suppressed Evidence Regarding alleged Chemical Weapons Attack By Tony Cartalucci, November 06, 2019
Iran Nuclear Deal and the Attack on Abqaiq Oil Facility By Nauman Sadiq, November 06, 2019
PLO Demands UK Apology for Balfour Declaration By Middle East Monitor, November 05, 2019
Malaysian PM Dr. Mahathir: No Country Can Impose Sanctions on Other Countries By Press TV, November 05, 2019
Our Kurdish Hero…the Terrorist? By Scott Ritter, November 05, 2019
“Robbing” Syria’s Oil to Thwart Syria’s Recovery By Salman Rafi Sheikh, November 05, 2019
Video: Syrian Army Prepares for Advance in Northern Lattakia By South Front, November 05, 2019
US Sponsored Chaos: Iraqi Security Foil a Terrorist Attack Against Baghdad Protesters By Arabi Souri, November 05, 2019
Syrian Army Defends Civilians from Sectarian Terrorist Threat in Northeast By Steven Sahiounie, November 05, 2019
We Are All Palestinians By Philip Giraldi, November 05, 2019
Islamic State (ISIS-Daesh) Exacts Revenge on Turkey for Selling Al-Baghdadi Out By Nauman Sadiq, November 04, 2019
Erdogan Terrorists on Terror Frenzy in Tal Abiad and Aleppo City By Arabi Souri, November 04, 2019
Walking Through Aleppo: “Why Did Your Government Do This”. I Don’t Want to Hear You Say, “I’m Sorry.” By Greta Berlin, November 04, 2019
Video: President Assad: “Trump is the Best American President … Because He is the Most Transparent” By DR Bachar al-Assad, November 04, 2019
US Blames Palestinians for Israeli State Terror Against Them By Stephen Lendman, November 04, 2019
Five Years On, Saudi Attacks on Yemen’s Farmers Are Pushing the Whole Country into Famine By Ahmed AbdulKareem, November 04, 2019
The Killing of Baghdadi: Syrians Recall Terrifying Night of US Raid By Mustafa Dahnon, November 04, 2019
The Missing Pieces of the Al-Baghdadi Execution Puzzle By Nauman Sadiq, November 04, 2019
How Does Controlling Syria’s Oil Serve Washington’s Strategic Objectives? By Nauman Sadiq, November 04, 2019
The Real US Mission in Syria By Stephen Lendman, November 03, 2019
Video: Syrian Oil and US Troop Withdrawal, Explained By South Front, November 03, 2019
President Assad of Syria Tells the Truth regarding ISIS-Al Baghdadi, for All Who Care to Listen By Mark Taliano, November 03, 2019
The White House Plan to Strangle Iran. Trump’s Flip Flop Foreign Policy By Philip Giraldi, November 03, 2019
Washington’s Belated Armenian Genocide Recognition Is Politically Motivated By Paul Antonopoulos, November 02, 2019