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.
US Supported “Rebels” Fired Live Rounds at Syrian Families in Rukban Concentration Camp By Syria News, September 25, 2019
The Only Way Israelis Can Form a Government: Betrayal By James J. Zogby, September 25, 2019
US-Iran Relations: Bolton’s “Maximum Pressure” Policy Is The Illegitimate Child Of Diplomacy By Bahman Fozouni, September 25, 2019
Why Patriot Missiles Are Useless By South Front, September 25, 2019
Why a War Against Iran Will be the “Nail in a Coffin” for U.S. Hegemony in the Middle East By Timothy Alexander Guzman, September 24, 2019
Syrian Army Prepares for Escalation in Golan Heights By South Front, September 24, 2019
Hot and Cold Tensions, What Iran and the US Offer Their Allies: Tehran’s Multiple Messages By Elijah J. Magnier, September 24, 2019
Russia’s Middle East Strategy: “Balance” vs. “Betrayal”? By Andrew Korybko, September 24, 2019
Full Spectrum Dominance: The US Demonizes “Invented Enemies” By Stephen Lendman, September 24, 2019
America Confronts Iran: History of US-Iran Relations and the Rule of Law By Courtenay Barnett, September 23, 2019
Has Russia “Stopped Israel” from Bombing Syria? Has Moscow Authorized Syria to Use the S-300 Air Defense System By Andrew Korybko, September 23, 2019
Media Disinformation and the Houthis By Kurt Nimmo, September 23, 2019
The U.S. Department of Terrorism By Kurt Nimmo, September 23, 2019
Canadian Media Attacks Labour Leader for Syria Solidarity By Dave McKee, September 23, 2019
The Deep State Is Dragging Trump into War with Iran By Robert Bridge, September 23, 2019
Was Iran Really Behind the Attack on Saudi Aramco Facilities? By Omar Ahmed, September 23, 2019
Rotten in Tunisia: The Corrupt Rule of Ben Ali By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, September 22, 2019
We Must Remain Skeptical of Any Attempts to Incite War with Iran By Keith Lamb, September 22, 2019
Video: Russia Gave Syria ‘Green Light’ to Use the S-300 Air Defense System By South Front, September 22, 2019
Iran — Neither Military Action nor Economic Sanctions By Dr. Chandra Muzaffar, September 22, 2019
The Attack on Saudi Arabia’s Oil Facility. The Patriot Air Defence System Failed. Why? By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, September 22, 2019
Video: Greater Idlib: Is Syrian Army Advance Inevitable? By South Front, September 20, 2019
Israelis Have Shown Netanyahu the Door. Can He Inflict More Damage before He Exits? By Jonathan Cook, September 20, 2019
Burning Amazonia, Denying Climate Change, Devastating Syria, Starving Yemen, Ignoring Kashmir By Prof. Richard Falk, September 20, 2019
Syria Expresses Its Freedom Through Resistance By Mark Taliano, September 20, 2019
Saudi Arabia up in Flames: Riyadh Is Headed for a Major Disaster By Federico Pieraccini, September 20, 2019
The Saudi Arabia Oil Refinery Bombing: The Latest False Flag By Robert Fantina, September 20, 2019
Israeli Elections: Rearranging Deck Chairs on the Titanic By Richard Silverstein, September 20, 2019
Will the Yemen War be the End of Saudi Arabia? By Tom Luongo, September 20, 2019
New Reports of ‘Saudi and Israeli Airstrikes’ on Syria-Iraq Border Only Heighten Concerns of Wider War By 21st Century Wire, September 20, 2019
Trump Reviewing Target Lists as Iran War Threat Mounts By Bill Van Auken, September 20, 2019
What the “War on Terror” Really Is, and How to Fight It By Marilyn Vogt-Downey, September 19, 2019
Trump Regime Anti-Iran Blame Game By Stephen Lendman, September 19, 2019
The Ansarullah’s Aramco Drone Strike versus “The Real Act of War” against Yemen By Andrew Korybko, September 19, 2019
Who Needs John Bolton? Trump’s Neocons Are Determined to Go to War Against Iran By Timothy Alexander Guzman, September 19, 2019
Disputing Trump Claims, Japan Says No Evidence Iran Was Behind Saudi Attack By Jake Johnson, September 19, 2019
Here Is How China-US Trade War Impacts Iran By Salman Rafi Sheikh, September 19, 2019
Saudis Show Off Charred Junk, Insist Iran Responsible for Aramco Attack. Will Trump Unleash the Dogs of War? By Kurt Nimmo, September 19, 2019
Will Americans Let Trump Start World War III for Saudi Arabia and Israel? By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies, September 19, 2019
Mohamed Bin Salman
Houthi Rebels Overturned the Middle East Geopolitical Chessboard By Pepe Escobar, September 19, 2019
U.S. and Russia Battle It Out over this Huge Iraqi Gas Field By Simon Watkins, September 18, 2019
Syria: Terrorist Attacks, More NATO Weapons and War Crimes By Miri Wood, September 18, 2019
Latest Astana Peace Process Summit Highlights U.S. and Israel’s Role in Prolonging Syrian Conflict By Sarah Abed, September 18, 2019
Turkey’s “Refugee City” Proposal for Syria Amounts to Demographic Engineering By Andrew Korybko, September 18, 2019
Video: US, Saudi Sources Claim Attack on Saudi Oil Was Launched from Iran By South Front, September 18, 2019
Will Trump Take Neocon Bait and Attack Iran over Saudi Strike? By Rep. Ron Paul, September 17, 2019
Iraq Cleric Moqtada Al-Sadr and Iran: A Long Love-Hate Relationship By Elijah J. Magnier, September 17, 2019
Trump Awaits Orders from Saudis; and Why the Houthis Could Have Done It By Prof. Juan Cole, September 17, 2019
Netanyahu Has Resisted Peace for 23 Years, but the Resistance Movement Is Getting Stronger By Steven Sahiounie, September 17, 2019
Iran
Trump Locked and Loaded Against Iran or Just Bluster? By Stephen Lendman, September 17, 2019
Russia-Saudi Relations: Putin’s S-400 Sales Pitch to Saudi Arabia By Andrew Korybko, September 17, 2019
Aramco IPO
Impact of Yemeni Attack on Saudi ARAMCO Oil Facilities By Peter Koenig and Press TV, September 17, 2019
Israel Spies and Spies and Spies By Philip Giraldi, September 17, 2019
Trump: Saudi Arabia’s Bitch By Kurt Nimmo, September 17, 2019
Sanders Warns Trump Against Illegal Iran Strike By Bryant Harris, September 17, 2019
US Supported Syria “Rebels” Fire Live Rounds at Syrian Families in Rukban Concentration Camp By Arabi Souri, September 16, 2019
The Barbarity of US-NATO, War Propaganda and the “Rule of International Law” By Mark Taliano, September 16, 2019
The Ansarullah’s Drone Strike against Saudi Arabia’s Oil Facilities Was a Classic “David vs. Goliath” Moment? By Andrew Korybko, September 16, 2019
Iranian Drones Launched from Iraq Carried Out Attacks on Saudi Oil Plants By David Hearst, September 16, 2019
Eighteen Years after 9/11, Has Al-Qaeda Won the War on Terrorism? By Peter Ford, September 16, 2019
“Drone Attack” on Saudi Oil – Who Benefits? By Tony Cartalucci, September 16, 2019
Trump Exploits Drone Attacks on Saudi Oil Facilities to Threaten War Against Iran By Peter Symonds, September 16, 2019
Oiling for War: The Houthi Attack on The world’s Largest Oil Processing Facility at Abqaiq in Saudi Arabia By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, September 16, 2019
The Adelsons May Have Cut Ties with Netanyahu More than a Year Ago–And No One Noticed By Marsha B. Cohen, September 16, 2019
US Military
Pre-election Stunt. Possible US-Israeli Defense Pact? Netanyahu Fighting for his Political Life By Stephen Lendman, September 15, 2019
Sen. Graham Wants to Bomb Iran in Response to Houthi Attack on Saudi Oil By Kurt Nimmo, September 15, 2019
US Sponsored War: Formidable Yemeni Houthi Fighters Strike Back By Stephen Lendman, September 15, 2019
Trump the Clueless: Israel is Not Spying on Me By Kurt Nimmo, September 15, 2019
Video: Imperial Wars of Aggression. Interview with Syrian Scientist Dr. Ayssar Midani By Ayssar Midani and Mark Taliano, September 14, 2019
Video: The Arabian Peninsula’s “New Cold War”. The UAE-Saudi Confrontation in Southern Yemen By South Front, September 13, 2019
Iran Trumps Trump By Michael Jansen, September 13, 2019
Is the War in Syria Over? Netanyahu Meets Putin By Stephen Lendman, September 13, 2019
Trump in Denial over Israeli Spying on the White House By Stephen Lendman, September 13, 2019
Joe Biden: New Level of Iraq War Lies. “Yes, I did oppose the war before it began.” By Sam Husseini, September 13, 2019
Schizoid Man: Trump Considers Throwing Money at Iran By Kurt Nimmo, September 13, 2019
Video: Russia Resumes Strikes on Terrorists in Idlib By South Front, September 13, 2019
Video: “Syria will Win this War for Nation-state Sovereignty, for Religious Pluralism, for Civilization” By Ayssar Midani and Mark Taliano, September 13, 2019
Hostile UN Commission of Inquiry on Syria. Totally Disregards US-NATO Crimes against Humanity By Stephen Lendman, September 12, 2019
Post-Bolton Thaw in US Relations with Iran? By Stephen Lendman, September 12, 2019
Afghanistan: 18 Years of US-NATO Occupation. The Decision to Invade Afghanistan was Taken on 9/12 By James Corbett, September 12, 2019