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.
Was There Ever an Iranian Nuclear Weapons Program? By Gareth Porter, June 28, 2019
Iran Has Warned to Target Arab Countries in Case of War: The US “Like a Lion in a Persian Story” By Elijah J. Magnier, June 28, 2019
Monsters Walk the Earth. Why These Three Countries Are the Real Troika of Evil By Philip Giraldi, June 28, 2019
Children “Too Frail to Even Cry”: The War in Yemen and Its Bounty of Suffering By George Capaccio, June 28, 2019
Video: US-backed Forces Came with “List of Demands” to Damascus By South Front, June 28, 2019
Waking Up to Empire and “False Flags” By Barry Kissin, June 27, 2019
The US-Iran Tension: The US May Never Attack Iran? The Fear of Retaliation By Prof. Engr. Zamir Ahmed Awan, June 27, 2019
“They Decided to Kill Him”: Egyptian Officials Threatened Morsi Days Before Death By David Hearst, June 27, 2019
Iran and Tajikistan – Towards Pragmatic Relations? By Omid Rahimi, June 27, 2019
US War of Words on Iran Heads Toward Turning Hot By Stephen Lendman, June 27, 2019
Hawks Behind Trump’s Back By Steven Sahiounie, June 27, 2019
Bipartisan Congressional Effort to Prevent War on Iran? By Stephen Lendman, June 26, 2019
Childish Diplomacy: Donald Trump’s New Play Against Iran By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, June 26, 2019
The Shameful “Deal of the Century”. By Dr. Elias Akleh, June 26, 2019
Arms Dealers and Lobbyists Get Rich as Yemen Burns By Barbara Boland, June 26, 2019
Trump Announces Sanctions on Ayatollah Khomeini, Who Died in 1989 By Middle East Monitor, June 26, 2019
Falling Oil Profits Drive U.S. War Threats Against Iran? By Bill Dores, June 26, 2019
Egypt’s Former President Morsi Died, or Was Murdered, While Reciting a Patriotic Poem in a Cage By Andre Vltchek, June 26, 2019
Trump Imposes New Sanctions Amid Continuing War Threat Against Iran By Bill Van Auken, June 26, 2019
“Overwhelming Will Mean Obliteration”, according to Trump: A World Gone Mad, A Demented Head of State, Total Destruction of Iran is Contemplated? By Hans Stehling, June 26, 2019
Russia-Israel-US National Security Chiefs Meet Behind Closed Doors in Jerusalem: Moscow Seeks Iran-Israel “Compromise” By Maxim A. Suchkov and Marianna Belenkaya, June 26, 2019
Trump Rejected Attacking Iran: ‘We Don’t Need Any More Wars’ By Jason Ditz, June 26, 2019
Sanctions against Palestinians Are the Secret to Clinching the “Deal of the Century” By Andrew Korybko, June 26, 2019
John Bolton’s Blueprint for War on Iran By Stephen Lendman, June 26, 2019
In Israel the Push to Destroy Jerusalem’s Iconic Al-Aqsa Mosque Goes Mainstream By Whitney Webb, June 26, 2019
Will the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) Extend into the Middle East? By Andrew Korybko, June 25, 2019
U.S. Rejectionist Policy Toward Palestinian Participation, Rights By Rima Najjar, June 25, 2019
Iran
Video: Trump Stopped Strike on Iran, but Tensions Continued to Grow By South Front, June 25, 2019
How to Start an Unnecessary War: Targeting Iran Started Before 2016 By Philip Giraldi, June 25, 2019
Iran Barred from Closed UN Security Council Session Pertaining the US Threats against Iran By Stephen Lendman, June 25, 2019
How Iran Decided to Down a US Drone and Narrowly Averted War by Sparing Another US Plane By Elijah J. Magnier, June 25, 2019
Revealed: UK Approved £14m in Arms Sales to Israel During Gaza Protests By Dania Akkad, June 25, 2019
Most Democratic Candidates Still Afraid to Criticise Israel’s Violations of Palestinian Rights By James J. Zogby, June 25, 2019
Behind the Syrian Network for Human Rights: How an Opposition Front Group Became Western Media’s Go-to monitor By Max Blumenthal, June 25, 2019
Trump “Rethinks”, Abruptly Calls Off Military Strike: US Credibility Dented in Iran Standoff. The Danger of Escalation Remains By M. K. Bhadrakumar, June 24, 2019
Memo to the President: Is Pompeo’s Iran Agenda the Same as Yours? By Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity, June 24, 2019
Bolton Is in Israel Conferring with Netanyahu How to Provoke US Attack on Iran By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, June 24, 2019
As Conflict with Iran Escalates, Path to Peace Can be Found By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, June 24, 2019
Iran and the Dangers of Nuclear War. The Risk of a US Preemptive War By Stephen Lendman, June 24, 2019
Secret US-Russia-Israel National Security Summit in Jerusalem: What is the Hidden Agenda? By Andrew Korybko, June 24, 2019
Be Thankful for Trump’s Iran Indecision… For Now By Kurt Nimmo, June 23, 2019
Trump Has a $259 Million Reason to Bomb Iran By Eli Clifton, June 23, 2019
Provoking Iran Could Start a War and Crash the World Economy By Federico Pieraccini, June 23, 2019
War Propaganda and the US-NATO “War of Terror” Against Syria and Its People By Mark Taliano, June 23, 2019
Germany vs. Iran – Has Germany Sold Out to the Devil? By Peter Koenig, June 23, 2019
Trump Told Iran of Imminent Attack, Then Offered Talks By Jason Ditz, June 23, 2019
Iran Had the Legal Right to Shoot Down US Spy Drone By Prof. Marjorie Cohn, June 23, 2019
Aleppo: Where Hospitals Were Turned into Sharia Gaols By Gail Malone, June 23, 2019
Crazed US Government: As We Face “Armageddon” the Western World Is Leaderless By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, June 23, 2019
Ongoing Genocide and the Plight of Indigenous Peoples in Canada and Internationally By Michael Welch and John Schertow, June 23, 2019
How Close Was the Trump Regime to Waging War on Iran? By Stephen Lendman, June 22, 2019
Video: The US Has Threatened Several Times to Stage an Attack and Blame It on Iran By The Corbett Report, June 22, 2019
Has India Abandoned Palestine? By Askiah Adam, June 22, 2019
Britain and Oman: Will Their Growing Special Relationship Survive Succession? By Mark Curtis, June 22, 2019
Back from Iran War Brink: Trump Wants to Walk Back Iran Crisis that He Created with Severe US Sanctions By Prof. Juan Cole, June 22, 2019
Shift in Military Alliances: America Declares War on Turkey? #NATOExit? By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, June 21, 2019
Trump Threatens to Attack Iran, Then Pulls Back By Stephen Lendman, June 21, 2019
Bias, Lies and Videotape: Doubts Dog ‘Confirmed’ Syria Chemical Attacks By Scott Ritter, June 21, 2019
Iran and US Officials Attend a Russian Security Forum but Nobody Is Talking About It By Federico Pieraccini, June 21, 2019
US Exceptionalism: Exploiting Certain Syrians, Ignoring Others By Eva Bartlett, June 21, 2019
Video: Gulf Conflict: Iran Shot Down US Global Hawk. Houthis Struck Saudi Power Plant with Cruise Missile By South Front, June 21, 2019
Iran Goes for “Maximum Counter-pressure”. Is Closing the Strait of Hormuz an Option? By Pepe Escobar, June 21, 2019
America’s New Strategic Ally: India’s Naval Deployment to the Persian Gulf. Directed against Iran? By Andrew Korybko, June 21, 2019
The USS Liberty Revisited By Elias Davidsson, June 20, 2019
Video: ISIS Command and Control Center Raided by Syrian Forces By Arabi Souri, June 20, 2019
Sanctions Are “Genocidal”, and They Are America’s “Favorite Weapon” By Justin Podur, June 20, 2019
Media Black-Out on Arab Journalists and Civilians Beheaded in Syria by Western-Backed Mercenaries By Eva Bartlett, June 20, 2019
UK Court of Appeal Finds Government Broke Law over Saudi Arabia Arms Sales By CAAT - Campaign Against Arms Trade, June 20, 2019
Forget Trump’s ‘Deal of the Century’. Israel Was Always on Course to Annexation By Jonathan Cook, June 20, 2019
Daesh-like “Scorched Earth” Terror Policy Sets Syrian and Iraqi Agricultural Land Ablaze. By Sarah Abed, June 20, 2019
Iran Downs Hostile US Spy Drone in Its Airspace By Stephen Lendman, June 20, 2019
Trump Against War on Iran? By Stephen Lendman, June 20, 2019
Egypt’s El-Sisi Regime Let Mohamed Morsi Die from Medical Neglect By Stephen Lendman, June 20, 2019
Video: New Al Qaeda Militant Attack in Hama Ends in Disaster By South Front, June 20, 2019
America’s War against Iran: The Insidious Role of the Mojahedin-e-Khalq (MEK) Terrorist Entity By Robert Fantina, June 19, 2019
Idlib and the War of Terror Against the Syrian People. Ambassador Jaafari’s Statement at UN Security Council By Dr. Bachar al-Jaafari, June 19, 2019
Overthrown in a 2013 Military Coup, The Passing of Egypt’s Mohamed Morsi: Man vs. Myth By Andrew Korybko, June 19, 2019
In Defence of Jeremy Corbyn’s Brave and Lonely Stand on Calls for War Against Iran By Peter Oborne, June 19, 2019
Video: Tanker War in Persian Gulf and US-Iranian Conflict By South Front, June 19, 2019
The War of Oil Tankers By Dr. Elias Akleh, June 19, 2019