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.
Syria: The White Helmets Are Terrorist Auxiliaries By Mark Taliano and Basma Qaddour, May 19, 2019
Iran and Why It Would be Insane for America to Go to War There By Richard Galustian, May 19, 2019
Trump Regime “War of Words” on Iran By Stephen Lendman, May 19, 2019
Analysis: There Is Little Hope that Europe Will Stand in the Way of a US War with Iran By Sean Bell, May 19, 2019
Targeting Iran. Manufactured Scenarios to Justify Military Aggression By Dr. Chandra Muzaffar, May 19, 2019
America’s Most Pro-Israel Governor: Ron DeSantis Will Send More Florida Money to Israel By Philip Giraldi, May 19, 2019
The OPCW Chemical Watchdog: A US Imperial Tool. The CW Douma Incident in Syria By Stephen Lendman, May 19, 2019
Risk of Open Warfare? What Makes Iran Look Like an Immediate Threat By Paul R. Pillar, May 18, 2019
Video: Syrian Army Eliminated 45 Militants in Recent Clashes By South Front, May 18, 2019
Iraqi Parliament Poised to Evict US Troops By Jason Ditz, May 18, 2019
Trump – from China to Iran to Venezuela – Threats and Sanctions Everywhere – A Chronicle of Disorganized Chaos Foretold By Peter Koenig, May 17, 2019
Netanyahu’s Acts of Provocation and Destruction Including Violence against Civilians Constitute Both a War Crime and Terrorism By Hans Stehling, May 17, 2019
Top Ten Differences Between the Iraq War and Trump’s Proposed Iran War By Prof. Juan Cole, May 17, 2019
Israel Firm Meddled in Africa, Asia and Latin America Elections By Middle East Monitor, May 17, 2019
War and Peace: Bolton and Trump Tell a Confused Story About Possible Military Action against Iran By John Mecklin, May 17, 2019
Amnesty International’s “Kangaroo Report” on Human Rights in Syria By Rick Sterling, May 17, 2019
The Pompeo Bolton Tag Team from Hell By Renee Parsons, May 17, 2019
Iranian
Congress Wants to Steal $1.68 Billion from Iran By Kurt Nimmo, May 17, 2019
Video: Houthis Strike Key Saudi Oil Pipeline Amid Growing Concern over Nearing US-Iranian Armed Conflict By South Front, May 16, 2019
Undermining Trump-Bolton War Narrative, British General Says No Evidence of ‘Increased Threat’ from Iran By Jake Johnson, May 16, 2019
Marco Rubio: Salesman for Neocon Total War on Iran By Kurt Nimmo, May 16, 2019
Military and Opposition Forces Reach Agreement in Sudan While Tensions Persist By Abayomi Azikiwe, May 16, 2019
During Nakba Commemoration Protests: “Israeli Forces Wound 144 Palestinian Civilians, Including 49 Children, 4 Women and 1 Paramedic” By IMEMC, May 16, 2019
Video: Syria Al Qaeda Militants Lose More Territory after Failed Counter-attack By South Front, May 16, 2019
Target Iran! By Prof. Francis A. Boyle, May 16, 2019
Israel Was Forced on Palestinians . Trump Deal is a US Rubber Stamp of the Status Quo By Rima Najjar, May 15, 2019
Washington Pushes to Brink of War against Iran By Bill Van Auken, May 15, 2019
Ten Points on Palestine’s Nakba and ‘Israel’s’ Illegitimacy By Dr. Vacy Vlazna, May 15, 2019
‘Music of Dead, Bombed-out Buildings Must be Heard’ — Gaza Artists Hold Anti-Eurovision Concert in Building Destroyed by Israeli Attack By Ahmad Kabariti, May 15, 2019
Israel Driving Trump White House to Catastrophic War against Iran By Hans Stehling, May 15, 2019
Evidence that Douma ‘Chemical Attack’ Was Staged: OPCW’s Unpublished Engineers’ Report By Tim Hayward, May 15, 2019
Warnings of ‘Gulf of Tonkin 2.0’ as Trump Officials Blame Iran for Oil Tanker Attacks By Jake Johnson, May 15, 2019
White House Reviews US Military Plan for 120,000 Troops for Iran War By Jason Ditz, May 15, 2019
Leaked Document Pokes More Holes in Establishment Syria Narrative By Caitlin Johnstone, May 15, 2019
Modern Merchants of Death: Spyware and Human Rights By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, May 15, 2019
Further Evidence US Attacked Syria Based on False Flag By Tony Cartalucci, May 15, 2019
President Bolton Plans to Send 120,000 Troops to Middle East By Kurt Nimmo, May 15, 2019
Trump Intent on Erasing Palestine By Elson Concepción Pérez, May 14, 2019
Tel Aviv Is Afraid of “The Axis of Resistance” By Prof. Tim Anderson and The Syria Times, May 14, 2019
The Deal of the Century: Trump Team and Netanyahu Conspire to Sell out the Palestinians By Philip Giraldi, May 14, 2019
The Media’s Handling of Bolton’s Iran Threats, Recalls the Run-Up to the Iraq War By Ben Armbruster, May 14, 2019
We Take to the Streets of Tel Aviv to Demand an End to the Siege on Gaza By Gush Shalom, May 14, 2019
Maximum Pressure in the Strait of Hormuz: The US-Iran Standoff By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, May 14, 2019
Bomb Iran Halfway Back to the Stone Age By Eric Margolis, May 14, 2019
Pompeo Meeting EU Counterparts on Iran By Stephen Lendman, May 14, 2019
The CIA: Keepers of the Hit Lists. War Crimes as Policy By Douglas Valentine, May 13, 2019
Israel ‘Has Arrested over 50,000 Children Since 1967’ By The New Arab, May 13, 2019
International Criminal Court
Bolton Is Spinning Israeli ‘Intelligence’ to Push for War Against Iran By Gareth Porter, May 13, 2019
‘Conditions for Surrender’: Palestinian FM Slams Trump Peace Plan By The New Arab, May 13, 2019
Trump Is Being Set-up for War with Iran By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, May 13, 2019
Does the U.S. Have the Right to Impunity? By Raúl Capote, May 13, 2019
Is America Ready for John Bolton’s War with Iran? By Scott Ritter, May 13, 2019
Iran and the Fairy Tale Atomic Bomb By Kurt Nimmo, May 12, 2019
The Zionist Idea Has Never Been More Terrifying than It Is Today By Rima Najjar, May 11, 2019
Rockets Remind the World of the 12-Year Blockade of 1.8 Million Gazans By Hans Stehling, May 11, 2019
Deal of the Century Adds “New” to the Four Thousand Year Old Name “Palestine” By Miko Peled, May 11, 2019
Why the U.S. Labeled Iran’s Revolutionary Guards a Terrorist Organization By Prof. Ismael Hossein-Zadeh, May 10, 2019
Do EU Nations Side with the US over Iran on the JCPOA? By Stephen Lendman, May 10, 2019
Iran
The US and Iran Flex Their Muscles. The Iran Nuclear Deal (JCPOA) One Year after US Withdrawal By Elijah J. Magnier, May 10, 2019
Pandering to Israel Means War with Iran By Philip Giraldi, May 09, 2019
Waging War on Iran without Turkey? Is Turkey Sleeping with the Enemy? The Russia -Turkey -Iran “Triple Entente” By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, May 09, 2019
Pompeo in Baghdad to Pressure Iraq to Join Press Against Iran; Iraq Declines By Prof. Juan Cole, May 09, 2019
Video: Syrian Army Liberates Another Town in Northwestern Hama By South Front, May 09, 2019
When We Were the ‘Good Guys’: US Keeps Invoking World War II to Validate New Wars By Helen Buyniski, May 09, 2019
1,000 Israeli Soldiers to Arrive in Honduras to Train Troops, Police on Border Protection By Telesur, May 09, 2019
Bolton’s War. Escalating US Hostility against Iran. Seeking a Pretext for War By Paul R. Pillar, May 09, 2019
Iran to Even the Nuclear Score with the US By M. K. Bhadrakumar, May 08, 2019
Is the Iran Nuclear Deal Doomed? By Stephen Lendman, May 08, 2019
Syria Military Operation to Liberate Idlib Has Begun. Estimated 40,000 Terrorists in Idlib By Steven Sahiounie, May 08, 2019
Israel MK Calls for 1 Palestinian to be Killed for Each Rocket Fired By Middle East Monitor, May 08, 2019
Israel Damaged over 800 Gaza Homes in Three Days By PNN, May 08, 2019
Syria Testimonies: “The White Helmets Are More Dangerous than Any Terrorist” – Retired Schoolteacher, Mesyaf By Vanessa Beeley, May 08, 2019
Senior Trump Adviser Uses Fake Video to Defend Israel’s Attacks on Gaza By The New Arab, May 08, 2019
Iraqi Media: US Helicopters Drop Food & Medicine to ISIS in Anbar By Arabi Souri, May 08, 2019
Will the Trump Regime Attack Venezuela and Iran? By Stephen Lendman, May 08, 2019
Video: Multiple Casualties Reported Amid Clashes in Northwestern Hama By South Front, May 08, 2019
Syria Testimonies: A Mother’s Brave Testimony after Martyrdom of Her Son, Majed, 4th April 2019 By Vanessa Beeley, May 07, 2019
Named: The People Killed in Gaza and Israel this Weekend By Middle East Eye, May 07, 2019
Video: The Occupation of the American Mind. The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict By Roger Waters, May 07, 2019
Video: Turkey-led Forces Suffer Casualties in Failed Attack on Kurdish YPG Positions By South Front, May 07, 2019