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.
US/Saudi Relations Remain Unchanged. Jamal Khashoggi’s Abduction and likely Murder By Stephen Lendman, October 13, 2018
Khashoggi
The Killing of Saudi Journalist Khashoggi Could Spell the End for Mohammad bin Salman? By Federico Pieraccini, October 13, 2018
Canada
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt. The “War on Terror” is a Fraud By Mark Taliano, October 13, 2018
Video: ISIS Seizes Toxic Agents Intended to be Used for Provocations in Idlib By South Front, October 12, 2018
Mohamed Bin Salman
Mohammed Bin Salman: The Character Behind the Caricatures By Andrew Korybko, October 12, 2018
Gaza Strip: Attacks in the Border Areas and Their Consequences, The “Buffer Zones” By Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, October 12, 2018
Netanyahu
Netanyahu Is Destroying Both Israel and the Palestinians By Prof. Alon Ben-Meir, October 12, 2018
Jamal Khashoggi
Missing Saudi Journalist Jamal Khashoggi Rejiggers the Middle East By James M. Dorsey, October 12, 2018
Trump Has Put America on Path to War with Iran While Nobody Is Paying Attention By Ben Armbruster, October 12, 2018
Kuwait Stops Exporting Crude to the U.S. By Irina Slav, October 11, 2018
Iranian
Neoliberal Economics: The Plague of Iran’s Economy  By Prof. Ismael Hossein-Zadeh, October 11, 2018
Nikki Haley
Israel’s Plans for Nikki Haley to be the 46th President of the United States? By Hans Stehling, October 11, 2018
Video: Kurdish YPG Cells Attack Turkish-backed Forces in Afrin, Northern Syria By South Front, October 11, 2018
Sergev Lavrov
President Assad’s Amnesty Decree to Military Deserters By Andrew Korybko, October 10, 2018
Effective Practices to Sustain Development in Morocco By Kerstin Opfer, October 10, 2018
UK Arms Sales to Saudi Arabia: UK Should Not be Arming Regimes That Target Journalists By Andrew Smith, October 10, 2018
UN: Over 700 Israel Obstacles to Palestinian Movement in West Bank By Middle East Monitor, October 10, 2018
NDP Members Must Push for Pro-Palestinian Positions By Yves Engler, October 10, 2018
Did the Saudis Kidnap and Murder Journalist Jamal Khashoggi? By Stephen Lendman, October 09, 2018
Trump Admin Follows Corporate Media Playbook for War with Iran By John C. O’Day, October 09, 2018
Benjamin Netanyahu Is No Friend to America By Scott Ritter, October 09, 2018
Video: Clashes Between Militant Groups Ongoing in Western Aleppo By South Front, October 09, 2018
Iran
Video: Iran’s World Court Win Exposes U.S. as Rogue State By The Real News Network, October 09, 2018
Fun at the United Nations and in Congress: Israel Wins the Comedy Competition By Philip Giraldi, October 08, 2018
Criticism of Israeli Policy Is Not Anti-Semitic By James J. Zogby, October 08, 2018
Israel to Use F-35 Stealth Warplanes Against Syria By Stephen Lendman, October 07, 2018
S-400
Russia’s S-400 Air Defense System: Turkey Fell Victim But India Escaped US Sanctions? By Sami Karimi, October 06, 2018
S-300
Syria’s No-fly Zone By Askiah Adam, October 06, 2018
Netanyahu Wants to Abolish the UNRWA: Jerusalem Municipality to Remove UN Agency for Palestinians From City By Middle East Eye, October 06, 2018
Yves Engler
Left, Right — Marching to the Beat of Imperial Canada: A Conversation with Yves Engler By Michael Welch and Yves Engler, October 06, 2018
Assad
Syrian Voices: Exploding the Lies For Truth and Peace By Mark Taliano, October 06, 2018
Trump’s March to War with Iran By Joe Cirincione, October 05, 2018
Netanyahu Bans Publication of Archive Materials on Deir Yassin Massacre By Palestine News Network, October 05, 2018
Pompeo
Illegal Sanctions: Pompeo Arranges Mass Starvation of Iranian People By Kurt Nimmo, October 05, 2018
Trump
Trump Regime Refuses World Court Rulings on Palestine and Iran, US Withdrawal from the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations By Stephen Lendman, October 04, 2018
World Court Rules on the Illegality of US Sanctions against Iran By Stephen Lendman, October 04, 2018
Russia’s S-300 Air Defense Systems Arrive in Syria By Stephen Lendman, October 04, 2018
Washington Threatens Preemptive Strike Against Russian Missiles By Bill Van Auken, October 04, 2018
Demolition and Displacement in the Occupied Palestinian Territories By daphnabaram, October 04, 2018
Best Government Money Can Buy By Philip Giraldi, October 04, 2018
Turkey to Use National Currency For Wheat Imports From Russia By Daily Sabah, October 04, 2018
Palestinians
US Withdraws From International Treaties, Slams UN World Court By Jason Ditz, October 04, 2018
Anthrax Attacks
Anthrax False Flag Redux? By Kurt Nimmo, October 03, 2018
Video: Iran Carries Out Missile, Drone Strikes on ISIS in Euphrates Valley By South Front, October 03, 2018
Forget Trump’s Tough Talk, He’s Not Going to Let the House of Saud Fall By Andrew Korybko, October 03, 2018
Netanyahu’s “Nowhere Land” Blunder. Accused Iran of Having a “Secret Atomic Warehouse” By Daniel Larison, October 03, 2018
Syrian women
Syrians Matter: They have Chosen NOT to be Occupied by the West’s Al Qaeda Terrorists By Mark Taliano, October 03, 2018
“U.S. Out of Africa!”: Black Alliance for Peace Calls on U.S. Government to Shut Down U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) By Black Alliance for Peace, October 03, 2018
US “Investigates” Genocide in Myanmar, Commits Genocide in Yemen By Joseph Thomas, October 03, 2018
Israeli Settlers Flood Khan al-Ahmar with Wastewater By Maan News Agency, October 03, 2018
Iran’s Alleged “Secret Nuclear Facility” in Lebanon, according to Netanyahu By Elijah J. Magnier, October 03, 2018
17 Years of Getting Afghanistan Completely Wrong By David Swanson, October 03, 2018
Syria and the S-300s: Re-Centering the People in the Global Struggles for Power By Ajamu Baraka, October 03, 2018
Ahvaz
Who Was Behind The Terror Attack in Ahvaz, Iran’s Khuzestan Province? By Andrew Korybko, October 02, 2018
False Claims About Russia Mass-Killing Civilians in Syria By Stephen Lendman, October 02, 2018
Limiting Israel: Russia Deploys the S-300 Anti-Aircraft Missile System to Syria By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, October 02, 2018
Nuclear war
One Click Closer to Nuclear Annihilation By Philip Giraldi, October 02, 2018
Palestine
Palestine: The Biggest Prison on Earth – A History of the Occupied Territories By Jim Miles, October 02, 2018
Iraq: A Ticking Time Bomb for Oil Markets By Dr. Cyril Widdershoven, October 02, 2018
Israeli Home Demolition Terrorism Targets Khan al-Ahmar Village By Stephen Lendman, October 02, 2018
Palestine-Israel and Trump’s Two-State Solution: News That Was No News By James J. Zogby, October 02, 2018
The US Has Delisted Anti-Iranian MEK Terrorists Still Openly Committed to Violence By Tony Cartalucci, October 02, 2018
Video: Israel-Iran Conflict Escalates Further as Netanyahu Comes with New Accusations Against Tehran By South Front, October 02, 2018
Gaza
Everyone Washes Their Hands as Gaza’s Economy Goes into Freefall By Jonathan Cook, October 02, 2018
Iraq Will Have a President and Prime Minister Who Take Account of Both Iranian and US Interests By Elijah J. Magnier, October 01, 2018
US Military Plans Thwarted, Washington’s “Strategy of Isolation” in Syria: Assad Government Now to be Made ‘as Miserable as Possible’ with Sanctions By Paul Antonopoulos, October 01, 2018
Food, Art and Literature: How Israel Is Stealing Arab Culture By Prof. Nada Elia, October 01, 2018
Now Biggest Donor in All of US Politics, Sheldon Adelson Brings an Israel First Agenda to Washington By Whitney Webb, October 01, 2018
US Hostility to Sovereign Independent States: Syria and North Korea Address the UN General Assembly By Stephen Lendman, October 01, 2018
Palestine
The Other Side of the Wall. An Eyewitness Account of the Occupation of Palestine By Dr. Ludwig Watzal, October 01, 2018
Russian air force
The US Military-Industrial Complex’s Worst Nightmare: The Deployment of Russia’s S-300 Air Defense System In Syria May Destroy and Expose the F-35 By Federico Pieraccini, October 01, 2018
Trump’s Middle East Policy Takes a Kicking at UN Assembly By James Reinl, October 01, 2018
Both the UK and the US Now Overtly Honor Al Qaeda By Eric Zuesse, September 30, 2018
Libya
Bombing Libya: The Origins of Europe’s Immigration Crisis By William Blum, September 30, 2018
Occupation, Bound for Conflict: US Builds New Military Base on Syrian-Iraq Border By Joaquin Flores, September 30, 2018
Washington’s Farcical “Certifications” Enable the War Crimes of Allies By Ted Galen Carpenter, September 30, 2018
Israel: The Nuclear Hegemon That Poses a Potential Threat to Europe By Hans Stehling, September 30, 2018
The Palestinian People’s Principal Problem Is Their Own Leadership. Mahmoud Abbas’ Address to the UN General Assembly By Abdel Bari Atwan, September 30, 2018
Russia and the Taming of the Israelis By Israel Shamir, September 30, 2018
Oil Market Shocked as China’s Top Refiner Halves Iranian Oil Imports By Tsvetana Paraskova, September 30, 2018