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.
Israel-Russia Relations and the Downing of Russian Aircraft over Syria By Andrew Korybko, September 18, 2018
Media Ignores Israeli Role in Downing of Russian Aircraft in Syria By Kurt Nimmo, September 18, 2018
Iran
Iran Hawks in Washington By Peter Koenig, September 18, 2018
Palestinians Take #GazaToUN Through Social Media By Afro-Palestine Newswire Service, September 18, 2018
Video: Al-Qaeda Members in Idlib Pretend to be ‘Democratic Activists’ By South Front, September 18, 2018
PLO-UNWRA Meeting: Dr. Ashrawi Meets with UNRWA Commissioner-General Pierre Krähenbühl By The Palestine Liberation Organization, September 17, 2018
The Bluffer’s Guide to Bombing Syria By Peter Ford, September 17, 2018
The Liberation of Idlib: Turkey Is in the Way, with Russia Slowing Down By Elijah J. Magnier, September 17, 2018
US Military
US War Strategists: Military Defeats and Political Success By Prof. James Petras, September 17, 2018
Syria’s Christian City: Seven Years Under Fire at the Idlib Frontline By Tom Westcott, September 17, 2018
Israeli-Palestinian
Trump Can Kill Oslo, But Not Palestinian National Aspirations By James J. Zogby, September 17, 2018
Emboldened by Trump, Israel Bombs Damascus International Airport By Miri Wood, September 16, 2018
Spain
Spain Sells Laser Guided Missiles to Saudi Arabia. Destruction and Death In Yemen vs. Unemployment in Spain By Peter Koenig, September 16, 2018
Yemenis
US, UK, Saudis, and UAE Want Yemenis to Starve By Stephen Lendman, September 16, 2018
Israel-Palestine: The Humanitarian Consequences of an Occupation By Michael Welch, September 16, 2018
Iraq
Washington’s “Divide and Rule Strategy” in Basra, Home of Iraq’s Biggest Oil Fields By Dr. Dina Y. Sulaeman, September 15, 2018
Trump Administration Outraged at John Kerry for Talking to Iran By Middle East Eye, September 15, 2018
Marines
Marines Team Up with Islamists in Syria By Kurt Nimmo, September 15, 2018
political sanctions
The Two Most Dangerous Warmongers in Political Office Today By Hans Stehling, September 14, 2018
Turkey
Turkey’s Political Agenda in the Balkans. Erdogan’s Islamic Influence in Bosnia By Prof. Alon Ben-Meir and Arbana Xharra, September 14, 2018
Video: Turkey Deploys Battle Tanks at Observation Post in Northern Hama By South Front, September 14, 2018
Criticising Israel: A Lesson From the Past. Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat Shake Hands By Robin Lustig, September 14, 2018
Idlib
Counter-Terrorism Operation against Al Qaeda’s Stronghold in Northern Syria: The Liberation of Idlib By Firas Samuri, September 14, 2018
Anger Soars as Israel Turns Mosque into Wine Shop By The Palestinian Information Center, September 14, 2018
Neocons Plan: War in Syria, Then Iran By Adam Dick, September 14, 2018
Bid to Starve 2 Million Palestinians into Submission as Trump Repays Zionist Backer Netanyahu for His Presidency By Hans Stehling, September 14, 2018
Censored Documentary Exposes the Israeli Government’s Attack on Black Lives Matter By Max Blumenthal, September 14, 2018
Video: Turkey Abducts Suspect of 2013 Reyhanli Bombing in Lattakia By South Front, September 14, 2018
U.S. Again Cries ‘Chemical Warfare’ in Syria By Scott Ritter, September 14, 2018
On the Brink with Russia in Syria Again, 5 Years Later By Ray McGovern, September 14, 2018
RT
First They Came for Alex Jones, Then for Russian Cable News RT and Syrian TV. Going to War with Russia, Syria, Iran? By Ann Garrison, September 13, 2018
Top Three Charges on Which John Bolton Should be Tried at the International Criminal Court (ICC) By Prof. Juan Cole, September 13, 2018
Syria
The Iran-Russia-Turkey Summit on Syria. Towards Multi-Polar Geopolitical Alliances By Mark Taliano and Tasnim News Agency, September 13, 2018
Video: Militants Filming Staged Chemical Attack in Idlib? According to Idlib Inhabitants By South Front, September 13, 2018
The US-Turkey Stand-off in Context: The Weaponisation of Global Finance By Vassilis K. Fouskas and Bulent Gokay, September 13, 2018
The White House Countdown Begins for the Death of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) By Motasem A Dalloul, September 12, 2018
Haider_al-Abadi, Photo by Foreign and Commonwealth Office - Flickr (CC BY 2.0)
US Favorite Candidate for Iraq PM, Haider al-Abadi Has Fallen with the Burned Walls of the Iranian Consulate in Basra By Elijah J. Magnier, September 12, 2018
Iran
Gramsci, Passive Revolution and 20th Century Iran By Marziyeh Asgari Vash and Karim Pourhamzavi, September 12, 2018
US
The US: The Century of Lost Wars By Prof. James Petras, September 12, 2018
Will the U.S. Let India Continue to Import Iranian Crude? By Tim Daiss, September 12, 2018
Is Our World Cultural Heritage Worth Saving? Activists Call Out Saudi Arabia on the Disappearing of History By Catherine Shakdam, September 11, 2018
Russia’s Pivoting to the Horn of Africa and the Red Sea via Eritrea and the UAE By Andrew Korybko, September 11, 2018
Video: Washington Claims That Assad Government Wants to Bomb Schools, Hospitals and Homes in Idlib under the Guise of Counter-Terrorism By South Front, September 11, 2018
Target Syria: Will a New War be the October Surprise? By Philip Giraldi, September 11, 2018
Merkel’s Chasing a Failed Dream by Fantasizing About Bombing Syria By Andrew Korybko, September 11, 2018
Why Are We Siding with Al-Qaeda? By Rep. Ron Paul, September 11, 2018
Osamagate By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, September 10, 2018
Albert Einstein’s 1948 Letter to the New York Times Comparing Israeli Politicians to Nazis By Dr. Albert Einstein and Michael R. Burch, September 10, 2018
Israel Should Not Have to Ask Washington’s Permission for Settlements: US Ambassador Friedman By Yemenpress, September 10, 2018
Pompeo’s Fingerprints Are All Over Trump’s New Syria Regime Change Policy By Whitney Webb, September 10, 2018
Are the US and UK Empowering Al-Qaeda in Yemen? By Mark Curtis, September 10, 2018
US Air Forces Strike Deir Ez-Zor with Banned Phosphorus Shells – Mod By Muraselon, September 10, 2018
Moscow Has Upped the Ante in Syria By Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity, September 10, 2018
Propaganda
How the U.S. Does Propaganda By Eric Zuesse, September 10, 2018
Russia and Iran Versus Turkey: Strange Bedfellows on Syria By Stephen Lendman, September 09, 2018
Trump Cuts $25m in Aid for Palestinians in East Jerusalem Hospitals By Middle East Eye, September 09, 2018
Tony Blair Confirms Receiving Millions in Donation From Saudi By Middle East Monitor, September 09, 2018
Video: The Great Conspiracy: The 9/11 News Special You Never Saw By Barrie Zwicker and Michael Welch, September 09, 2018
Demonization of Middle East Leaders Prior to Invasion and “Regime Change”. Trump’s Iran Policy By Farhang Jahanpour, September 08, 2018
Netanyahu Regime Secretly Arming and Funding Twelve or More Terrorist Groups in Syria By Stephen Lendman, September 08, 2018
Idlib
Idlib: Al Qaeda’s Last Stand By Tony Cartalucci, September 08, 2018
Video: Israel Censors News on Its Support to Al Qaeda Militants in Syria By South Front, September 07, 2018
War on Terrorism
Al Qaeda and the “War on Terrorism” By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, September 07, 2018
West Support Al Qaeda
Civilization Versus Barbarism. Why Does the West Support Al Qaeda? By Mark Taliano, September 07, 2018
Saudi Arabia
Criticism of Saudi Leadership Seeps Through Cracks as Report Questions Kingdom’s Utility for Britain By James M. Dorsey, September 06, 2018
The Gaza Strip: Funding for Emergency Fuel Needed Immediately to Avoid Catastrophic Breakdown in Essential Services By UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, September 06, 2018
British government
Once Again, Palestinians Are Shafted by The British Government, Responding to Pressures from pro-Israeli Lobby By Rima Najjar, September 06, 2018
Israel to Sell Freedom Flotilla Boats to Support Settlers By Middle East Monitor, September 06, 2018
US Ambassador: Jerusalem Made Israel’s Capital ‘Under God’s Direction’ 3,000 Years Ago By Middle East Monitor, September 06, 2018
UN Says the Obvious: Al-Qaeda Able to Produce Chlorine Gas in Syria By Paul Antonopoulos, September 05, 2018
No Wonder Jeremy Corbyn Is Reluctant to be Gagged by the Conservative Friends of Israel (CFI) Lobby at Westminster By Hans Stehling, September 05, 2018
Syria
Turkish and US Regimes Allied Against Syria By Stephen Lendman, September 05, 2018
Mayor of Jerusalem to Stop UNRWA’s Operations By Middle East Monitor, September 05, 2018
Turkish Media Slam Washington Over “Exploiting Christianity Against Ankara” By Gizem Akbash, September 05, 2018
Israel
Israel’s Fifth Column By Philip Giraldi, September 04, 2018
Basra Residents Reeling From Contaminated Drinking Water By Mustafa Saadoun, September 04, 2018
Israel’s Smear Campaign Will Not Stop Until Jeremy Corbyn Fights Back By Asa Winstanley, September 04, 2018
Can’t We Just Leave Syria Alone? By Rep. Ron Paul, September 04, 2018
Open letter From UNRWA Commissioner-General to Palestine Refugees and UNRWA Staff By Pierre Krähenbühl and ReliefWeb, September 04, 2018
Will the Trump Regime Clash with Russia and Iran Over Syria’s Offensive to Liberate Idlib? By Stephen Lendman, September 04, 2018