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.
The Siege of Hodeidah, Washington’s War Crime in Yemen By Bill Van Auken, June 17, 2018
Britain Needs a Full Public Inquiry into Libya War By Mark Curtis, June 16, 2018
Hewlett Packard to Lose Millions as India’s Student Federation Endorses Pro-Palestinian BDS By Telesur, June 16, 2018
White Helmets: A Tool for ‘Regime Change’ in Syria that’s Too Important to Stop Funding? By RT News, June 16, 2018
Drivers Behind the War on Syria and the Impoverishment of Us All By Mark Taliano, June 16, 2018
Catastrophic Risk of Death for 300,000 Yemeni Children Trapped by Attack on Hodeidah By Yemenpress, June 16, 2018
What’s in Trump’s ‘Deal of the Century’? The Answers Are in Plain Sight By Jonathan Cook, June 16, 2018
How Bulldozers, Bedouin and Ethnic Cleansing Herald the Death of the Two-state Solution By Peter Oborne, June 16, 2018
Israel’s Environmental Colonialism and Eco-Apartheid By Ben Lorber, June 15, 2018
War of Annihilation: Amnesty’s Investigation into the Siege of Raqqa: US, UK and France Committed War Crimes By Dr. Leon Tressell and Rosa Tressell, June 15, 2018
Expanded War, Hunger, Disease, Death in Yemen. No Big Deal to US By William Boardman, June 15, 2018
Video: Russia, Turkey Reportedly Reach Agreement on Tell Rifaat By South Front, June 15, 2018
Why Isn’t Anyone Talking About the Israeli Military Coming to Alaska? By The Peace Report, June 15, 2018
Humanitarian Snapshot: Casualties in the Context of Demonstrations and Hostilities in Gaza, 30 March – 12 June 2018 By UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, June 15, 2018
Bipartisan Letter Calling on Pentagon to Withhold US Support for Disastrous Assault on Yemen’s Major Port By Eric Garris, June 15, 2018
US to Shell Out $6.6mn for White Helmets ‘Vital Operations’ Weeks after Promising Funding Freeze By RT News, June 15, 2018
UN Condemnation of Israeli Violence Against Palestinians Won’t End It By Stephen Lendman, June 14, 2018
Saudi Arabia Drags Geopolitical Baggage on to the World Cup Pitch By James M. Dorsey, June 14, 2018
Syria’s President Assad Says US, French, Turks, Israeli Troops Are Occupying Forces By Press TV, June 14, 2018
Documents Show Private Intelligence Web Behind Global Surveillance Program By Max Blumenthal, June 14, 2018
Video: The War on Yemen and the Battle for Hudaydah By South Front, June 14, 2018
War on Iran Is Now US Policy, According to Secretary of State Pompeo By William Boardman, June 14, 2018
How ‘Regime Change’ Wars Led to Korea Crisis By Robert Parry, June 14, 2018
‘Every Bullet Has a Precise Address’ – Another Israeli Journalist Justifies the Massacre By Jonathan Ofir, June 14, 2018
Video: Italian Troops Deployed in Eastern Syria By South Front, June 13, 2018
They Want to Cut the Main Vein of Yemen. US Supported Naval Blockade, Widespread Famine By Yemenpress, June 13, 2018
US-Backed Coalition Bombs Yemen’s New Cholera Treatment Center, After Unleashing World’s Largest Outbreak By Ben Norton, June 13, 2018
Gaza Strip: Attacks in the Border Areas and Their Consequences By Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, June 13, 2018
The Bombing of Hodeidah, Yemen’s Biggest Port: UK Government Complicit in a Humanitarian Catastrophe By CAAT - Campaign Against Arms Trade, June 13, 2018
Trump Will Never Get a Better Deal with Iran By Scott Ritter, June 13, 2018
I Use Chemicals? Prove It! Syrian President Assad Brands Gas Attacks ‘Fake News’ and Calls Theresa May a ‘Colonialist and a Liar’ in Face to Face Interview By Hala Jaber, June 13, 2018
MSF Ceases Activities in Northwestern Yemen After Saudi Airstrike Hit Medical Center By Press TV, June 12, 2018
International Fight for the Right to Self-Determination of the Palestinian People By Ken Stone, June 12, 2018
Why Venezuela and Syria Cannot Fall By Andre Vltchek, June 12, 2018
Knesset Foils Efforts to End Israeli Apartheid By Jonathan Cook, June 12, 2018
The “Manbij Model”, Turkey-US Deal for Northeastern Syria By Andrew Korybko, June 11, 2018
Israel and Its Spokespeople Can “Justify” Only Through Lies and Deflections By Rima Najjar, June 11, 2018
Social Crisis in Gaza: Bartlett Pierces the Fog of War Lies and Omissions By Mark Taliano, June 11, 2018
Video: Syrian Army Repels Series of ISIS Attacks on Syrian-Iraqi Border By South Front, June 11, 2018
A Weak and Divided Iraq Is Stumbling Towards an Unbalanced Future By Elijah J. Magnier, June 11, 2018
ISIS Toyotas
Is Uncle Sam Funding the Islamic State? Where Does ISIS Get All Those Tanks, Weapons And Shiny New Toyota Trucks? By Elizabeth Parker, June 10, 2018
The Nuances of Qatar’s Interest in NATO By Andrew Korybko, June 10, 2018
Breaking: ISIS Terrorists Are Only Present in US-controlled Areas in Syria – Russian MoD By Leith Aboufadel, June 10, 2018
Violence with Impunity: The Unending Tragedy of the Israeli Occupation of Palestine By Michael Welch, Sean Clinton, and Prof. Yakov M. Rabkin, June 10, 2018
Motion in British Parliament to Condemn the Slaughter of Palestinian Civilians Receives Fewer Signatures than Motion to ‘Cherish British Hedgehogs’ in the Same Week By Rory Wood, June 09, 2018
Fifty Years Ago: The Israeli Attack on the USS Liberty By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, June 09, 2018
One Door Closes, Another Opens: Trump’s Withdrawal from Iran Nuclear Deal Plays to Pakistan’s Strategic Advantage By Andrew Korybko, June 08, 2018
Saudi Effort to Isolate Iran Internationally By James M. Dorsey, June 08, 2018
Video: Syrian Army Carries Out Anti-ISIS Operation in Eastern Al-Suwayda By South Front, June 08, 2018
Venezuela: Vanguard of a New World. Iran to Follow in the Same Footsteps? By Peter Koenig, June 08, 2018
US Military
How Washington Has Lost Its Way By Philip Giraldi, June 08, 2018
Trump’s Withdrawal from the Iran Deal Is Partially a Power Play Against the EU By Andrew Korybko, June 07, 2018
Apartheid in Action: Israeli Parliament Blocks Vote on “Equal Rights for All” By Richard Becker, June 07, 2018
Video: Kurdish Leadership Declares Readiness for Direct Negotiations with Damascus By South Front, June 07, 2018
Voices from Syria. Baroness Cox and Revd David Thomas By Baroness Caroline Cox and Revd David Thomas, June 07, 2018
Ex-CIA Officer Lists Three Reasons Why Netanyahu’s EU Charm Offensive Failed By Philip Giraldi and Sputnik, June 07, 2018
He Lives! Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman’s First Foreign Trip Since His Disappearance Will be to Moscow By Andrew Korybko, June 07, 2018
Argentinian Footballers Cancel Match with Israel, Infuriating Netanyahu By Stephen Lendman, June 07, 2018
“We Cannot Defy the US”: EU Oil Refiners Fold to Trump, Will Stop Buying Iran Crude By Zero Hedge, June 07, 2018
Israel Scores Painful Own Goal in Run-up to the World Cup. Argentina Cancels “Friendly” Match with Israel By James M. Dorsey, June 07, 2018
The West Is Turning a Blind Eye to the Gaza Massacre By Jeremy Corbyn, June 07, 2018
In Unanimous Vote, House Says No Legal Right to Attack Iran By Prof. Marjorie Cohn, June 07, 2018
Video: The US-Turkey Roadmap for Northern Syria. Kurdish YPG Forces Withdraw from Manbij By South Front, June 06, 2018
Israel
All Gazan Casualties Are Intentional, Not Accidental By Stephen Lendman, June 06, 2018
Putin’s Endgame in Syria: Victory or Stalemate? By Adeyinka Makinde, June 06, 2018
The Raw Truth About the UK’s Special Relationship with Israel By Mark Curtis, June 06, 2018
Russia Building the Trans-Arabian Railway Will Make the Saudis More Multipolar By Andrew Korybko, June 06, 2018
Video: Roadmap for Manbij, Explosion Near US-French Military Base in Northern Syria By South Front, June 06, 2018
Canadian News Fabricators regarding the So-called “Syrian Opposition” By Mark Taliano, June 06, 2018
Russia’s Putin and Israel’s Netanyahu Negotiate… About What? By Rick Sterling and Ann Garrison, June 06, 2018
Palestinian Courage Should Spur International Action By Rick Sterling, June 06, 2018
Amnesty Report: US-Led Coalition Killed Hundreds of Civilians in Syria’s Raqqa By Prof. Scott Lucas, June 05, 2018
Video: Syrian Government, SDF Reach Agreement on Omar Oil Field By South Front, June 05, 2018
War on Syria
Syria’s Upcoming Constitutional Commission Will be About “Decentralization” By Andrew Korybko, June 05, 2018
IDF on Murder of Razan al-Najjar: She Was Killed “in Accordance with Standard Operating Procedures.” (True Enough) By Norman Finkelstein, June 05, 2018
The Interminable Palestinian Uprising By Barbara Nimri Aziz, June 05, 2018
Extensive War Crimes: The U.S. Is Responsible for the Humanitarian Catastrophe in Raqqa By Firas Samuri, June 05, 2018
The Palestinian Struggle: In Memory of Razan al-Najjar By Orly Noy, June 05, 2018
While Palestinian Paramedic Razan Lost Her Life, US Ambassador to UN Nikki Haley “Lost Her Humanity” By Prof. Kamel Hawwash, June 04, 2018
Russia Hints ISIS-Linked Militants Operating in US Controlled Zones in Syria By Brandon Turbeville, June 04, 2018