Middle East & North Africa

Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, today’s de facto ruler of Damascus, has an eloquent history: he began his jihadist militancy in al-Qaeda’s ranks as an associate of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the “caliph” who founded ISIS, the Islamic State of Iraq and

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.
Video: “My Jerusalem”: Responding to the U.S. Embassy Announcement By Michael Welch, July 22, 2018
Israeli War on Gaza Over Kites? By Stephen Lendman, July 21, 2018
Syria
Video: U.S. Backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) Political Wing Seeks to Normalize Relations with Damascus By South Front, July 21, 2018
Land Allocation in the West Bank – For Israelis Only By Americans for Peace Now., July 20, 2018
Read in Full: Israel’s Nation State of the Jewish People Law By Middle East Eye, July 20, 2018
Syria’s Assad Set to Recover Golan Frontier as Surrender Deal Agreed: Sources By The Daily Star, July 20, 2018
Cost of UK Air and Drone Strikes in Iraq and Syria Reach £1.75 Billion By Chris Cole, July 20, 2018
White Helmets
Western Governments Seek to Evacuate White Helmets From Syria, Resettle Them in Canada By Whitney Webb, July 19, 2018
Video: From the Freedom Flotilla, Former Israeli Air Force Pilot Calls for a Boycott of Israel By Yonatan Shapira and Dimitri Lascaris, July 19, 2018
Global Jewish Groups Issue Joint Statement in Support of BDS Movement By Telesur, July 19, 2018
Apartheid Rule Over Palestinians Enacted Into Israeli Basic Law By Stephen Lendman, July 19, 2018
Israeli Minister: Israeli Jets Should Drop Bombs Over the Heads of Gaza Children By Middle East Monitor, July 18, 2018
Manufacturing the Drones Above Gaza By Marigold Warner, July 18, 2018
No Nerve Agents Found – The OPCW Interim Report on Douma By Media Lens, July 18, 2018
As Saudi-Led Attack on Hodeidah Escalates, Yemeni Tribes Bolster Resistance By Ahmed AbdulKareem, July 18, 2018
Imperial Conquest: America’s “Long War” against Humanity By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, July 18, 2018
Video: Criminalization of War, Israel’s Biggest Concentration Camp. Michel Chossudovsky By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, July 18, 2018
Video: Militants Are on Full Retreat in Southern Syria By South Front, July 18, 2018
It’s Official, “Israel” Is Now a Joint Russian-American Protectorate By Andrew Korybko, July 18, 2018
Video: West’s War Against Syria Is Packed in Lies and Deceptions By Mark Taliano and Tate Ulsaker, July 17, 2018
Video: Militants Hand Over Dozens Units of Military Equipment to Syrian Army By South Front, July 17, 2018
Refiner in China Replacing US Imports with Iranian Crude. Beijing Slaps Tariffs on American Crude Oil By Financial Tribune, July 17, 2018
Situation in Gaza Strip Remains Tense with Little Chances of De-escalation Soon By South Front, July 17, 2018
US Message to Assad: “We Will Pull Out of Al-Tanf and the North If Iran Withdraws From Syria” By Elijah J. Magnier, July 16, 2018
Trump Is Israel’s “Useful Idiot” By Philip Giraldi, July 16, 2018
NATO Used Depleted Uranium Munitions in 2011 Libya Airstrikes – Report By Sputnik, July 16, 2018
Ireland’s Decision to Advance Boycott Bill Could be the Tipping Point for Justice for Palestine By Prof. Kamel Hawwash, July 16, 2018
West Scrambles to Evacuate White Helmets From Syria Amid Assassination Threats By Press TV, July 16, 2018
Why Is Israel Not Being Held to the Same International Standards as All Other UN Member States? By Hans Stehling, July 15, 2018
Deal with US-Supported Terrorists to Surrender. Symbolic Flag Raising in Daraa, Syria By Stephen Lendman, July 14, 2018
Video: Syrian Army Liberated Daraa City By South Front, July 14, 2018
Falling Short: An Analysis of the Reporting of UK Drone Strikes by the MoD By Chris Cole, July 13, 2018
Trump Is Seeding War Clouds Over Iran By Michael S. Rozeff, July 13, 2018
Empire of Misery: America Sees War as the Solution By Hugo Turner, July 13, 2018
Israel Is Bulldozing Khan Al Ahmar – and with It the Two-State Solution By Jonathan Cook, July 13, 2018
Video: Syrian Army Retakes More Villages in Southern Syria By South Front, July 13, 2018
As Trump Threatens End of NATO Alliance, UK Defence and Security at Risk Given Israeli Involvement? By Hans Stehling, July 12, 2018
Seanad Éireann in Solidarity with Palestine: Irish Senate Votes in Favour of Occupied Territories Bill By Caoimhghin Ó Croidheáin, July 12, 2018
European Powers Prepare to Scrap Dollar in Iran Trade as Disgust with “America First” Policies Mount By Elliott Gabriel, July 12, 2018
German Parliament: US Presence in Syria Is Illegal By Worlds Truth, July 12, 2018
Who Are Washington’s “Revolutionaries” in Iran? The Mojahedin-e Khalq (MEK) Terror Group By Tony Cartalucci, July 12, 2018
The Starving Children of Yemen By Daniel Larison, July 12, 2018
Even More US-Made Anti-Tank Weapons Are Turning Up in ISIS Hands By Jared Keller, July 11, 2018
‘They Bombed Trapped Civilians’: Amnesty’s Damning Report on UK, US, France Destruction in Raqqa By RT News, July 11, 2018
The Scars of War: Mosul’s Children Haunted a Year After Islamic State Was Routed By Sheeffah Shiraz, July 11, 2018
Freedom Flotilla: A Humanitarian Journey to Gaza By Dr. Swee Ang, July 11, 2018
USS Liberty Survivor Named US Delegate on Gaza Flotilla By Joe Lauria, July 11, 2018
Starving and Bombed Children of Yemen Seek Entrapment in Flooded Thai Cave By Robert J. Burrowes, July 11, 2018
The Gaza Blockade: Humanitarian Emergency By we4Gaza, July 10, 2018
Top Israeli Security Expert Warns Against War with Iran By Press TV, July 10, 2018
Murder on the Beach: British-backed Wars Helped Create Tunisian Killer By Mark Curtis, July 10, 2018
A Neoconservative Plan for Punishing Iran By Philip Giraldi, July 10, 2018
Secret US 2006 Government Document Reveals Plan to Destabilize Syria by Using Extremists, Muslim Brotherhood, Elections By Brandon Turbeville, July 10, 2018
Video: Eva Bartlett on Syria, Israeli violence in Gaza By Eva Bartlett and Michael Welch, July 09, 2018
Ethnic Cleansing at the Khan Al-Ahmar Palestinian Community By Dr. Mazin Qumsiyeh, July 09, 2018
Balfour’s Britain and the Gaza Internment Camp in This Summer By Dr. David Halpin, July 09, 2018
Nicaragua
The Demonization of Iran at the UN Security Council By Carla Stea, July 09, 2018
The Gaza Blockade Is Illegal– and So Is the Use of Force to Maintain It By Norman Finkelstein, July 09, 2018
Trump Sidelined as UN Security Council Plus Germany Meet Iran’s Rouhani in Vienna By Prof. Juan Cole, July 09, 2018
Ex-CIA Officer: US Sanctions on China Over Trade with Iran May Trigger Chaos By Sputnik, July 08, 2018
Interim OPCW Report on Alleged April 7th Gas Attack in Syria Indicates No Evidence Yet of Any Such Attack By Eric Zuesse, July 08, 2018
Dubious OPCW Report on Douma False Flag Chemical Weapon Incident By Stephen Lendman, July 08, 2018
OPCW Investigating Accusations that Syrian Government Used Nerve Gas or Chemical Weapon in Douma By Eva Bartlett, July 08, 2018
Washington’s Latest Myths, Lies and Oil Wars. “A Coherent Strategy to Promote Disruption in Key Oil Flows” By F. William Engdahl, July 08, 2018
Why’s Iran so Desperate for Europe to Save the Nuclear Deal? Moscow-Tehran Relations By Andrew Korybko, July 07, 2018
90 Years After Che Guevara’s Birth By Prof Susan Babbitt, July 07, 2018
Video: Syrian Army Retakes Multiple Points on Border with Jordan By South Front, July 07, 2018
Khan al-Ahmar: Israel’s Top Court Freezes Demolition of Palestinian Village By Middle East Eye, July 07, 2018
Adam Garrie: The White Helmets and Western Governments’ Effort to Publicly Rehabilitate al-Qaeda By Adam Garrie, July 06, 2018
Eva Bartlett: Torture, Starvation, Executions: Eastern Ghouta Civilians Talk of Life Under Terrorist Rule By Eva Bartlett, July 06, 2018
Netanyahu Regime Cuts Off Funds to Palestinians By Stephen Lendman, July 06, 2018
Blaming Iran for the Sufferings of Yemenis Is Laughable By M.A. Saki, July 06, 2018
Iran oil, US sanctions
Iran Looks to Barter Oil as U.S. Sanctions Bite By Tsvetana Paraskova, July 06, 2018
A No Man’s Land: Travelling Around the West Bank After Nine Years By CJ Weaver, July 06, 2018
Canadian Student Arrested by Israeli Forces for Protesting Israeli Demolition of Palestinian Village By Independent Jewish Voices, July 06, 2018
Video: FSA Militants Surrender Heavy Weapons to Syrian Army By South Front, July 05, 2018
The Battle in Southern Syria Is Coming to an End: Has Israel Bowed to Russia’s Demands? By Elijah J. Magnier, July 05, 2018
Video: Syrian Government Forces Retake 27 Settlements in Southern Provinces By South Front, July 05, 2018
Canada’s NDP’s Claim to ‘Dialogue’ with Palestinians a Cruel Joke By Yves Engler, July 05, 2018
Israel Lawyer Appointed Chair of UN Human Rights Committee By Middle East Monitor, July 05, 2018