Middle East & North Africa

Syria “Liberated” by its own Destroyers By Manlio Dinucci, December 14, 2024

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 …

When Terrorism becomes Counter-terrorism: The State Sponsors of Terrorism are “Going After the Terrorists” By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, May 15, 2022
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.
Ten Years Ago: “Operation Libya” and the Battle for Oil: Redrawing the Map of Africa By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, February 20, 2021
Libya is among the World's largest oil economies with approximately 3.5% of global oil reserves, more than twice those of the US.
America, An Empire on its Last Leg: To be Kicked Out from the Middle East? By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, January 07, 2020
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: Syria Government Forces Pressure ISIS Cells on Multiple Fronts By South Front, June 22, 2018
With Help from Their Jewish Israeli Friends: A Palestinian Political Initiative (In the Making) By Rima Najjar, June 21, 2018
Biased UN Commission of Inquiry on Syria By Stephen Lendman, June 21, 2018
Yemen: Al-Hudaydah Airport Still Remains Contested By South Front, June 21, 2018
Canadian Doctor Shot by Israelis Lobbies Trudeau to Fund Gaza Hospital Project By Jillian D'Amours, June 21, 2018
The Battle of Daraa against ISIS, Al Qaeda and FSA: Hezbollah Special Forces Will Participate By Elijah J. Magnier, June 21, 2018
Libya’s Lawless Skies By Samuel Oakford, June 21, 2018
Trump’s Military Drops a Bomb Every 12 Minutes, and No One Is Talking About It By Lee Camp, June 21, 2018
Israeli-Occupied East Jerusalem to be Visited by Prince William By Hans Stehling, June 21, 2018
Grieve the Beloved Children: Israel and the War on Children By Judith Deutsch, June 21, 2018
Video: Syrian Army Attacks “Militants” in Daraa Province. Al Qaeda and ISIS Pockets in Southern Syria By South Front, June 21, 2018
Enclosure of Gaza as a “Prison Territory”: High Tech Surveillance Wall to Separate Gaza from Israel By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, June 20, 2018
Israel’s IDF Snipers: Choosing Who to Shoot By Stephen Shenfield, June 20, 2018
Video: Many Government Fighters Killed in Alleged US Strikes in Eastern Syria in Support of Terrorist Groups By South Front, June 20, 2018
Large-scale Syrian Arab Army Offensive against US/Israeli supported Terrorists in Southwest Syria? By Stephen Lendman, June 19, 2018
Video: Battle for Al-Hudaydah, Turning Point in Yemen War? By South Front, June 19, 2018
Open Letter to the Board of Deputies of British Jews From Jewish People in the UK By Craig Berman and Sarah Glynn, June 19, 2018
Iraq: US Airstrikes Kill 22 Hashd al-Shaabi Fighters By Haydar Hadi, June 19, 2018
The Liberal’s Lament Over Israel By James J. Zogby, June 19, 2018
Ex-Mossad Chief: Best Part of My Job Was Having ‘a License to Crime’ By Richard Silverstein, June 19, 2018
The More Plausible and Reasonable History of Palestine and Israel By Rima Najjar, June 19, 2018
Video: Syrian Government Forces Confront the ISIS in Southern Syria By South Front, June 19, 2018
Is Greece About to Lay Legal Claim to Atatürk and His Legacy? By Andrew Korybko, June 18, 2018
Eurasian Economic Union: Steady Progress Towards Eurasian Integration By Dmitry Bokarev, June 18, 2018
Hundreds Killed and Thousands Flee as Saudi-led Forces Bomb Yemeni Port to ‘Liberate’ It By RT News, June 18, 2018
Is Trump-Kim Deal Really Peace or Is It a Set up for War? By Brandon Turbeville, June 18, 2018
Scapegoating Iran By Chris Hedges, June 18, 2018
Human Rights an Issue in US/Israeli Relations? US Aid Finances Gross Violations? By Stephen Lendman, June 18, 2018
Atlantic Council Lies Dashed “On the Rocks” in Syria By Tony Cartalucci, June 17, 2018
Israeli Military Order 1797 Authorizes Ethnic Cleansing, Demolition of Palestinian Homes By Stephen Lendman, June 17, 2018
Russian-Syrian Warnings of a Coming False-Flag Chemical Attack Have Ring of Truth By Whitney Webb, June 17, 2018
The Impact of War: Mental Health of Syrian Children By Hanaa Mustafa, June 17, 2018
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