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.
Video: White House Intelligence Report on Idlib Chemical Attack “Misinterprets Evidence”, “Politically Motivated” By Dr. Theodore Postol, April 18, 2017
Destroying Palestinian Agriculture? Israeli Planes Spray Herbicides Inside Gaza for the Fourth Time This Year By Natasha Roth, April 17, 2017
Turkey’s Constitutional Referendum Divides Country, Opposition Cries Foul By Stephen Lendman, April 17, 2017
The West Supports Terrorism: Washington’s “Dark State” Agendas By Mark Taliano, April 17, 2017
Al-Qaeda Suicide Attack Kills 100+ Children, Women – Who’s Behind It? By Moon of Alabama, April 17, 2017
Did Al Qaeda Fool the White House Again? By Robert Parry, April 17, 2017
Threats to World Peace and America’s Imperial Wars: Syria, Afghanistan, North Korea By Abayomi Azikiwe, April 17, 2017
Syrian “Rebels” Massacre at Least 126 Civilians in Suicide Bomb Blast By Jordan Shilton, April 17, 2017
Ambassador Nikki Haley
Trump’s Political Suicide Pushes China, Iran and Russia Closer By Federico Pieraccini, April 16, 2017
Syria: Horrific Onslaught on Aramaic Christian Community of Ma’aloula at Hands of Western Backed “Moderate” Terrorists By Janice Kortkamp, April 16, 2017
The Mother of Bombs Goes to Afghanistan By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, April 16, 2017
Military Escalation? Trump Undecided Whether to Go Light or Heavy in Syria By Stephen Lendman, April 16, 2017
Video: The Syria Strikes, A Conspiracy Theory By James Corbett, April 16, 2017
Fake News, Propaganda and “False Flags”: Syria’s Gas Attacks and Washington’s Fake Intelligence Narrative By Gregor Flock, April 16, 2017
Video: Did US-Led Coalition Air Power Strike ISIS Chemical Weapons Depot Near Deir Ezzor? By South Front, April 16, 2017
Chemical Weapons in Syria and the UN Security Council: No Resolution Adopted By Prof Nicolas Boeglin, April 16, 2017
Damascus: Easter Week in a City Under Fire By Patrick Henningsen, April 16, 2017
Top Ten Reasons To Doubt Official Story On Assad Poison-Gas Attack By Jon Rappoport, April 15, 2017
Trump Undecided Whether to Go Light or Heavy in Syria? Divisions within Trump “War Cabinet” By Stephen Lendman, April 15, 2017
Trump May Send Up To 50,000 Troops To Syria By Zero Hedge, April 15, 2017
Syria: Watching the Jordanian Border. America’s Military Buildup By Tony Cartalucci, April 15, 2017
Video: White House ‘Declassified Report’ on Chemical Weapons Attack in Idlib: Propaganda or Incompetence? By South Front, April 15, 2017
China and Russia Veto UN Security Council Resolution on Syria – No Carte Blanche for Chapter VII By Dr. Christof Lehmann, April 14, 2017
The White House “Intelligence Assessment” Is No-Such-Thing: It Shows Support for Al-Qaeda By Moon of Alabama, April 14, 2017
The Money-Quote From the Postol Report on the Recent Gas Attack in Syria By Eric Zuesse, April 14, 2017
Trump Withholds Syria-Sarin Evidence By Robert Parry, April 14, 2017
Video: President Al-Assad: Khan Sheikhoun Chemical Weapons Incident Totally Fabricated.. the US is Not Serious in Achieving Any Political Solution By AFP and Bashar al Assad, April 14, 2017
BREAKING: Assad Speaks to BBC. Chemical Attack “100% Fabrication.” US Working “Hand in Glove” with ISIS By Alex Christoforou, April 14, 2017
Breaking: US- Led Coalition Airstrikes against ISIS Held Chemical Weapons Depot, Hundreds Killed By Global Research News, April 13, 2017
Was Chemical Attack in Syria a “False Flag” to Trigger U.S. War? By Alex Newman, April 13, 2017
Those Condemning Syria Have Themselves Recently Used Chemical Weapons By Washington's Blog, April 13, 2017
Historical Origins of the State: Barbarians at the Gate By Arthur D. Robbins, April 12, 2017
Trump’s Syria Attack Trampled Many Laws By Prof. Marjorie Cohn, April 12, 2017
No “Problems” with Export of Iraqi – Kurdish Oil via Turkey and Drawing New Borders in the Middle East By Dr. Christof Lehmann, April 12, 2017
Intelligence and Military Sources Who Warned About Weapons Lies Before Iraq War Now Say that Assad Did Not Launch Chemical Weapon Attack By Washington's Blog, April 12, 2017
Is There A New U.S. Syria Policy? Is There One At All? By Moon of Alabama, April 12, 2017
Out of 46 Major Editorials on Trump’s Syria Strikes, Only One Opposed By Adam Johnson, April 12, 2017
Idlib ‘Chemical Attack’ was False Flag to Set Assad Up, More May Come – Putin By RT News, April 12, 2017
Canada’s Support for Terrorism in Syria By Mark Taliano, April 12, 2017
@realDonald Trump: ‘Be Prepared, There is a Small Chance That Our Horrendous Leadership Could Lead Us Into World War III’ By Citizens Electoral Council of Australia, April 12, 2017
The Trump /Syria Conundrum: Will Trump Deliver Deep State’s World War? By Larry Chin, April 12, 2017
The Syrian Chemical Weapons Nexus: Verdict First, Evidence Later By James ONeill, April 12, 2017
Trump Should Rethink Syria Escalation. The Risk of Nuclear War. Former Intelligence Officials Urge Trump to Rethink Blaming Syrian Government By Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity, April 12, 2017
Video: U.S. Ready for More Syria Missile Strikes By South Front, April 12, 2017
Video: All Out War, Confrontation with Russia? The U.S. is Pushing Towards a “Non-Peaceful Solution” of the Syrian Conflict By South Front, April 11, 2017
A scene of destruction after an aerial bombing in Azaz, Syria, Aug. 16, 2012. (U.S. government photo)
Inventing Enemies, Manipulating Public Opinion, Selling Escalated War on Syria By Stephen Lendman, April 11, 2017
Analysis of Evidence Contradicts Allegations on Syrian Gas Attacks By Adam Larson, April 11, 2017
Reflecting on Syria By Andre Vltchek, April 11, 2017
Why the Latest Claims Against Assad are a Pack of Lies By Daniel Margrain, April 11, 2017
The Gassing Game in Syria: Regime Change and Beyond By Dr. Chandra Muzaffar, April 11, 2017
The Cruel Farce of “Humanitarian Intervention” By Civilisation 3000, April 11, 2017
Afghanistan: A Russian Peace For An American War By Christopher Black, April 11, 2017
BREAKING Video: US Military Deployment at Syrian-Jordanian Border, Military Escalation By South Front, April 11, 2017
Trump’s “Beautiful” Airstrike By Steven Chovanec, April 11, 2017
Declassified CIA Report Exposes 25 Years of U.S. Plans to Destabilize Syria By Arjun Walia, April 11, 2017
US-Canada Relations: Trudeau “Poodles for Empire” By Jim Miles, April 11, 2017
After Trump’s Syria Attack, What Comes Next? By Rep. Ron Paul, April 11, 2017
Trump’s Bombing of Syria: Continuation of a Policy Which Started Only 3 Years After Syria Became an Independent Nation … When Trump Was 2 Years Old By Washington's Blog, April 11, 2017
Scenarios of Dramatic Political Change: Ouster of the Syrian President, A Longstanding CIA Project By Global Research News, April 10, 2017
Wag The Dog — How Al Qaeda Played Donald Trump And The American Media By Scott Ritter, April 10, 2017
H. R. McMaster Manipulating Intelligence Reports to Trump, Wants 150,000 Ground Soldiers in Syria By Mike Cernovich, April 10, 2017
The “Chemical Attack” and the Khan Sheikoun Show – A New President Proudly Presented By “Trump Productions” By Moon of Alabama, April 10, 2017
Luring Trump into Mideast Wars By Daniel Lazare, April 10, 2017
The US Missile Attack Against Syrian Targets: Statement of the World Peace Council By World Peace Council, April 10, 2017
The West and Its Allies Seek to Install the “Black Flag of Terrorism” Over Syria By Mark Taliano, April 10, 2017
Chemical Attack in Idlib – Duplication of Scenario in Eastern Ghouta By Mariam al-Hijab, April 10, 2017
Trump, Saudi Arabia and the War on Yemen By Timothy Alexander Guzman, April 10, 2017
When America’s “Progressives” Pay Lip Service to Imperialism. The Anti-War Movement is Dead By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, April 09, 2017
BREAKING: Dramatic Military Escalation in Syria By Sophie Mangal, April 09, 2017
Trump Strikes Syria By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, April 09, 2017
US Threatens More Strikes After Cruise Missiles Hit Syria By Bill Van Auken, April 09, 2017
In the Wake of US Airstrikes, A Message to President Trump From Homs, Syria… By Janice Kortkamp, April 08, 2017
Donald Trump Is An International Law Breaker By Colonel W. Patrick Lang, April 08, 2017
Afghanistan in Ruins: ‘Small’ Western Propaganda Lies, Huge Impact By Andre Vltchek, April 08, 2017
What’s Behind the Terrorist Attack in Sweden? By Prof. Marcello Ferrada de Noli, April 08, 2017
Trump Bombs Syria –and Obliterates His Anti-Interventionist Promises By Ghada Chehade, April 08, 2017
“The Civilized World” Strikes Again. Trump, A Complete Puppet of the Military Industrial Complex By Jim Miles, April 08, 2017
Syria: Trump May Just have Started World War III By Peter Koenig, April 08, 2017
Syria: New U.S. Airstrike Support “Request Scheme” For Al-Qaeda By Moon of Alabama, April 08, 2017
Trump Has Surrendered; Will Putin Be The Next To Surrender? The Chemical Attack is a Washington Orchestrated Event By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, April 07, 2017