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.
Israeli Tourist Map of Jerusalem Rewrites History. Removes Palestinian Culture from the Map By Charlie Hoyle, April 19, 2016
Yemen: Al-Qaeda’s Expansion. Saudi-Led Military Actions Coordinated with those of AQAP Terrorists By South Front, April 19, 2016
Who is Behind Egypt’s “Gift” of Two Strategic Red Sea Islands to Saudi Arabia By Abayomi Azikiwe, April 19, 2016
Media Pretend Not To Know About British Boots on the Ground in Libya By Craig Murray, April 19, 2016
Crimes against Humanity: Israel Ambulance Paramedics Withhold Treatment to Wounded Palestinians By Jonathan Cook, April 19, 2016
Israel Actively “Cooperates” with the Islamic State and Al Qaeda. Military Aid Channelled into Syria out of the Golan Heights By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, April 19, 2016
Video: Syrian Military Operation in Aleppo City against the ISIS By South Front, April 18, 2016
Sanders and Clinton: Palestinian Defender vs. Israel Apologist By Prof. Marjorie Cohn, April 18, 2016
Live from Damascus: The Syrian Election Results By Ken Stone, April 18, 2016
The Grim Conditions of Jordan’s Immigration Detention Camps. Blatant Human Rights Violations By Siraj Davis, April 18, 2016
Syrian Parliamentary Elections 2016: National Assembly Dominated by Sunni, Large Representation of Women By Ziad Fadel, April 18, 2016
Saudi Royals Supported Al Qaeda, Did They Finance the 9/11 Attacks? Saudi King and Princes Blackmail U.S. Government… By Eric Zuesse, April 17, 2016
Syrian 2016 Elections Defy US and NATO “Regime Change” Agenda By Ken Stone, April 16, 2016
My Journey Across the American-Israeli Divide By Jim Miles, April 15, 2016
The ‘Credibility’ Illusion. Iraq, Syria, Ukraine: “Sticking with the Lie” By Robert Parry, April 15, 2016
US, Saudi, Turkey, Discuss Delivering Anti-aircraft Weapons To “Rebels” for Use against Assad, Russia By Brandon Turbeville, April 15, 2016
The Arab Spring: US Black Ops and Subversion By Stuart Jeanne Bramhall and Tony Seed, April 15, 2016
Young Iraqis Overwhelmingly Consider U.S. Their Enemy, Poll Says By Murtaza Hussain, April 15, 2016
The Implosion of the House of Saud By Pepe Escobar, April 15, 2016
Washington’s “Official” Human Rights Report Slams Israel over Extrajudicial Killings, Torture and Racism By Telesur, April 15, 2016
Blood and Money: US Tycoons, Charities and Israel’s Settlements By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, April 15, 2016
Syrian Elections Prove Again That Washington And Its Presstitutes Lie Through Their Teeth By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, April 14, 2016
South Sudan, After Independence: “Post Conflict” Famine and Despair By Antony Loewenstein, April 14, 2016
US-NATO Iraq War Precipitates Starvation in Fallujah By Nazli Tarzi, April 14, 2016
Plan B: CIA Prepares to Arm Syrian “Rebels” with Anti-aircraft Weapons By Bill Van Auken, April 14, 2016
Palestinian Activists File $34.5 Billion Lawsuit against US Corporations and Wealthy Americans Which Support West Bank Settlements By Middle East Monitor, April 13, 2016
Majority of EU Jihadists Recruited in Four Countries: Belgium, UK, France and Germany By Middle East Online, April 13, 2016
Yemen War: Saudi-led Coalition Deploy Light Attack Aircraft and UAVs By South Front, April 13, 2016
“Moderate” FSA and Al Qaeda Militants Repel Syria (SAA) Offensive in Aleppo Province By South Front, April 13, 2016
CIA Prepares to Arm Syrian “Rebels” With Lethal Weapons if Truce Collapses By Sputnik, April 13, 2016
Saudi Arabia: Britain’s Hand in the Making of a “Terror State” By Johnny Gaunt, April 13, 2016
Barack, Hillary and the Libya Crime By Margaret Kimberley, April 13, 2016
Criticizing Nuclear Armed Israel and Its Illegal Settlements Must Not be Construed as Antisemitism By Anthony Bellchambers, April 13, 2016
Crimes against Humanity in Yemen: U.S. and Saudis Causing Hundreds of Thousands of Children to Starve to Death By Washington's Blog, April 12, 2016
Pentagon Supplies the Islamic State Terror Group with Food Aid By Fars News Agency, April 12, 2016
Netanyahu Admits having Ordered Air Strikes against Syria By Press TV, April 12, 2016
Electricity Blackout in Gaza: Power Station Shuts Down, Plunging Palestinians into Darkness By Middle East Eye, April 12, 2016
EU Turkey Deal to Curb Migration By Abayomi Azikiwe, April 11, 2016
Syria: Heavy Fighting between ISIS and Al Nusra By South Front, April 11, 2016
Dangerous Crossroads: “This is Not a New Cold War …. Nobody Will Win World War III” By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, April 11, 2016
Hillary On Iran: Candidate Hillary Supports the Deal. Will President Hillary Invade? By Brandon Turbeville, April 11, 2016
US Deploys B-52s for Bombing in Syria, Iraq By Patrick Martin, April 11, 2016
Demolition Campaign: Israeli Occupation Army Destroys Palestinian Homes in West Bank By The Palestinian Information Center, April 11, 2016
Israel Seeks to Divert Attention from Its Execution of Wounded Palestinian Prisoners By Anthony Bellchambers, April 11, 2016
Israel Rejects 20% Increase in US Aid as “Compensation” for Iran Deal By Middle East Monitor, April 11, 2016
Syria’s 2016 Congressional Elections. “Enthusiasm to Vote in a War-Torn Country” By Prof. Tim Anderson, April 10, 2016
Al Qaeda and ISIS Equipped with Surface-to-Air Missiles, Target Syrian Planes By Sputnik, April 10, 2016
U.S. Plans New Escalation of Iraq War By John Catalinotto, April 10, 2016
9/11 Attack is Under the Spotlight. Secrecy Haunts Obama on Saudi Visit. Iran Accused of Supporting 9/11 Terrorists By parstoday.com, April 10, 2016
US Largest Maritime Exercise in Middle East, Mobilizing 5th Fleet against “Al Qaeda and Daesh” By parstoday.com, April 10, 2016
US-NATO Plans for a New War in Libya By Marianne Arens, April 10, 2016
The US Elections, Syria and the Spectre of International Terrorism Global Research News Hour Episode 137. A Conversation with Webster Tarpley By Michael Welch and Webster G. Tarpley, April 10, 2016
Has the US Found a New Friend in Iraq’s Shiite Militias? By Ali Mamouri, April 09, 2016
Sold to Antique Dealers by the ISIS: Ancient Syrian Treasures Shipped to US By alaraby.co.uk, April 09, 2016
Israel’s Roadmap to Apartheid By Jim Miles, April 09, 2016
Is the U.N. Complicit in Delivering Weapons and Ammo to Al Qaeda in Syria Using UNHCR Trucks? By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, April 09, 2016
Lebanon – Now It Is Being Forced to Collapse By Andre Vltchek, April 09, 2016
U.S. Delivers 3,000 Tons Of Weapons And Ammo To Al-Qaeda and Co. in Syria By Moon of Alabama, April 08, 2016
Video: Strategic ISIS Positions on the Syria-Turkey Border Seized By South Front, April 08, 2016
Terror Bombing in Brussels and Paris: Europe’s “Islamist Legionnaires” Come Home to Fight By Prof. James Petras, April 08, 2016
US War Crimes in Iraq: Fallujah Residents Starving, Murdered, Besieged by US Backed Government Forces and ISIS By Felicity Arbuthnot, April 08, 2016
Syria’s Grand Mufti Claims “Rebels” and Their Sponsor Countries Working with Israel By Brandon Turbeville, April 08, 2016
“Regime Change” and “Neocon Ideologues”: A Media Unmoored from Facts By Robert Parry, April 08, 2016
Anti-Semitism: The Causal Factor That The Media is Afraid to Print By Anthony Bellchambers, April 08, 2016
Counter-Terrorism and the Liberation of Northern Syria By South Front, April 07, 2016
The Liberation of Palmyra: Syria Bloody but Unbowed by Western-backed Terror Campaign By Eva Bartlett, April 07, 2016
Syria: Major SAA Military Counter-terrorism Operation in Aleppo Province, Support of Russian and Iranian Advisers By South Front, April 07, 2016
Why A Kurdish Enclave in Syria Is a Very Bad Idea By Maram Susli, April 07, 2016
Video: The Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict. Geopolitical Standoff between Turkey and Russia? By South Front, April 06, 2016
Washington’s Plan to Partition and Break Up Syria By Zeinab Saleh, April 06, 2016
Western Sahara: Another Misinformed Imperial Analysis By Dr. Fikrejesus Amahazion, April 06, 2016
An Impossible Syrian Victory. The ISIS Defeated “By Our Adversaries” By Barbara Nimri Aziz, April 06, 2016
Video: Israel Has Demolished Every Home in West Bank Bedouin Village Since Start of the Year By Sheren Khalel, April 06, 2016
Are “Panama Papers” an Act of Destabilization by Western Powers? By Brandon Turbeville, April 06, 2016
Climate Change Contributes to Worst Middle East Drought in 900 Years By Jacob Powell, April 06, 2016
Iraq – An Urgent Appeal for the People of Fallujah By Felicity Arbuthnot, April 05, 2016
Heavy Clashes with ISIS, The Liberation of Syria and Iraq By South Front, April 05, 2016
A scene of destruction after an aerial bombing in Azaz, Syria, Aug. 16, 2012. (U.S. government photo)
Bashing Russia for Destroying the ISIS. Portraying Russia’s “Partial Withdrawal” as Retreat and Defeat By Tony Cartalucci, April 05, 2016
Turkey as the Proxy Player in the Destabilization of the Middle East By Rev. Richard Skaff, April 05, 2016
Bystanders look on at the carnage following a suicide car bombing in the Yemeni city of Aden (AFP)
A Complete Year of United States Coordinated War in Yemen By Abayomi Azikiwe, April 05, 2016