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.
Refugee Crisis: EU Cites Missing Libyan Navy It Destroyed in 2011 By Tony Cartalucci, March 01, 2016
US, China and Ultra-Low Oil Prices By Dr. Dan Steinbock, March 01, 2016
War on Syria: Gap Between US-NATO Propaganda Claims and “The Reality on the Ground” By South Front, March 01, 2016
Miss Canada Finalist Boycotts Israel By Julie Lévesque, March 01, 2016
Why an Israeli Newspaper Wanted to ‘Flatten’ a City of Millions … Beirut By Asa Winstanley, February 29, 2016
US-backed Proxies Use Ceasefire in Syria to ‘Regroup, Rearm and Prepare’ By Sputnik, February 29, 2016
Afghanistan, Mineral Resources and the TAPI Natural Gas Pipeline: The Driving Force Behind the War? By Bill Distler, February 29, 2016
Israel’s Extrajudicial Killings of Palestinians By Stephen Lendman, February 29, 2016
Bombshell: Russian Military Reveals Details of ISIS-Daesh Funding, Turkey’s Role in Supporting the Terrorists, Complete Transcript, Videos, Documents By SyrianFreePress, February 28, 2016
Voices from Syria: Bashar al Assad is Essential for Syria’s Unity and Security By Revd Andrew Ashdown, February 28, 2016
Israel ‘Opens Dams’ Deliberately Flooding Gaza Strip near Deir Al Balah By Maan News Agency, February 28, 2016
Russia’s Military Operations in Syria. Quiet Work Behind the Scenes By J. Hawk, Daniel Deiss, and Edwin Watson, February 27, 2016
Voices from Syria: Syria’s Secularism and Pluralism Cannot Survive without President Bashar al Assad By Revd Andrew Ashdown, February 27, 2016
Morocco, Western Sahara and The Polisario Front: People Tortured and Murdered By Ahamed Fal and Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey, February 27, 2016
Is the Truce in Syria A Deceitful Neocon Strategy to Launch a Pro-Terrorist Arab Coalition Invasion? By Joachim Hagopian, February 27, 2016
Syria: UN Humanitarian Aid “Accidentally” Lands in ISIS-Controlled Territory in Deir Ezzor By Alalam, February 26, 2016
Why Syrians Support President Bashar al Assad By Steven Sahiounie, February 26, 2016
Voices from Syria: Reports from Inside Syria By Revd Andrew Ashdown, February 26, 2016
Assad Adviser: West’s “Moderate Rebels” are the “only opposition in the world who are agents of foreign countries” By Brandon Turbeville, February 26, 2016
US Bombs ISIS in Libya, US and Allies Support ISIS in Libya By Abayomi Azikiwe, February 26, 2016
Draft UN Security Council Resolution Mandates Ceasefire in Syria By Stephen Lendman, February 26, 2016
The War on Yemen: Britain Targeted by EU Arms Embargo for Selling Weapons to Saudi Arabia By Felicity Arbuthnot, February 26, 2016
Video: Strategic Aleppo Supply Line held by the Islamic State (ISIS). The Syrian Arab Army’s Counter-offensive By South Front, February 26, 2016
Syria: A First Major Win Due To The Cessation of Hostilities Agreement By Moon of Alabama, February 26, 2016
The Russian-American Agreement on Syria? By The Saker, February 26, 2016
Israel Accused of Trickery to Snatch Palestinian Refugee Lands By Jonathan Cook, February 26, 2016
Sticking Point In Syria Truce: Washington’s Support for Al Qaeda By Bill Van Auken, February 26, 2016
How the US Helps Al Qaeda in Yemen By Jonathan Marshall, February 26, 2016
“Color Revolutions” and “Net-Centric Warfare”: Geopolitical Struggles and the “Functioning of Networks” By Dr. Vladimir Prav, February 26, 2016
The West’s Wars, Domestic Storms: Fascists, Terrorists and “Multiculturalism” By Tony Cartalucci, February 26, 2016
EU Parliament Adopts Resolution Calling for Arms Embargo Against Saudi Arabia Over Yemen By RT, February 25, 2016
US-Led Foreign Support Lets ISIS Thrive. Turkish Companies Involved in the Supply Chain By Stephen Lendman, February 25, 2016
Saudi Arabia Deploys Combat Aircraft to Turkey By Brian Kalman and Edwin Watson, February 25, 2016
Western ‘Nation-building’: John Kerry Says If Ceasefire Fails He May Partition Syria By Mark Nicholas, February 25, 2016
DNA Evidence Debunks Turkey’s Claims Over Ankara Terror Blast Culprit By Press TV, February 25, 2016
Israel’s Ethnic Cleansing of its Parliament By Jonathan Cook, February 25, 2016
Regime Change in Ankara? More Likely Than You Think By Mike Whitney, February 25, 2016
Syrian Arab Army (SAA) Implements “A Big Operational Trap for ISIS” By South Front, February 24, 2016
Balkanizing the Middle East: The REAL Goal of America and Israel: Shatter Syria and Iraq Into “Many Small Pieces” By Washington's Blog, February 24, 2016
On Syria: Thank you, Russia! By Stephen Kinzer, February 24, 2016
United States Bombs Compound in Northwest Libya, Over 40 Reported Killed By Abayomi Azikiwe, February 24, 2016
America Is In A Proxy War With Itself In Syria By Mike Giglio, February 24, 2016
Canada: Toward Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against Israeli Apartheid. McGill University By Dan MacFadden, February 24, 2016
Russian warplanes | © Ministry of defence of the Russian Federation
Russians Ride Fast. Russia’s Victory in Syria By Israel Shamir, February 24, 2016
US, Britain and Canada Endorse Anti-BDS Measures. One Sided Support for Israel By Stephen Lendman, February 24, 2016
There will be No Nuclear War over Syria and Oil By F. William Engdahl, February 24, 2016
Iran vs. Saudi Arabia: Gallup Poll Shows Americans Prefer Terrorist Nations Over Iran. Why? By Eric Zuesse, February 24, 2016
Video: Strategic Implications of the Syria Ceasefire By South Front, February 24, 2016
Images: Libya's so-called freedom-fighting "moderates" literally just repainted their trucks after NATO's 2011 intervention, becoming ISIS' Libyan branch. The US now finds itself justifying yet another military intervention in Libya to fight the very terrorists it helped arm and put into power in 2011.
The Islamic State (ISIS), an Instrument of Destruction: Libya’s Growing Crisis Primed for Hostile ‘Regime Change’ Again By Randy Johnson, February 24, 2016
Fallujah and Ramadah: Ugly Scars of War and Destruction By RT, February 24, 2016
“Israel is Crumbling under Your Watch …The State’s Social Fabric is being Torn Apart”. Open Letter to Prime Minister Netanyahu By Prof. Alon Ben-Meir, February 24, 2016
Israel is on the Brink of a Tyranny of the Majority By Jonathan Cook, February 23, 2016
Video: Vladimir Putin on the Ceasefire in Syria: “I Have Just held a Phone Conversation with President Barack Obama” By Pres. Vladimir Putin, February 23, 2016
Syria: Does This “Cessation Of Hostilities” Allow Attacks On Jaish al-Fatah? By Moon of Alabama, February 23, 2016
“Je Suis Homs”: UN Security Council Silence on Homs, Damascus Terror Attacks, Who Was Behind Them? The International Community’s Double Standards By Stephen Lendman, February 23, 2016
Opium in Afghanistan: How a Pink Flower Defeated the World’s Sole Superpower By Prof Alfred McCoy, February 23, 2016
“Dirty Players in Geopolitics”: Letter to “Doctors Without Borders” (MSF) By Ronald Thomas West, February 23, 2016
The War in Syria Will Become a Shameful Page in the History of the U.S Media By Fort Russ, February 23, 2016
US-Russia Negotiated “Cessation of Hostilities” in Syria: “Dead-on-Arrival” By Stephen Lendman, February 23, 2016
Video: Syrian Arab Army (SAA) Liberates Al-Safira Plains. Zakiyah Still Under ISIS Control By South Front, February 22, 2016
President Erdogan: “Turkey has Every Right to Conduct Military Operations in Syria”, to Protect Itself against Terrorists By RT, February 22, 2016
VIDEO: At Least 34 Killed, Dozens Injured In Double Extremist Attack In Homs, Syria By RT, February 22, 2016
Damascus, Homs: Who Is Going to Ask Syria’s “Moderate Terrorists” to Stop Bombing? By Afraa Dagher, February 22, 2016
Saudi Foreign Minister: ‘I Don’t Think World War III Is Going To Happen in Syria’ By Adel Al-Jubeir, February 22, 2016
Israel Torturing Palestinian Journalist Muhammad al-Qiq to Death By Stephen Lendman, February 22, 2016
Canada Pledges Over $1 Billion To Ongoing Fight In Syria and Iraq By Dan Dicks, February 22, 2016
Thousands of “Child Refugees” to Britain Deported to Afghanistan and Iraq. Report By Maeve McClenaghan, February 22, 2016
Syrian Hospital Strikes and the Unexpected War Criminals By Tony Cartalucci, February 22, 2016
Iraq: US, UK Fabricated WMD Threat – Created the Reality By Felicity Arbuthnot, February 22, 2016
“Al Qaeda R Us”: John McCain’s “Moderate Rebels” in Syria are ISIS By Patrick Henningsen, February 21, 2016
Bloody Sunday in Syria’s Damascus, Homs. By Syria Report, February 21, 2016
Why Russia is Serious about Fighting Terrorism and the US Isn’t. America Protects Al Qaeda and ISIS By Maram Susli, February 21, 2016
Syria's President Bashar al-Assad © SANA / Reuters
Bashar al-Assad Interview: “Eighty Countries Support the Terrorists in Syria” By Bashar al Assad, February 21, 2016
Reform Judaism and the Challenge of Zionism By Prof. Yakov M. Rabkin, February 21, 2016
New US Syria Strategy Aims to Con Russia By Stephen Lendman, February 21, 2016
Russia Calls UN Security Council Meeting to Prevent Turkey’s Invasion of Syria. “A ‘Distraction’, or a Genuine Attempt to Prevent World War III?” By Stuart Hooper, February 21, 2016
Syrian Army Completes East Aleppo Cauldron: 800 ISIS Fighters Trapped. Nowhere to Run, Nowhere to Hide By Russia Insider, February 21, 2016
Political Zionism’s Damaging Impact on Jewish Communities Worldwide By Anthony Bellchambers, February 21, 2016
Russia’s Air Campaign in Syria Has Changed the Course of History By J. Hawk, Daniel Deiss, and Edwin Watson, February 21, 2016
Week Nineteen of the Russian Intervention in Syria: Tense Confrontation between Turkey and Russia By The Saker, February 21, 2016