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.
Palestine: Relocate all 380,000 Illegal Settlers in the West Bank By Anthony Bellchambers, May 29, 2015
Humanitarian Crisis in Yemen: Civil Society Organizations’ Letter to U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon By Global Research News, May 29, 2015
Behind the Recriminations over the Fall of Ramadi By Bill Van Auken, May 28, 2015
Obama’s Gun-Running Operation: Weapons and Support for “Islamic Terrorists” in Syria and Iraq. “Create Constructive Chaos” and “Redraw the Map of the Middle East” By Julie Lévesque, May 28, 2015
War Crime: Israeli Army Commander Recorded Ordering Attack on Gaza Clinic By Charlotte Silver, May 28, 2015
Illegal Construction on Stolen Palestinian Land: Netanyahu’s Settlement Bloc Boundaries Proposal By Stephen Lendman, May 28, 2015
Ben Gurion’s 1948 Letter: The Ethnic Cleansing Policy and Palestinians “Right of Return” By Jonathan Cook, May 28, 2015
To Beat ISIS, Kick Out the U.S.-led Coalition By Sharmine Narwani, May 28, 2015
Inside the Latest Attacks on Gaza By Justin King, May 28, 2015
Yemen Armed Forces Strike Back against Saudi Aggression, Syrian Army Offensive against ISIL By South Front, May 27, 2015
Israel Wants 50% Increase in US Provided Military Aid. “U.S. Tax Payers Fund Netanyahu’s Killing Machine” By Stephen Lendman, May 27, 2015
Will FIFA, World Football’s Governing Body Suspend Israel By Jonathan Cook, May 27, 2015
The US War on ISIS is a “Complete Failure” By Patrick Henningsen, May 27, 2015
Swedish Politician: US is the True Cause of the Masses of Refugees from the Middle East; Al Qaeda and ISIS Created, Funded, Trained and Armed By the CIA By Global Research News, May 27, 2015
Israeli Soldiers Shoot Children in the Head with Rubber-Coated Bullets By Patrick Strickland, May 27, 2015
Stop Military Intervention in Iraq By BRussells Tribunal and International Anti Occupation Network, May 26, 2015
Turkey Says US Agrees to Provide Air Cover for Anti-Assad “Rebels” in Syria By Niles Williamson, May 26, 2015
ISIS Marches On Damascus: Syria May Soon Be Absorbed Into the Wahhabi Caliphate By Kurt Nimmo, May 26, 2015
US Department of Defense Admits Supporting ISIS, Buffer Zones In Syria By Brandon Turbeville, May 26, 2015
“This Land is Ours,” Says Israel’s Top Diplomat, Citing Religious Texts to Justify Jewish Settlements in the West Bank By Patrick Strickland, May 25, 2015
The Return of History: The Morsi Death Sentence By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, May 25, 2015
America is Behind ISIS: Washington Confesses to Backing “Questionable Actors” in Syria By Tony Cartalucci, May 25, 2015
Corporate Media Doublethink and the Bush-PNAC-9/11-Iraq Connection By James F. Tracy, May 25, 2015
US Stonewalls Middle East Nuclear-free Zone Project, Over Israel’s Nuclear Arsenal By RT, May 24, 2015
Non-Proliferation Talks Fail over Mideast Nuclear-Weapons Free Zone Plan By Global Research News, May 24, 2015
Wahhabis Go Nuclear — Literally. Saudi Arabia’s Bomb? By Pepe Escobar, May 24, 2015
Egypt: Morsi’s Death Sentence. What was the Role of the US? By Jeremy R. Hammond, May 23, 2015
Netanyahu Appoints Hardline Peace Negotiator By Stephen Lendman, May 23, 2015
Ramadi and America’s Fracturing of Iraq By Eric Draitser, May 23, 2015
Economic Crisis in Iran: The Impacts of Sanctions and the Uncertain Outcome of Nuclear Talks By Prof. Ismael Hossein-Zadeh, May 23, 2015
Obama Gives $1.9 Billion in Weapons as Welcome Gift to Israel’s Racist Government By Rania Khalek, May 23, 2015
Defense Intelligence Agency: “Establish a Salafist Principality in Syria”, Facilitate Rise of Islamic State “In Order to Isolate the Syrian Regime” By Brad Hoff, May 22, 2015
Dimona: Israel’s “Little Hiroshima” By Richard Silverstein, May 22, 2015
Countering US-NATO in the Black Sea and Beyond By Eric Draitser, May 22, 2015
Bush And Cheney Lied About Nukes, Al Qaeda In Iraq By Charles Topher, May 21, 2015
US Threatens “Not to Sign” Nuclear Deal with Iran By Press TV, May 21, 2015
Official: Palestinians to Prosecute Israel at ICC on June 25 By Fars News Agency, May 21, 2015
Turkey Arrests Soldiers over Interception of Syria-bound Weapons to Terrorists By Global Research News, May 21, 2015
White House Reveals ‘Boots on Ground’ in Syria, but Media Too Giddy Over Special Ops Porn to Notice By Adam Johnson, May 21, 2015
Opinion: Is Israel America’s Friend? Or America’s Enemy? By Eric Zuesse, May 21, 2015
Freedom Flotilla III Sets Sail Toward Gaza, Carrying Medical Supplies And Solar Panels By Global Research News, May 20, 2015
The Fall of Ramadi and the Criminality of US Imperialism By Bill Van Auken, May 20, 2015
New York Times Coverage Follows Narrative of Israeli State Power By Matt Peppe, May 20, 2015
The “Zionisation of America” By Anthony Bellchambers, May 19, 2015
Saudi Arabia, Upcoming Nuclear Weapons State? With the Blessing of the “International Community”? By RT, May 19, 2015
Benghazi Scandal: Obama Administration Knew Weapons Were Being Sent to Al-Qaeda in Syria, New Documents Show By Judicial Watch, May 19, 2015
US Air Strikes, Shia Militia Deployment Follow Iraqi Military’s Rout in Ramadi By Bill Van Auken, May 19, 2015
Media Coverage of “Jerusalem Day”: Israeli Security Forces Attack Russian Journalists By Stephen Lendman, May 19, 2015
Softball Interviews with Israeli Ministers Breach Impartiality Code, BBC Admits By Amena Saleem, May 19, 2015
The US-Islamic State Dance: One Step Forward and Two Steps Back – By Design By Joachim Hagopian, May 19, 2015
CNN International, Gulf Cooperation Council and the Business of War By Christopher Massie, May 19, 2015
“Non-lethal Crowd Control”: Israeli Forces Chase Five Year-Old Palestinian Child With “Skunk Water” By Maan Independent News Agency, May 19, 2015
Ousted Egyptian President Morsi and 105 Others Given Death Sentences By Abayomi Azikiwe, May 19, 2015
Saudi Announced that Truce Was Non-existent in Yemen. The Fighting is Escalating By Abayomi Azikiwe, May 19, 2015
More Evidence of Israel’s Dirty Role in the Syrian Proxy War By Steven MacMillan, May 18, 2015
A Tale of Two Nakbas. Palestinian Identity and Collective Memory. The War on Syria and Iraq By Eric Draitser, May 18, 2015
The Phony ‘Bad Intel’ Defense on Iraq By Ray McGovern, May 18, 2015
U.S. Hosts Arms Bazaar at White House Arab Summit By Thalif Deen, May 18, 2015
The New York Times Whitewashes Israeli Minister’s Call for Genocide By Ali Abunimah, May 18, 2015
Questions Linger as US Special Ops Claims Credit for Killing ISIS Leader Abu Sayyaf By Brandon Turbeville, May 18, 2015
Will US-NATO Unleash A New War in Libya? By Vladislav Gulevich, May 17, 2015
US-Saudi Blockade: Iran’s Yemen-Bound Aid Ship Enters Gulf of Aden By Press TV, May 17, 2015
Burning Gold: Israel’s Destruction of Jordan Valley Harvests By Global Research News, May 17, 2015
Over Reach of the Financial-Military Complex and the New Multi-Polar World Order By Jim Miles, May 17, 2015
Omar Khadr, Guantanamo, and the “Global War On Terrorism”: Exclusive Interview with Khadr’s Lawyer Dennis Edney Global Research News Hour Episode 104 By Michael Welch and Prof Michel Chossudovsky, May 16, 2015
Despotic Saudi Regime Lobbies to Chair UN Human Rights Council By Stephen Lendman, May 16, 2015
The Iran-Nuclear-Agreement-Review-Act and Nuclear Proliferation in the Middle East By Anthony Bellchambers, May 16, 2015
Raucous Swearing In of Israel’s New Ruling Coalition. “We can only Hope the New Government will not last long.” By Stephen Lendman, May 16, 2015
War in Syria Video: Saudi Arabia Supporting a Hardline Coalition of Islamist Rebels, on Behalf of Washington By South Front, May 16, 2015
Britain’s Reaper Drone Reconnaissance Missions in Iraq and Syria, Fired Strike Missiles By Jack Serle and Abigail Fielding-Smith, May 16, 2015
US Strategy: Bombing Yemen Back to the 19th Century By Stephen Lendman, May 16, 2015
126-year-old Palestinian Recalls Agonies of 1948 ‘Nakba’ By Global Research News, May 15, 2015
Obama Hosts Camp David Summit for Gulf Oil Monarchies By Bill Van Auken, May 15, 2015
“Spreading False Information”: Eight Problems with Amnesty’s Report on Aleppo, Syria By Rick Sterling, May 15, 2015
Mainstream Media Claims Assad Official Arrested for Coup, Proved Wrong Hours Later By Brandon Turbeville, May 15, 2015
US Saudi Attempt to Block Humanitarian Aid to Yemen By Stephen Lendman, May 14, 2015
SYRIA: US-Saudi-Turkey Supported “Army of Conquest” Comprised of “Jihadist” and Al-Qaeda Affiliated Groups By South Front, May 14, 2015
Yemen War Rages On Through First Day of Humanitarian “Cease-fire” By Thomas Gaist, May 14, 2015
US-Iranian Relations: Back to Square One? Washington’s Ultimate Goal is to Destabilize Iran By Stephen Lendman, May 14, 2015
Israel: Geographically, Politically, Economically, Militarily and Ethnically Distinct From Europe By Anthony Bellchambers, May 14, 2015