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.
The Road to Understanding Syria Goes Through Iraq By Louis Yako, August 07, 2017
Netanyahu in the Dock? Bribery, Fraud and Breach of Trust By Stephen Lendman, August 07, 2017
Italy Sends Warships into Libyan Waters to Block Refugees By Alex Lantier, August 07, 2017
Neocons Leverage Trump-Hate for More Wars By Robert Parry, August 06, 2017
Mosul Massacre Latest in Iraqi Genocide – US Alliance War Crimes By Gideon Polya, August 06, 2017
Gaza: Ten Years of Economic Blockade By Stephen Mccloskey, August 06, 2017
US Sanctions: A “Looney Tunes” Bad Remake, “Irreversible Decline of the US as A Global Power” By F. William Engdahl, August 06, 2017
Staggering Loss of Civilian Life in Raqqa: ‘One Man’s Collateral Damage Is Another Man’s Wife and Children’ By 21st Century Wire, August 06, 2017
Court Throws Out Blackwater Guards’ Sentences for 2007 Baghdad Massacre By Jessica Corbett, August 06, 2017
Video: Is Morocco Being Groomed for Another Arab Spring? By J. Hawk, Daniel Deiss, and Edwin Watson, August 05, 2017
How Mainstream U.S. ‘News’ Media Pump Their Government’s Lies to Deceive the Public By Eric Zuesse, August 05, 2017
Video: Syria Army and US Supported SDF Boost Cooperation, Set Up Joint Operations Room? By South Front, August 05, 2017
Fury at London Theatre Production of Israel’s Notorious Killing of American Rachel Corrie in 2003 By Anthony Bellchambers, August 05, 2017
Is the Expanding U.S. Military Presence in Syria Legal? By Sharmine Narwani, August 05, 2017
Video: The Battle against ISIS. Syrian Forces Enter Strategic Sukhna Town in Homs Province By South Front, August 05, 2017
What is Really Going on in Syria? Extensive US Sponsored War Crimes By Michael Welch and Eva Bartlett, August 04, 2017
The Lie of the 21st Century: How Mainstream Media “Fake News” Led to the U.S. Invasion of Iraq By Timothy Alexander Guzman, August 03, 2017
Putin Should Thank US for Sanctions: Russia and Iran Ink $2.5 Billion Deal By Wade Shepard, August 03, 2017
Mass Palestinian Outpouring Defeats Israeli Land Grab at al-Aqsa Mosque By Joyce Chediac, August 03, 2017
Trump, Israel and the Pursuit of War on Iran: Trump Hopes that Iran Will Violate Nuclear Deal By Timothy Alexander Guzman, August 03, 2017
70 Years On, Palestinians Are Still Locked in the Same Position. “The Right of Return”, The Palestinian Refugee Problem By Rima Najjar, August 03, 2017
Canada’s $15 Billion Arms Deal with Saudi Arabia By Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East, August 02, 2017
Terrorism: How the Israeli State Was Won By Tom Suarez, August 02, 2017
Going after ISIS, Killing Civilians as Military Doctrine By Mark Taliano, August 02, 2017
The Tweet that Is Shaking the War Party By David Stockman, August 02, 2017
Reuters Suggests But Can Not Find “Iran’s New Route to Yemen” By Moon of Alabama, August 02, 2017
Video: Syria SAA Tiger Forces Enter Deiz Ezzor Province By South Front, August 01, 2017
Biological Warfare: US & Saudis Use Cholera to Kill Yemenis By William Boardman, August 01, 2017
“Bush and Cheney: How They Ruined America and the World” By Elizabeth Woodworth, August 01, 2017
Anti-Semitism Is Not the Issue; Palestine Is By Rima Najjar, August 01, 2017
Trump Intel Chief: North Korea Learned From Libya War to “Never” Give Up Nukes By Jon Schwarz, August 01, 2017
U.S. Stealing Syria’s Ancient Artifacts By Shafaqna, August 01, 2017
Turkey, Russia and Interesting New Balkan Geopolitics By F. William Engdahl, August 01, 2017
Video: Syrian Army Repels Large ISIS Counter-attack in Southern Raqqah By South Front, August 01, 2017
War Propaganda, Media Censorship and the “Conspiracy Theory” Meme. Project Censored 2016 By Michael Welch, Abby Martin, Mnar Muhawesh, David Talbot, and Prof Mark Crispin Miller, August 01, 2017
Al Qaeda “Mysteriously” Spreads in Northwest Syria By Tony Cartalucci, July 31, 2017
Syria Calls for Ending US-Led Terror-Bombing, on the Phony Pretext of Combating ISIS By Stephen Lendman, July 31, 2017
North Korea or Iran…Where Will President Trump Attack First? By Rep. Ron Paul, July 31, 2017
Israel-Jordan Crisis Deepens as Jordan Exposes Identity of Shin Bet Killer, Ziv Moyal By Richard Silverstein, July 31, 2017
Libya
NATO’s War and Libya’s Migrant Crisis By True Publica, July 31, 2017
US-Led Bombings, Burning Raqqa… America’s War against Civilians By Laura Gottesdiener, July 30, 2017
Should AIPAC Register as a Foreign Agent? By Philip Giraldi, July 30, 2017
The Middle East Oil Producing Countries, Collapse of Crude Oil Price, Selling the Family Heirlooms? By Marwan Salamah, July 30, 2017
How CIA and Allies Trapped Obama in the Syrian Arms Debacle By Gareth Porter, July 30, 2017
Spreading the Truth and Countering the Lies By Mark Taliano, July 30, 2017
Post-Maidan Ukrainian Anti-Semitism: Tragic “Blowback” Resulting from U.S. Interventionist Foreign Policy? By Adeyinka Makinde, July 29, 2017
Trump Faces Down the CIA and Co-Opts the Pentagon on Syria (for the Time Being) By Glen Ford, July 29, 2017
Video: Islamic State Still Has 20,000 Fighters in Syria and Iraq By South Front, July 29, 2017
Becoming a Refugee By Saad Abdllah, July 29, 2017
US Drones “Kill Women, Children, They Kill Everybody” By Peter Kuznick and Edu Montesanti, July 29, 2017
Syria’s Armed Forces Cut Off ISIS Escape Routes. Large Scale Offensive By Sophie Mangal, July 29, 2017
Say Goodbye to Regime Change in Syria. Phasing Out of CIA “Train and Equip” in Support of “Moderate” Rebels? By Scott Ritter, July 28, 2017
Colonialism and Greed: Trump Considers Afghan War Expansion to Exploit Minerals By Jake Johnson, July 28, 2017
Video: SAA, SDF Divide Spheres of Influence in Eastern Syria By South Front, July 27, 2017
Is the US Trying to Start a Hot War with Russia? By Steven MacMillan, July 27, 2017
The Battle of Raqqa: Washington Bets on The Kurds… By Anna Jaunger, July 27, 2017
The Root Cause of Today’s Antisemitism Is Western Support for the Occupation of Palestine By Anthony Bellchambers, July 27, 2017
NATO’s New Libya Still Burning By Ulson Gunnar, July 27, 2017
Mosul’s Bloodbath: ‘We Killed Everyone – Daesh, Men, Women, Children’ By Middle East Eye, July 27, 2017
Suspension of Military Aid to Al Qaeda? Syria’s Al Nusra, renamed Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham (HTS) Left Without Support By Firas Samuri, July 26, 2017
America’s Militarized Police. Made in Israel? By Philip Giraldi, July 26, 2017
Haunted by the Spectre of a Nazi Past, the German People Cannot Ignore the Crimes Committed by Israel? By William Hanna, July 26, 2017
State Department Lawyers Removing References to ISIS ‘Genocide’ Against Christians, Other Religious Minorities By Susan Crabtree, July 26, 2017
The World’s Largest Humanitarian Crisis Is Basically Being Blacked Out by Western Media By Prof. Vijay Prashad, July 26, 2017
Israel’s Deliberate Trajectory Towards an Escalating Conflict By Anthony Bellchambers, July 26, 2017
Video: Syrian Army Liberated 55 Towns From ISIS-Daesh By South Front, July 26, 2017
U.S. Expands Military Budget – How Will This Affect Syria By Mehmet Ersoy, July 26, 2017
America’s “Train and Equip” Program in Syria: When Was Financing Actually Stopped? By Ollie Richardson, July 26, 2017
Will the CIA Obey a Trump Order to Stop Funding Terrorists? By Rick Sterling and Ann Garrison, July 25, 2017
Video: Syrian Army Made Large Gains against ISIS Terrorists in Raqqah Province By South Front, July 25, 2017
IDF Chief Says Israel Is Becoming Like Nazi Germany, Refuses to Back Down By Matt Agorist, July 24, 2017
Syria Summary – Consolidating the West – Marching East By Moon of Alabama, July 24, 2017
Sanitizing the Killing Fields of Mosul By Stephen Lendman, July 24, 2017
Turkey Has Agreed to Buy Russia’s S-400 Advanced Missile-defense System, Leaving NATO Wondering What’s Next By Defend Democracy Press, July 24, 2017
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres: An Instrument of Neocons By Dimitris Konstantakopoulos, July 24, 2017
The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, July 24, 2017
CARE: Yemen Situation ‘Absolute Shame on Humanity’ By Press TV, July 24, 2017
Corporate Media Largely Silent on Trump’s Civilian Death Toll in Iraq By Adam Johnson, July 23, 2017
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness: Through the Eyes of an Activist for Palestine By Dr. Vacy Vlazna, July 23, 2017
The Extremist Zionist Media Campaign Has Gone Too Far By Prof. Richard Falk, July 23, 2017