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.
U.S. Retreats From Al-Tanf – Gives Up on Occupying South East Syria By Moon of Alabama, June 30, 2017
Washington Has Been at War for 16 Years: Why? By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, June 30, 2017
Divisions Among Gulf Arab States Increases Instability in the Horn of Africa By Abayomi Azikiwe, June 30, 2017
After US-Backed Bombing Sparks Famine in Yemen, US Media Insists ‘US Not the Problem’ By Adam Johnson, June 30, 2017
Why the West Will Not and Cannot Let Syria Live in Peace By Marcus Godwyn, June 29, 2017
Israel’s Illegitimate Tactics Against Palestinian Armed Resistance vs. Legitimate Global Security Concerns By Rima Najjar, June 29, 2017
UAE Crown Prince Asked US to Bomb Al Jazeera, Says 2003 Cable By Alex McDonald, June 29, 2017
Saudi Arabia Is Weakening US Influence in the Middle East By Federico Pieraccini, June 29, 2017
What Will U.S. Ambitions in Syria Lead to? By Anna Jaunger, June 29, 2017
Video: US Launches Hideous Propaganda Campaign to Justify Military Action Against Syria By South Front, June 29, 2017
People in Aleppo Fight with Booby Traps and Deadly Bombs of Militants By Sophie Mangal, June 29, 2017
Rule of Law
Supreme Court Weighs in on Trump’s Travel Ban By Stephen Lendman, June 28, 2017
Video: Qalamoun Shield Forces (QSF): Military Capabilities and Role in Syrian War By South Front, June 28, 2017
Trump’s Syrian Chemical Weapons Claims: A House of Cards By Andre Damon, June 28, 2017
President El-Sisi: Egypt’s Antihero and the Broader Regional Implications By Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich, June 28, 2017
Hersh: Trump Ignored Intel Before Bombing Syria By Seymour M. Hersh and The Real News Network, June 28, 2017
Trump Plays Nuclear ‘Chicken’ with Putin Over Syria By Eric Zuesse, June 28, 2017
Hersh’s New Syria Revelations Buried From View By Jonathan Cook, June 28, 2017
After Getting Busted for Bombing Syria Based on a Lie, Trump Doubles Down … Threatens to Bomb Syria Even Harder for the Same Bogus Reason By Washington's Blog, June 28, 2017
Protecting the Terrorists: US-led Coalition’s ‘Very Dangerous Game’ of Sparing Al-Nusra in Syria – Lavrov By RT News, June 28, 2017
Video: ISIS Launches Surprise Counter-attack in Mosul By South Front, June 28, 2017
White House Says It Will Fake “Chemical Weapon Attack” in Syria By Moon of Alabama, June 27, 2017
Trump Threatens Escalated Aggression on Syria By Stephen Lendman, June 27, 2017
Israel’s Efforts to Hide Palestinians From View No Longer Fools Young American Jews By Jonathan Cook, June 27, 2017
Palestinians Are Seeking Justice in Jerusalem – Not an Abusive Life-long Mate By Rima Najjar, June 27, 2017
Saudis Try Hostage-Taking as Diplomacy By William Boardman, June 27, 2017
Video: Israeli Air Strikes in Support of Al Qaeda Forces in South Western Syria By South Front, June 27, 2017
Are There Any Limits to U.S. Hypocrisy? By Anna Jaunger, June 27, 2017
Trump Has Now Committed Himself to Reversing Obama’s Syria-Policy By Eric Zuesse, June 27, 2017
Ministry of Propaganda and the Fight for Freedom By Mark Taliano, June 27, 2017
Trump Has Been Continuing Obama’s Syria-Policy By Eric Zuesse, June 26, 2017
Trump‘s Red Line By Seymour M. Hersh, June 26, 2017
The Pan-Islamic Option – The West’s Part in the Creation and Development of “Islamist Terrorism” By Adeyinka Makinde, June 26, 2017
The Neoliberal Writing on the Wall: Ontario’s Basic Income Experiment By John Clarke, June 26, 2017
Saudi Arabia Conducts Over 50 Air Raids on Yemen in Just 24 Hours By Geopolitics Alert, June 26, 2017
Intel Behind Trump’s Syria Attack Questioned. Implications for U.S.-Russia By Ray McGovern, June 26, 2017
Injured Terrorists Taken to Israeli Hospitals: Syria By AhlulBayt News Agency, June 26, 2017
Syria: Israeli Airstrikes in Support of al Qaeda By Chris Tomson, June 26, 2017
Israel’s Fire Support for Its Al-Qaeda Mercenaries Started Three Years Ago By Moon of Alabama, June 26, 2017
Airstrikes in Syria: “We Got a Fuckin‘ Problem” By Die Welt, June 25, 2017
Saudi Prince Reveals ‘US Conditions’ for Mohamed Bin Salman to be King By Middle East Monitor, June 25, 2017
Al-Baghdadi’s Death and Islamic State’s Command Structure By Nauman Sadiq, June 25, 2017
Killing a Republic – Kissinger and Cyprus By Dimitris Konstantakopoulos, June 25, 2017
How and Why U.S. Honors and Aids Al Qaeda By Eric Zuesse, June 25, 2017
The NYT Big Lie About US Combating ISIS By Stephen Lendman, June 25, 2017
Macron’s Message: France Has No Evidence of Chemical Weapons’ Usage in Syria By Sophie Mangal, June 25, 2017
New U.S. State Department Syria Covert Operation: ‘The Seven Americans’ By Sophie Mangal, June 25, 2017
The Saudi-Qatar Spat – An Offer to be Refused By Moon of Alabama, June 25, 2017
Caught on Video: Russian Ships, Sub Fire Cruise Missiles at ISIS Targets in Syria By Zero Hedge, June 25, 2017
Afghanistan: The World’s Largest Opium Producer By Stephen Lendman, June 25, 2017
Russia Hacking Allegations Driven By a Serial Liar By Washington's Blog, June 24, 2017
ISIS Leader Al-Baghdadi Killed? By Stephen Lendman, June 24, 2017
The Gatekeepers for Empire? “Independent Media” Failed Coverage of Syria By Michael Welch, Vanessa Beeley, and Daniel Borgstrom, June 24, 2017
They Were ‘Grilled Alive’: US Government Exposed Running Nazi-Like Torture Program in Yemen By Claire Bernish, June 24, 2017
U.S. Torture, a Saudi Coup and ISIS Crimes – “By, With and Through Allies” By Moon of Alabama, June 24, 2017
Video: Syrian Army Advances against ISIS, Regaining More Ground Near Palmyra By South Front, June 24, 2017
Closing Bank Accounts: Israel’s New Policy to Displace Palestinians Out of Jerusalem By Middle East Monitor, June 24, 2017
18 Israeli Fighter Jets Landed in Saudi Arabia to Prevent Coup By AhlulBayt News Agency, June 24, 2017
US Shooting Down of Syrian Jet: “A Huge Act of War”: Analyst By Press TV, June 24, 2017
Persuading Jews Worldwide to Convert to Zionism By Rima Najjar, June 23, 2017
Syria Media Distortions: The Latest Case of US “Stumbling” Into War By Adam Johnson, June 23, 2017
Calling All Muslims: It’s Time for an Anti-imperialist Secular Awareness By Ghada Chehade, June 23, 2017
Smoking Gun Proof that Russia Hacked the Entire World By Washington's Blog, June 23, 2017
US Recklessly Provoking Russia. The Unthinkable Could Happen by Accident or Design By Stephen Lendman, June 23, 2017
US Foreign Policy, Global Hegemony, “Soft Power” and the Geopolitics of Eurasia By Dr. Vladislav B. Sotirović, June 23, 2017
Saudi Arabia vs Qatar: Middle East Controlled-Demolition Plan? By Gilbert Mercier, June 23, 2017
Video: Qatar Crisis: Origins and Consequences By J. Hawk, Daniel Deiss, and Edwin Watson, June 23, 2017
Military Escalations in Syria. Mistakes and Catastrophe? Towards a More Pronounced Conflagration? By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, June 23, 2017
The Assault of Raqqa Is Drowned in Blood By Sophie Mangal, June 23, 2017
‘Declaration of Defeat’: ISIS Destroys Mosul Mosque Where Baghdadi Declared ‘Caliphate’ By Middle East Eye and Felicity Arbuthnot, June 23, 2017
Afghanistan and the Curse of Natural Resources: The Trump Administration Continues America’s Longest War By Timothy Alexander Guzman, June 23, 2017
Empire of Hopelessness: Targets Venezuela and Syria By Hugo Turner, June 23, 2017
Video: War and Peace in Israel / Palestine: A Historical Perspective By Prof. Yakov M. Rabkin, June 23, 2017
Video: ISIS Blows Up Mosul’s Al-Nuri Kabir Mosque By South Front, June 23, 2017
Israel Displaced 67% of Palestinians in 1948 By Middle East Monitor, June 22, 2017
Saudi Power Struggle By Stephen Lendman, June 22, 2017
U.S. Crimes in Syria Can Only Be Stopped by Fear of Responsibility By Anna Jaunger, June 22, 2017
Saudi Arabia, Israel to Establish Economic Relations for First Time: Report By Press TV, June 22, 2017
Video: Syria Government Forces Launch Large Military Operation against Al Qaeda in Daraa By South Front, June 22, 2017
Syria’s White Helmets, Al Qaeda’s Co-Workers : Severed Heads of Syrian Arab Army Soldiers Paraded as Trophies By Vanessa Beeley, June 22, 2017