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.
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
Washington Deplores the Defeat of the ISIS. Accuses Russia and Syria of violating Ceasefire By Stephen Lendman, April 04, 2016
America’s Plan To Break Up Syria Explained By Brandon Turbeville and James Corbett, April 04, 2016
Twenty-five Years Ago: The 1991 Iraq Gulf War, America Bombs the “Highway of Death” By Joyce Chediac, April 04, 2016
Yemen: UN Whitewashing Saudi Coalition War Crimes and International Human Rights Violations By Vanessa Beeley, April 04, 2016
The War on Syria, A Brief History of Modern Syria By Dana Visalli, April 03, 2016
Execution of Young Palestinian Exposes Israel’s Military Culture By Jonathan Cook, April 03, 2016
Will Lebanon Be ‘Handed Over’ to the ISIS? By Andre Vltchek, April 02, 2016
Obama’s Fake Air War on ISIS By Stephen Lendman, April 02, 2016
Bystanders look on at the carnage following a suicide car bombing in the Yemeni city of Aden (AFP)
VIDEO: Yemen’s Forgotten People in a Forgotten War By 21st Century Wire, April 02, 2016
Cleaning Up Hillary’s Libyan Mess By Robert Parry, April 02, 2016
Video: The Liberation of Syria, the Demise of ISIS: Air Raids against Remaining ISIS Positions By South Front, April 02, 2016
The World Cup and Workers’ Human Rights in Qatar. “The Ugly Side of the Beautiful Game” By James M. Dorsey, April 02, 2016
Sharon and Netanyahu: Two Failed Likud Leaders of Political Zionism By Anthony Bellchambers, April 02, 2016
For Israel’s Sake The Israel Lobby Must Be Held To Account. “The Lobby’s Power is a Danger to Israel” By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, April 01, 2016
Expensive Weapons of Mass Destruction: As Saudi and Allies Bombard Yemen, US Clocks up $33 Billion Arms Sales in Eleven Months By Felicity Arbuthnot, April 01, 2016
The Kunduz MSF Hospital Killers Go Free. Pentagon says Hospital “Targeted by Mistake” By Media Lens, April 01, 2016
Syria: How The Palmyra Victory Changes the Narrative By Moon of Alabama, March 31, 2016
No Academic Freedom in Turkey. University Professors Arrested by Erdogan Government By Bianet, March 31, 2016
How Did the Islamic State Capture Raqqa? By Petri Krohn, March 31, 2016
Daesh and Its Looted Antiquities Trade Via Turkey By Sputnik, March 31, 2016
Saudi Arabia War Crimes, Arms and Embargoes By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, March 31, 2016
Intelligence Accounts Raise More Questions on Origins of Brussels, Paris Attacks By Alex Lantier, March 31, 2016
How Israel Makes Money from Blockading Gaza By Ryan Rodrick Beiler, March 31, 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.
Five Years into the Libyan Disaster By Abayomi Azikiwe, March 31, 2016
“He’s Not Dead, Shoot Him In The Head”: Quote from Israeli Medic By IMEMC, March 30, 2016
How Putin’s Leverage Shaped the Syrian Ceasefire By Gareth Porter, March 30, 2016
Syria's President Bashar al-Assad © SANA / Reuters
Interview with President Bashar al-Assad: Terrorism in Syria, Iraq Directly Supported From Turkey, Saudi Arabia By Sputnik, March 30, 2016
Video: The Liberation of Palmyra. Towards the Defeat of ISIS By South Front, March 30, 2016
Israel Minister Calls for “Civil Targeted Killings” of BDS Leaders By Richard Silverstein, March 30, 2016
Israel Grants Illegal Oil Rights inside Syria to Murdoch and Rothschild By Craig Murray, March 30, 2016
Syria: Retreat of Al Nusra and FSA Militants. Kurds Advance on Avaz By South Front, March 30, 2016
Video: Israel’s Public Relations War in the US: The Occupation of the American Mind By Abba Solomon, March 30, 2016
Donald Trump Foreign Policy Team Member Connected to Offshore Gas Drilling in Israel By Steve Horn, March 30, 2016
The “Money Trail” of the Turkey-Daesh Oil Trade By Sputnik, March 30, 2016
Second Syria Fail: U.S. State Dept Spokesman Can’t Answer Question about ISIS vs. Assad in Palmyra By Brandon Turbeville, March 30, 2016
Secret Franco-Turkish Agreement to Create a Pseudo-Turkistan Straddling the Borders of Iraq and Syria By Thierry Meyssan, March 29, 2016
Al Qaeda and the Money Trail: Surviving on the Battlefield in the Information War By Tony Cartalucci, March 29, 2016
Mainstream Media Ignores Greatest Nuclear Threat. “Destructive Power to End Life on Earth” By Stephen Lendman, March 29, 2016
The Syria Campaign Against Daesh Terrorists: After Palmyra, The Next Step is to Secure the Palmyra- Sukhanah-Deir Ezzor Road By South Front, March 29, 2016
John Kerry’s Plan to Balkanize Middle East Countries. The Partition of Syria “if Negotiations Fail” By Maran Susli, March 29, 2016