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.
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
The So-called German-Turkish Secret Pact could be about 1.5 Million Migrants By Stratediplo, February 20, 2016
US-NATO’s “Moderate Opposition”: An Apocalyptic Vision For Syria By Mnar Muhawesh, February 20, 2016
Experts: Invasion of Syria Could Lead to Nuclear War By Washington's Blog, February 20, 2016
Could a Bomb Blast in Ankara Change the Outcome of the War in Syria? By Mike Whitney, February 20, 2016
United Nations Tacitly Supportive of Syria “Opposition” Terrorists, Humanitarian Aid Withheld, Deliberate Malpractice in Kafarya and Foua By Vanessa Beeley, February 20, 2016
5,000 ISIS Militants Trained in Syria and Iraq Walk Free in Europe – Europol By RT, February 20, 2016
Turkey Refines and Sells Stolen Syrian and Iraqi Oil for ISIS By Stephen Lendman, February 19, 2016
Imminent Turkish Invasion of Syria? Erdogan will not Invade Syria without Washington’s Permission By Stephen Lendman, February 19, 2016
Video: Retreat of Syria Terrorists. Government Forces Gain Full Control of Homs-Damascus Highway By South Front, February 19, 2016
The Ankara Terrorist Blast: False Flag Catastrophe of Convenience? By Ulson Gunnar, February 19, 2016
Can the International Court of Justice Rule on the Competency of the then Minority United Nations, in 1947, to Arbitrarily Partition Palestine? By Anthony Bellchambers, February 19, 2016
British Democracy Is Dead: Long Live The Ethnic Cleansing With Impunity Of The Palestinian People By Apartheid Israel By William Hanna, February 19, 2016
Russia Brokers Humanitarian Aid to Syrian Villages Under Terrorist Siege By Vanessa Beeley, February 19, 2016
Doctors without Borders (MSF) Admits Withholding Syria Hospital Coordinates from Damascus and Moscow By RT, February 19, 2016
Hillary Clinton and The Dogs of War By Nicolas J. S. Davies, February 19, 2016
Waging Endless War From Vietnam to Syria. Kissinger, the Bombardier, How Diplomacy by Air Power Became an All-American Tradition, By Greg Grandin, February 19, 2016
Western Powers Move Closer to New Military Intervention in Libya By Marianne Arens, February 19, 2016
Turkey Escalates War Threats after Terror Attacks By Johannes Stern, February 19, 2016
Obama Lectures Russia on Syrian “Quagmire” By Bill Van Auken, February 18, 2016
Obama’s ‘Moderate’ Syrian Deception By Gareth Porter, February 18, 2016
Washington’s Machiavellian Game in Syria By F. William Engdahl, February 18, 2016
Netanyahu’s Racist Incitement, Dehumanizing “Non-Israelis”, Palestinians Designated as “Wild Beasts” By David Sheen, February 18, 2016
False Flag Terror in Ankara: Turkish PM Accuses Syria “Of Being Directly Responsible”, Accuses Russia of Supporting Kurdish YPG against Turkey By Stephen Lendman, February 18, 2016
Iraqi Kurdistan is Collapsing. Western Propaganda and “Two Parallel Realities” By Andre Vltchek, February 18, 2016
Turkey Has Repeatedly Carried Out False Flag Terror. Government Officials By Washington's Blog, February 18, 2016
Syrian SAA Forces Confront New Alliance of “Opposition” Al Qaeda Militants in Aleppo By South Front, February 17, 2016
The War on Syria, Waiting for “Washington’s Green Light”: “We Want a Ground Operation. … Turkey will Take Part.” By Stephen Lendman, February 17, 2016
Washington Supports the Terrorists in Syria: Obama’s Latest Putin Bashing Shows Desperation By Stephen Lendman, February 17, 2016
Yemen, Forgotten War, Forgotten War Crimes: US Cluster Munitions Used against Civilians By Sheba Rights, February 17, 2016
Greatest Threat to Free Speech in the West: Criminalizing Activism Against Israeli Occupation By Glenn Greenwald, February 17, 2016
US Mercenaries in Yemen: Blackwater Group Abandons Taiz War Front in West Yemen By Leith Fadel, February 17, 2016
Israeli Police Detain American Journalists on Spurious Grounds of “Incitement”. Democracy in Israel is Pure Fantasy By Stephen Lendman, February 17, 2016
Syria: At the Gateway of A Greater War By Tony Cartalucci, February 17, 2016
Five Years on: the US-NATO Destruction of Libya Continues By Alexander Mezyaev, February 17, 2016
Walking Through Aleppo: The US-NATO Sponsored Destruction of Syria’s Cultural Heritage By Sputnik, February 17, 2016
Turkey Pushes for Ground Invasion of Syria By Bill Van Auken, February 17, 2016
America’s Terror War on Syria. The US Role in Supporting the ISIS By Michael Jabara Carley, February 17, 2016
Russian Diplomat Drops a Bombshell: US Expected ISIS to Seize Damascus by October By Alexander Mercouris, February 17, 2016
Closure of Balkan Refugee Route Deepens Rifts in the EU By Martin Kreickenbaum, February 16, 2016
War, Conflict and Economic Development in the Arab World By Dr. Ali Kadri, February 16, 2016
Turkey Comes to Rescue of ISIS Terrorists, Syrian Arab Army (SAA) and Kurdish YPG Target ISIS and Al Nusrah Positions By South Front, February 16, 2016
Collapse of Iraqi Kurdistan By Andre Vltchek, February 16, 2016
Syria – Peace Talks and an Empire Running Amok By Peter Koenig, February 16, 2016
US-Made Cluster Munitions in Yemen used against Civilians By Cluster Munition Coalition, February 16, 2016
Finding the Islamic State a Safe House, Courtesy of US-NATO. “A Salafist Principality in Eastern Syria” By Ulson Gunnar, February 16, 2016
Syrian Army Advances into Raqqa in Major Anti-ISIS Assault By RT, February 16, 2016
The US-NATO Planned Invasion of Syria: Michel Chossudovsky By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, February 16, 2016
The Geopolitics of Oil and Gas Pipelines in the Middle East By South Front, February 16, 2016
The Turkey-Qatar Military Cooperation Agreement: Turkish Military Presence in the Persian Gulf? By Martin Berger, February 15, 2016
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Health, Tax, Yemen: Three UK Ministers, A Rudderless Boat, No Paddle. By Felicity Arbuthnot, February 15, 2016
‘Gross Attack on Democratic Freedoms’: Israel Lobby Influences UK Foreign and Domestic Policies By Anthony Bellchambers, February 15, 2016
The Turkish and Saudi Intervention in Syria. Towards a Broader War By South Front, February 15, 2016
Israeli Arms Company to Train British RAF Aircrew By Middle East Monitor, February 15, 2016
Turkish Shelling Is Direct Support To Terrorist Organizations. Syrian Foreign Ministry By H. Said, February 15, 2016
Iran Will Defend Syria’s Airspace If Damascus Requests. Response to Reports that Turkey and Saudi Arabia Preparing Joint Military Operations on Syrian Soil” By Press TV, February 15, 2016
Syria: US and Israeli Weapons and Ammunition In Possession of Terrorists, Seized by Government Forces By H. Said, February 15, 2016
Saudi Troops into Syria: The “Gates of Hell” Will Be Open in the Coming Months. Three Possible Scenarios By Elijah J. Magnier, February 15, 2016
The US “Plan B” for Syria and the Threat of World War By Bill Van Auken, February 15, 2016
The “Race To Raqqa” Is Quickly Intensifying. “Foreign Armies at Syria’s Borders With the Intent to Invade Syria” By Moon of Alabama, February 15, 2016