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.
Turkey’s Push to Create New Ottoman Empire ‘Blowing Up in its Own Face’ By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya, December 06, 2015
US-NATO Ground Forces, Escalation in Syria Leading to Global War By South Front, December 05, 2015
More than One Thousand Russian Strikes Directed against Terrorist Positions, US Air Base to be Established in Northern Syria By South Front, December 05, 2015
Cameron to Spend Billions Bombing and Then “Reconstructing” Syria, So These Rich People Get Richer By Carlyn Harvey, December 05, 2015
Iraq Demands ‘Immediate’ Withdrawal of Turkish Forces from Its Territory By Middle East Eye, December 05, 2015
US Building Military Airbase in Northeastern Syria By Fars News Agency, December 05, 2015
Obama Ignores Russian Terror Victims, Killed by ISIS By Robert Parry, December 05, 2015
War Propaganda and “ISIS Held Oil Fields”: UK Airstrikes Hit “Obliterated” Syrian Oil Field, Not Hitting “Actual” ISIS Targets By 21st Century Wire, December 05, 2015
Trigger-Happy Angela Merkel Wants ‘Her’ War – Forget the German Constitution By Russia Insider, December 05, 2015
New World Order Agenda: Obama’s Reckless Roadmap to World War III? By Joachim Hagopian, December 05, 2015
Video: Large-Scale Military Operations Against Terrorist by Syrian Government Forces, Cutting ISIS Supply Lines By South Front, December 04, 2015
Egypt: “Before and After the Spring Revolution”. Portraits of “Women Who Fight Back” By Barbara Nimri Aziz, December 04, 2015
Saudi Warplanes Drop Cluster Bombs on Own Soil to Prevent Yemeni Forces’ Advances By Fars News Agency, December 04, 2015
German MP Slams Berlin’s Military Operation in Syria as ‘Lunacy’ By Sputnik, December 04, 2015
US Gives ISIS 45 Minute Warning before Bombs, “Runs out of Ammo” against ISIS Targets By Brandon Turbeville, December 04, 2015
Israel Ministry of Health “Reimbursed for Israeli War Crimes”: Hospital Bills Palestinian Authority for Medical Treatment of Dawabsha Child By International Middle East Media Center, December 04, 2015
Taking On Jihadists without Taking On Racism Is a Lost Battle By Basem Ezbidi, December 04, 2015
Where Does ISIS Get Its Funding? Maybe We Should Ask Our Allies By Claire Bernish, December 04, 2015
Obama Ignores Russian Terror Victims By Robert Parry, December 04, 2015
UK Stages Bombing Raid on Syria Hours after Parliamentary Vote By Robert Stevens, December 04, 2015
Erdogan Blackmails NATO Allies By Mike Whitney, December 04, 2015
Syria. Strategic Agreement leading to a “Permanent Ceasefire” in Homs By South Front, December 03, 2015
Turkey’s Downing of Russia’s Aircraft: Was it Coordinated with the US Joint Chiefs of Staff? By Tony Cartalucci, December 03, 2015
Russia versus NATO’s Gladio 2.0: “Turkish Jihad” from China to Syria By Joe Quinn, December 03, 2015
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“Russia should be Applauded… Our Government is Unwilling to Confront the Terrorist Offensive”: US Congressman Dana Rohrabacher By Dana Rohrabacher, December 03, 2015
The US-Russia Proxy War in Syria By Ray McGovern, December 03, 2015
Britain Launches Naked Aggression on Syria, on the Phoney Pretext of Combating ISIS By Stephen Lendman, December 03, 2015
With US Help, Saudi Arabia Is Obliterating Yemen By Sharif Abdel Kouddous, December 03, 2015
International day of Solidarity with Palestine: Looking Back, Looking Ahead By International Movement for a Just World, December 03, 2015
The Bizarre Explanation For Why The U.S. Has Avoided Bombing ISIS Oil Wells By Michael Snyder, December 03, 2015
As the EU helps Sustain Israel’s Illegal Settlements, NGOs urged to Cut Trading Links By Anthony Bellchambers, December 03, 2015
Bombshell: The Turkish Assault on Russia’s SU-24 was Guided by the US Air Force By Peter Koenig, December 03, 2015
Why ISIS Exists: The Double Game By Joe Giambrone, December 03, 2015
The Real “Terrorist Sympathizers” Want To Wage War On Syria … And Russia By Moon of Alabama, December 03, 2015
Syria President Al-Assad Interview: We Must Protect our Country against Terrorists “Supported by Regional Powers and the West” By Bashar al Assad, December 03, 2015
Putin’s Revenge? The Fight for the Border By Mike Whitney, December 02, 2015
Imprisoned Al Qaeda Fighters Freed by U.S. Allies to Rejoin Fight Against Assad By Eric Zuesse, December 02, 2015
COP21 Ecological Summit Opens amid War Tensions, with Paris in Lockdown By Stéphane Hugues, December 02, 2015
Maps Reveal Chain of ISIS Oil Smuggling Routes from Syria and Iraq into Turkey. Russian Defense Ministry By RT, December 02, 2015
Video: Redeployment of Ukraine Forces against Donbass, Obama’s “Incremental Islamic State Strategy” By South Front, December 02, 2015
NATO Discussing Ways to Provoke Russia Further By Stephen Lendman, December 02, 2015
Europe’s Blitzkrieg: Germany Now Wants 1,200 Troops Deployed to Fight ISIS in Syria By 21st Century Wire, December 02, 2015
Retreat of Al Qaeda Terrorist Forces in Syria By South Front, December 02, 2015
Turkey – A Study in Geo-Political Malevolence By Adeyinka Makinde, December 02, 2015
Israel Supports ISIS By Stephen Lendman, December 02, 2015
War Propaganda and the Dirty War on Syria By Prof. Tim Anderson, December 02, 2015
Iraqi PM Rejects US “Boots On Ground” As Shiite Militias Pledge To Kill US Soldiers By Zero Hedge, December 02, 2015
Video: Russian Military Reveals Details of ISIS Funding, with the Support of Turkey By RT, December 02, 2015
Yes, Turkey IS Buying Oil from ISIS By Washington's Blog, December 02, 2015
Vladimir Putin: According to Russian Intelligence, ISIS is Delivering “Stolen Oil” to Turkey “On an Industrial Scale” By Stephen Lendman, December 01, 2015
US Casually Ignores ISIS Trucks that Smuggle Oil into Turkey. Considered by US as “Civilian Targets” By Press TV, December 01, 2015
Why the Rise of Fascism is again the Issue By John Pilger, December 01, 2015
The Real Reason for Turkey’s Shoot-down of the Russian Jet By Gareth Porter, December 01, 2015
Has Washington Suspended its Bombings? No US Airstrikes in Syria Since Russia Deployed S-400 Systems By RT, December 01, 2015
Former British Prime Minister Blair listens to a question during an appearance at the 9/11 Memorial Museum in New York REUTERS/Brendan McDermid
7/7 London Bombs “Were Blair’s Bombs”. The War on Syria By John Pilger, November 30, 2015
Erdogan Government Arrests Turkish Generals for Stopping Syria-Bound Trucks “Filled With Arms” By Sputnik, November 30, 2015
‘Oxygen for Jihadists’: ISIS-smuggled Oil Flows through Turkey to International Markets – Iraqi MP By RT, November 30, 2015
Comedy of Errors: “U.S. Backed Rebels” Fight “U.S. Backed Rebels” in Northern Aleppo By Leith Fadel, November 30, 2015
Britain’s “Robust Arms Export Control Regime.” UK Munitions Sales to Saudi Arabia, Bombing Yemen, Crimes against Humanity…. By Felicity Arbuthnot, November 30, 2015
François Hollande, President of France and Vladimir Putin, President of the Russian Federation (CC BY 4.0)
Complete Transcript of Press Conference of Presidents Vladimir Putin and Francois Hollande By Pres. Vladimir Putin and François Hollande, November 29, 2015
“Humanitarian Supplies” for the Islamic State (ISIS): NATO’s Terror Convoys Halted at Syrian Border By Tony Cartalucci, November 29, 2015
History of US-NATO’s “Covert War” on Syria: Daraa March 2011 By Prof. Tim Anderson, November 29, 2015
Video: Geopolitical Review, Ukraine, Syria and the “War on Terrorism” By South Front, November 29, 2015
François Hollande, President of France and Vladimir Putin, President of the Russian Federation (CC BY 4.0)
“Going After the Bad Guys”: The Putin-Hollande Two-Step “Counter-Terrorism Partnership” By Prof. Tim Anderson, November 29, 2015
Turkish Follies, NATO-Russia Standoff, and the Fate of Syria Global Research News Hour Episode 123 By Michael Welch, Prof. Tim Anderson, and Christopher Black, November 29, 2015
The True Face of Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras: Meets up with Netanyahu, Endorses Jerusalem as Israel’s Capital By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, November 28, 2015
Video: Military Advances of Syrian Pro-Government Forces against US-NATO Sponsored ISIS Rebels By South Front, November 28, 2015
Syria and Washington’s ‘New Middle East’ By Prof. Tim Anderson, November 28, 2015
Video: Intensified Russian Bombings Targeting Terrorist Positions throughout Syria By South Front, November 28, 2015
US-Turkey Edging Up to Syrian Border. Pretext to Invade, Establish ISIS “Safe Haven” in Northern Syria? By Tony Cartalucci, November 28, 2015
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Turns Out, Russia Was Right: ISIL Oil is Going to Turkey – German Media By Sputnik, November 28, 2015
Putin Accuses Obama of Leaking Flight Details to Turkey after Russia Releases Video of S-400 SAM Deployment in Syria By Zero Hedge, November 28, 2015
Belgian Physicists Calculate that Everyone Is Lying About the Downed Russian Jet By Alejandro Tauber, November 28, 2015
State Terrorism: Franco-American Style By Prof Michel Chossudovsky and Bonnie Faulkner, November 27, 2015
Media Disinformation: Pentagon Indebted for “The Thanksgiving Turkey” The Washington Post Gave Its Readers By Jim Naureckas, November 27, 2015
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David Cameron and Syria – A Tale of Deception and Hypocrisy By Adeyinka Makinde, November 27, 2015
Israeli Journalists Slam Netanyahu over Closure of Arabic Media Outlets By Haggai Matar, November 27, 2015
The “ISIS Rockefellers”: How Islamic State Oil Flows to Israel By Al-Araby Al-Jadeed, November 27, 2015
“America’s Wish Come True”: US Candidates Who Called for Shooting Down Russian Fighters By Edward Lozansky, November 27, 2015
Paris Attack: New Data on Police Foreknowledge of Terrorists Raises Questions By Kumaran Ira, November 27, 2015