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.
President Al-Assad to French Delegation: “Terrorist Attacks on Paris Can’t Be Separated from Those of Beirut and Events in Syria” By Mazen Eyon, November 16, 2015
Syrian Army Conquers Marj Al-Sultan Airbase, Break Down Terrorist Rebel Defenses By Fars News Agency, November 16, 2015
Military Escalation in the Middle East: “France Strikes Back” against the Islamic State, Bombs Syria in Retribution for Paris Terrorist Attacks, Deploys Naval Power By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, November 16, 2015
Paris under Attack: Was it a False Flag? A Pretext for NATO to Intervene in Syria and the Middle East? By Peter Koenig, November 15, 2015
Palestine Burns While Parisians Mourn. Israel is Guilty of Premeditated State-sponsored Terrorism By Stephen Lendman, November 15, 2015
Israel Stakes Claim to Golan After Oil Find By Jonathan Cook, November 14, 2015
Israeli Knesset Bill to Deny BDS Activists Visas Passes By Telesur, November 14, 2015
Under the Disguise of The “Battle against Terrorism”: The U.S., Britain and France Support “Al Qaeda in Syria” By Phil Greaves, November 14, 2015
Why is America Protecting the Islamic State (ISIS)? “Why Isn’t the US Bombing ISIS’ Oil Fields”: Turkish Journalist By Sputnik, November 13, 2015
US Warplanes Avoid Bombing ISIS Held Syrian Oil Fields By Stephen Lendman, November 13, 2015
The Emergence of ISIS Terrorist Fundamentalism Traced Back to Bush-Blair Decision to Invade Iraq By Anthony Bellchambers, November 13, 2015
Sophisticated Russian S-400 Air Defense Systems Reportedly Deployed in Syria By Stephen Lendman, November 13, 2015
Lethal Israeli Raid on Hebron Hospital Sparks New Protests By Bill Van Auken, November 13, 2015
The India-Pakistan Confrontation. The Dangers of Nuclear Conflict in South Asia? By South Front, November 12, 2015
Syrian Military Commanders: Winning Back Kuweires Military Airport Prelude to Greater Advances in Aleppo By Fars News Agency, November 12, 2015
Will Obama Give Israel even more American Weapons and Dollars to Kill Palestinians? By Colonel Ann Wright, November 12, 2015
Israel Warplanes Strike near Syria Airport: Report By Press TV, November 12, 2015
Has Israel’s Air Force Joined Obama’s Air Campaign against Syria? Israeli Jets Strike Damascus Targets By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, November 12, 2015
There are No “Moderate Rebels” in Syria: Call For UN Security Council Resolution to Condemn Russia for “Bombing Opposition Forces” in Syria By Kurt Nimmo, November 12, 2015
Report Says Palestinians Being Executed in Cold Blood By Stephen Lendman, November 12, 2015
America versus Russia: Who Are the Real Supporters of International Terrorism? By Viktor Mikhin, November 12, 2015
Who is Supporting ISIS? Iraqi Forces Find Turkish Weapons, Explosives at ISIS Hideouts By Fars News Agency, November 12, 2015
European Union Refuses To Recognise Israeli Sovereignty over Occupied West Bank, Gaza Strip, East Jerusalem, Syrian Golan By Anthony Bellchambers, November 12, 2015
Non-Violent Resistance: A Palestinian Call for “Unarmed Warfare” By Jonathan Cook, November 12, 2015
US-Turkey Invasion Derailed by Syrian Army Triumph, Recapture of Kuweires Military Air Base By Mike Whitney, November 12, 2015
America’s War Economy: Senate Defense Bill Halts Guantanamo Closure, Grants Military Aid to Kiev and Syrian Rebels By RT, November 11, 2015
Ten years on, Iraq Lies in Ruins as New Evidence confirms U.S. used Death Squads to Manufacture ‘Civil War’ By Joe Quinn, November 11, 2015
Reflecting on the Iraq War and the Death of Ahmed Chalabi By Karen Kwiatkowski, November 10, 2015
Will Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Change Canada’s Policy towards the Middle East? By Greg Shupak, November 10, 2015
Syria: The Uprising against President Al-Assad was Engineered in Washington By Eric Zuesse, November 10, 2015
Week Five of Russia’s Intervention in Syria: The Russians Are Digging in By The Saker, November 10, 2015
Neoliberal Water under the Bridge: How Politics and Business Unite in the U.S., Honduras and Israel By Charity Crouse, November 10, 2015
Duplicitous Love Hate Relationship: Obama and Netanyahu Plot Next Moves. Multibillion Dollar Military Aid Package By Stephen Lendman, November 10, 2015
Britain Preparing Potential Military Involvement in Syria as a Means to Regain Grip over Middle East? By Press TV, November 09, 2015
Gazing into the Abyss. Unending Illegal U.S. War-making Is Creating a “Domestic Monster” By Inder Comar, November 09, 2015
No Matter How Well Russian Media Expose Western Lies … By Eric Zuesse, November 09, 2015
Israel Has Murdered 80 Palestinians Since October 1 By Stephen Lendman, November 09, 2015
Early ‘US, UK Intel’ on Sinai Russian Plane Bombing Came From Israel By Jason Ditz, November 09, 2015
Russian and Iranian Military Operations in Support of Syrian Government Forces, Retreat of ISIS and Al-Nusra By South Front, November 09, 2015
Israel Held ‘Largest Ever’ Air Combat Drill Nearby, On Same Day as Russian Sinai Crash By 21st Century Wire, November 09, 2015
Hebron, Image by Wickey-nl (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Israel Terrorizes Hebron Residents. Settlers urge Soldiers to Kill the Palestinians. By Stephen Lendman, November 08, 2015
Doctors Without Borders Releases Horrific Details Of Kunduz Hospital Bombing By U.S. Forces By Kevin Gosztola, November 08, 2015
Binyamin Netanyahu: The 21st century Colonial Face of Ethnic-Cleansing, Goes to US Congress to Demand Yet More Bombs By Anthony Bellchambers, November 08, 2015
Flashback to 1995: The U.S.-Israel-Turkey-Jordan-Egypt Alliance at Prime Minister Rabin’s Funeral By Cem Ertür, November 07, 2015
Turkey Goes to War. Plan to Annex Sovereign Syrian Territory By Mike Whitney, November 07, 2015
Who Downed Russia’s Metrojet Flight 9268? By Justin Raimondo, November 07, 2015
Proxy War Between America and Russia: Pentagon Supplying ISIS Terrorists in Syria with Aircraft Downing Weapons By Stephen Lendman, November 07, 2015
The Iraq War, The Neocons and America’s Chalabi Legacy of Lies By Robert Parry, November 06, 2015
Saudi-UAE Military Coalition Expands into the Horn of Africa By South Front, November 06, 2015
Crimes against Humanity: Arrested Palestinian Children Imprisoned, Tortured By Stephen Lendman, November 06, 2015
The Blood on Obama’s Hands: Kunduz Hospital Attack Designed “to Kill and Destroy” By Bill Van Auken, November 06, 2015
Terrorist Retreat: Syrian Forces Break Through ISIS Frontline. U.S. Airdrops Weapons to Terrorists By South Front, November 06, 2015
The Downed Russian Plane in Sinai: Preliminary Thoughts By Joshua Tartakovsky, November 06, 2015
Fabricated BBC Video: ‘Reports on Aftermath of Syrian School Attack Were Largely Staged’ By Sputnik, November 06, 2015
Dear Fellow Americans: Do You Have Any Idea What’s Being Done In Your Name In Syria? By Washington's Blog, November 06, 2015
US in Syria: Stopping the “Arsonist-Firefighter”, “Openly Arming, Funding and Training Terrorists” By Tony Cartalucci, November 06, 2015
The 2013 East Ghouta Chemical Weapons Attack. Turkey’s Alleged Role in Supplying Toxic Sarin Gas to Syrian Terrorists By Bousla News, November 06, 2015
No Moderate Syrian Rebels Exist By Stephen Lendman, November 06, 2015
In the Shadow of the Downed Russian Passenger Plane: CIA to Provide “Select” Syrian Militants Weapons Capable of Downing Commercial Airliners By Zero Hedge, November 06, 2015
The “War On Terror” Is The Hoax Foundation Of “The Police Spy State” By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, November 06, 2015
In the Wake of Russia’s Metrojet 7K9268 Crash: Stoking Fear of Flying to Russia By Stephen Lendman, November 05, 2015
Israel Harvesting Slain Palestinians’ Organs: Palestine’s UN envoy By Press TV, November 05, 2015
Bomb Planted in Russian Airbus A321 in Egypt Airport. US Officials By Press TV, November 05, 2015
A “Jewish Homeland” is One Thing: “Genocide” Is Another By Anthony Bellchambers, November 05, 2015
What Is ISIS? By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya, November 04, 2015
The ‘Non-lethal’ Chemical Weapon Killing Palestinians By Sheren Khalel, November 04, 2015
Palestine: “New Methods of Resistance” If Israeli Brutal Force Continues By Stephen Lendman, November 04, 2015
25,000-30,000 Foreign Mercenaries in Syria, Fighting for the ISIS By RT, November 04, 2015
Are Russian Aircrafts Being Attacked? By Stephen Lendman, November 04, 2015
US Sponsored Smuggling of Weapons: Iraq Seizes Two Planes of the US-Led Coalition. They Were Carrying Weapons to the Iraqi Kurdistan Region By Fars News Agency, November 04, 2015
US and Israel Conducted “War Games” In the Vicinity of the Russian Plane Crash Location By Sean Adl-Tabatabai, November 04, 2015
Palestine is a War Zone. Israeli State Terror Rages By Stephen Lendman, November 03, 2015
Captured ISIS Leaders in Iraq Confess to Receiving Military and Intelligence Support from the United States By Fars News Agency, November 03, 2015
Syria: Significant Gains of Pro-government Forces, Al Nusra and ISIS Have United Their Military Efforts By South Front, November 03, 2015
Towards a Foreign Imposed “Political Transition” in Syria? The Broader War, US Threats directed against Russia By Peter Koenig, November 03, 2015
Russia, Ukraine, Syria and the Grand Chessboard By Michael Welch and Andrew Korybko, November 03, 2015
Boots on the Ground: What Are the Real Objectives of U.S. Special Forces in Syria? By Ekaterina Blinova, November 03, 2015
America’s Ground War “Against” or “In Support” of The Islamic State? ISIS Supplied Via Turkey, a US Excuse to Seize Syria By Tony Cartalucci, November 03, 2015
Nearly 100,000 Gazans Face Winter in Tents, Animal Shelters By Tasmin news, November 03, 2015
Israeli “Staatspolizei” Carry out Summary Executions in Jerusalem By Anthony Bellchambers, November 03, 2015