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.
Macedonian Government Cracks Down on Refugees By Markus Salzmann, August 25, 2015
Lebanon’s Future Is on the Line, and It Directly Affects Syria By Andrew Korybko, August 25, 2015
The Infamous Balfour Declaration: Palestinian Legal Action against Britain in Egyptian Court By Emir Nader, August 25, 2015
The Migration Crisis: Victims of Western Wars Forced to Flee Their Countries By Amari Roos, August 25, 2015
Unrest in Arabia: What is Behind the Saudi War on Yemen? By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya, August 24, 2015
How “Liberalism” Creates Islam as its Enemy By Yasmin Nair, August 24, 2015
Russian Army Engages in Syria, Supplies Weapons, Advisors and Intelligence By Thierry Meyssan, August 24, 2015
U.S. Provides Cover for Use of Banned Weapons in Yemen By Thalif Deen, August 24, 2015
Religious Eugenics: Saudi Arabia’s Frightening New Movement in the Middle East By Catherine Shakdam, August 24, 2015
Israeli Army Blocked Netanyahu’s Plans to Attack Iran: Former Defense Minister Ehud Barak By Middle East Eye, August 24, 2015
Palestine, “Dying of Thirst”. The Drought is Deliberately Inflicted by Israel By Laith Shakir, August 24, 2015
Syrian Army Shoots Down Israeli Fighter Jet over Quneitra By Fars News Agency, August 23, 2015
Famine Stalks Yemen. “Growing Catastrophic Food Crisis” By Stephen Lendman, August 23, 2015
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Syria Shoots Down Israeli Warplane F-16 Bomber, Using Russian S-300 Air Defense System By Ziad Fadel, August 23, 2015
Obama’s “Fake War” against the Islamic State (ISIS). The Islamic State is Protected by the US and its Allies By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, August 23, 2015
Obama’s “Moderate Terrorists”: US Trained and Funded Syrian Rebel Force Division 30 By Yalla La Barra, August 22, 2015
The Infamous Ghouta Chemical Weapons Attack, Two Years on: All Out War on Syria Is Still “The Main Course for US” By Eric Draitser, August 22, 2015
Pentagon Doctrine: “War is Peace”. “Dropping Nuclear Bombs on the Middle East Will Bring Peace” By Timothy Alexander Guzman, August 22, 2015
Syria: The Douma Market Attack outside Damascus: Another Fabricated Pretext for US-NATO Military Intervention? By Eric Draitser, August 21, 2015
Hamas Rejects Tony Blair’s Offer of A UK Visit for Gaza Negotiations By David Hearst, August 21, 2015
Turkey is Looting and Destroying Aleppo, Syrian Industrialists Seek International Justice By Fehim Taştekin, August 21, 2015
Israel Bombs Syria. Is This A Prelude towards a Full Scale War? By Stephen Lendman, August 21, 2015
Barack Obama: The Nobel Peace Prize Winner Who Bombed Seven Countries By Mint Press, August 21, 2015
Porter Goss – from CIA Director to Turkey’s Advisor and Lobbyist By Harut Sassounian, August 21, 2015
Museum In Palestine To Open On Nakba Day 2016 By Palestinian Museum, August 21, 2015
Beheaded Syrian Scholar Refused to Lead ISIS Terrorists to Hidden Palmyra Antiquities By Kareem Shaheen and Ian Black, August 20, 2015
Video: Israelis Celebrate Child Slaughter Outside Hunger Striker’s Hospital By The Electronic Intifada, August 20, 2015
Did Iranian Weapons Kill Americans? Another Phony Argument against a Deal with Iran By Philip Giraldi, August 20, 2015
Yemen Faces Humanitarian Crisis as US-backed Assault Continues By Niles Williamson, August 20, 2015
The World After The Washington-Teheran Agreement By Thierry Meyssan, August 20, 2015
Insouciance Rules The West. The Insanity of Government Policy By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, August 20, 2015
The BBC “Saving Syria’s Children” Documentary: Staged Events, Fake Video Footage By Robert Stuart, August 20, 2015
ISIS in Afghanistan: Proxy War against Iran and China By Eric Draitser, August 19, 2015
Soft Coup in Iran: Western Allies Coerce Iran Into Capitulating Its Nuclear Program By Prof. Akbar E. Torbat, August 19, 2015
“New Silk Road” and Iran’s Potential as “Energy Disruptor”. Polar Reorientation In the Middle East By Andrew Korybko, August 19, 2015
New York Times Mocks Palestinian Hunger Striker Near Death By Stephen Lendman, August 19, 2015
Israeli President Shimon Peres (R) shakes hand with Tony Blair, Special Envoy of the Quartet on the Middle East, at the start of their meeting to push for an end to the violence around Gaza, at the presidential compound in Jerusalem on November 19, 2012. AFP PHOTO/GALI TIBBON
The Corporate Funding of Tony Blair, Illegal Israeli Settlements and Islamophobia By Sarah Marusek and Prof. David Miller, August 19, 2015
Syria: Palmyra Archaeology Researcher Beheaded by ISIS. Who Was Behind this Criminal Act? By Syrian Arab Republic - Minister of Culture, August 19, 2015
Outrage at Israeli Plan to Build on Historic Muslim Cemetery By Jonathan Cook, August 19, 2015
Gaza-Israel Negotiations to Be Mediated by Renowned War Criminal Tony Blair By PNN, August 18, 2015
Are the US and its Allies Contemplating Another Bombing Campaign against Libya? By Abayomi Azikiwe, August 18, 2015
Egyptian Military Regime Adopts Draconian “Anti-terrorism” Legislation By Johannes Stern, August 18, 2015
Iraq Chilcot Inquiry: Complete Whitewash of the “Tony Blair Regime”? Ongoing Criminality of Her Majesty’s Government, By Felicity Arbuthnot, August 18, 2015
Netanyahu, the Nuclear Zionist Committed to “A Greater Israel” Threatens the UN By Anthony Bellchambers, August 18, 2015
Israel Planning Ground Operations in Syria? US-NATO-Israel Plans to Balkanize Syria, Redraw the Map of the Middle East By Stephen Lendman, August 17, 2015
Neocons to Americans: Trust Us Again. “Marching in Lockstep with Israeli Hardliners against Iran” By Robert Parry, August 17, 2015
Pentagon Trains “Moderate” Syrian Rebel Army. $500 Million to Train 60 Rebels. Where Did the Money Go? By Joel Veldkamp, August 17, 2015
Polar Reorientation In the Middle East. The Russia-Saudi Relationship By Andrew Korybko, August 17, 2015
Longtime Iraq War Opponent Jeremy Corbyn Has War Criminal Tony Blair Running Scared By Lindsey German, August 16, 2015
US-Iran Relations: Towards a Polar Reorientation In the Middle East? By Andrew Korybko, August 16, 2015
The Iran Deal: A Triumph of Irrationality By Prof. Yakov M. Rabkin, August 16, 2015
U.S. Vs. Iraq: 25 Years and Counting. Who Triggered the 1991 Gulf War? By Mickey Z, August 16, 2015
Why Israel Is So Concerned About Jeremy Corbyn? Reinstatement of the “Law on Universal Jurisdiction” By TruePolitica, August 16, 2015
News Headlines: Pentagon Guidelines Regarding Journalists, The Iran Nuclear Deal, Death of Palestinian Toddler By Citizens for Legitimate Government, August 15, 2015
Palestinian Political Prisoners Protest Israeli Oppression By Stephen Lendman, August 15, 2015
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The “New Thirty Years War” in the Middle East: A Western Policy of Chaos? By Steven MacMillan, August 15, 2015
The War in Donbass. Kiev Deploys Tanks and Rocket Launchers, Recent Developments in Iraq and Palestine By South Front, August 14, 2015
US Government “Protection” of Al-Qaeda Terrorists and the US-Saudi “Black Hole” By Prof Peter Dale Scott, August 14, 2015
The Truth From Inside Syria’s “Terrorist Underworld” By Vanessa Beeley, August 14, 2015
Syria: Major Powers Intensify Diplomatic Maneuvering over Fate of Assad Government By Thomas Gaist, August 14, 2015
Infant Mortality Soars in Gaza after Eight Years of Israeli Siege By Maureen Clare Murphy, August 14, 2015
The Refugees Are Coming! By Andre Vltchek, August 14, 2015
Meet the “Moderates” the U.S. is Supporting in Syria: They’re Al-Qaeda By Eric Zuesse, August 14, 2015
Can Holocaust Compensation Agreements Be a Model for Nakba Reparations to Palestinians? By Dr. Naomi Wolf, August 14, 2015
The US Doesn’t Want to Stop The Islamic State (ISIL) – Only Exploit them for Other Means By Steven Chovanec, August 14, 2015
The 1915−1916 Armenian Genocide: An Ideology, Course and Consequences By Dr. Vladislav B. Sotirović, August 13, 2015
Obama Took “Willful Decision” to Support the Islamic State (ISIS): Former US Intelligence Chief By Christopher Black, August 13, 2015
Jewish Terror Slow-Growing “Cancer” in Israel. “Acute Deficiency of Leadership”. Former Shin Bet Head By Akiva Eldar, August 13, 2015
From Bush to Obama: The Iran Gambit II. “Washington Strives towards Regional and World Subjugation” By Peter Koenig, August 13, 2015
Tony Blair: Towards A Citizen’s Arrest of a Renowned War Criminal? By Shenali D Waduge, August 13, 2015
How Global Real Estate Giant Profits from Stolen Palestinian Land By Ben Norton, August 13, 2015
Defense Contractors Increase Lobbying Budgets As US-Led ISIS Strikes Kill Civilians By John Vibes, August 13, 2015
Israel’s Financial Sector Prepares for the BDS Tsunami By Connie Hackbarth, August 13, 2015
Visas for Al Qaeda: CIA Handouts That Rocked The World By J. Michael Springmann, August 13, 2015
The Centerpiece of US Foreign Policy Struggle: The 52 Presidents of the Major American Jewish Organizations and the US-Iran Nuclear Agreement By Prof. James Petras, August 12, 2015
Israeli Terror and “Justice”: Palestinian Family Victimized by Immolation Ineligible for Compensation By Stephen Lendman, August 12, 2015
Strategic Scenarios Surrounding Prolonged Kurdish Insurgency in Turkey, Part II By Andrew Korybko, August 12, 2015
Strategic Scenarios Surrounding Prolonged Kurdish Insurgency in Turkey By Andrew Korybko, August 11, 2015
Handout photo shows Saadi Gaddafi, son of Muammar Gaddafi, inside a prison in Tripoli
Torture and Show Trials Are Common in Neo-Colonial Libya By Abayomi Azikiwe, August 11, 2015
Gaza Flotilla Activists to Sue Israel at International Criminal Court (ICC) By Mint Press, August 11, 2015