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.
Unprecedented Human Suffering in Yemen. Evidence of US-Saudi War Crimes Confirmed by ICRC By Stephen Lendman, July 28, 2015
The March to War: Fighting ISIL is a Smokescreen for US Mobilization against Syria, Iran By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya, July 28, 2015
Turkey’s Call For “Safe Zones” In Syria Are Based On Problem Turkey Helped Create By Brandon Turbeville, July 28, 2015
Israeli General Likens Israel’s Attack on Gaza Towers to 9/11 Attack: The Significance of Destroying a ‘Symbol’ By Dan Cohen, July 27, 2015
German Economics Minister Rushes to Exploit Business Opportunities in Iran By Johannes Stern, July 27, 2015
Israel Sees Nazism in Mirror it Mistakes for Window By David Swanson, July 27, 2015
US-backed Saudi Airstrikes in Yemen Kill 120 Civilians in One Night By Thomas Gaist, July 27, 2015
Israel Affirms Palestinian Ownership Of Susiya Village, But Continues With Demolition Plan By IMEMC, July 27, 2015
Criminal Negligence and Arguably the Most Manipulated Congress in U.S. History By Anthony Bellchambers, July 27, 2015
Syria: America’s “Inherent Resolve” to Destroy Another Sovereign Nation. By Felicity Arbuthnot, July 26, 2015
British Arms Sales to Israel in Support of Attacks on Gaza By Ryvka Barnard, July 26, 2015
Israeli Attack on Al-Aqsa Mosque, 10 Wounded By PNN, July 26, 2015
Israel Attacks Islam’s Third Holiest Site By Stephen Lendman, July 26, 2015
“Islamic State” Terrorists and Syria’s Humanitarian Crisis. The City of Aleppo By Vanessa Beeley, July 26, 2015
US To Sell Saudis 355 Missiles to be Used in the War on Yemen By Press TV, July 26, 2015
Saudia Arabian Airstrike Kills 120 Civilians as War in Yemen Rages By Jon Queally, July 26, 2015
Spying on America “Out of Love for Israel”: Jonathan Pollard’s Release Imminent? By Stephen Lendman, July 26, 2015
Iran: War or Privatization: All Out War or “Economic Conquest”? By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, July 26, 2015
Understanding the U.S. War State. “Watching the War Crime Unfold” By Prof. John McMurtry, July 26, 2015
The Iran Deal Reality By Margaret Kimberley, July 25, 2015
Turkey Joins US War in Syria By World Socialist Web Site, July 25, 2015
UN Resolution: Israel the World’s Only Violator of Economic and Social Rights By Mark Tapson, July 25, 2015
Iran’s Neoliberal Outlook: Why President Rouhani’s “Economic Package” is Empty By Prof. Ismael Hossein-Zadeh, July 25, 2015
Turkey Carries Out Airstrikes on Kurdish Militants in Northern Iraq By Sputnik, July 25, 2015
Side-By-Side Coverage of Cuba and Iran Highlights Shift in US Media Villain-Making By John C. O’Day, July 24, 2015
Israeli Military Admits to Supporting Al Qaeda and ISIS in Syria By Washington's Blog, July 24, 2015
The Imperial Designs on Iran By Pepe Escobar, July 24, 2015
Greece’s Syriza Makes Military Deal with Israel that Only US Has Made By Ben Norton, July 24, 2015
Israeli Military Admits to Supporting Syrian Jihadis By Washington's Blog, July 24, 2015
Yemen: The World’s Newest Humanitarian Catastrophe, and How Britain Helped to Create It By David Wearing, July 24, 2015
Iran’s Longstanding US-Inflicted Nightmare By Stephen Lendman, July 24, 2015
US Defense Secretary Visits Iraq as Pentagon Prepares New Offensive in Anbar By Thomas Gaist, July 24, 2015
Israeli Bank Shares Fall After EU Sanctions Threats By Middle East Monitor, July 24, 2015
Phony Claims About Syria Retaining Chemical Weapons By Stephen Lendman, July 24, 2015
George Clooney Paid by Lockheed Martin to Oppose War Profiteering by Africans Disloyal to the U.S. Agenda By David Swanson, July 23, 2015
Iran Is Not The Threat By Miko Peled, July 23, 2015
Israel Exploits Syrian Chaos to Plan Looting of Golan Oil By Paul Fallon, July 23, 2015
American Zionist Campaign against White House in Panic Bid to Kill UN Security Council Deal with Iran By Anthony Bellchambers, July 23, 2015
Syria Government Forces Regain Control over ISIS Held Territories By South Front, July 23, 2015
Anti-Iran Deal Groups Backed by $145 Million By Eli Clifton, July 23, 2015
Imprisonment for Stone-Throwing: Only in Israel By Stephen Lendman, July 23, 2015
Israel’s Endless Misery for Gaza is Backfiring By Jonathan Cook, July 23, 2015
Iran nuclear-free, but U.S. sends A-bombs to Italy By Manlio Dinucci, July 23, 2015
Israel’s Endless Misery for Gaza Is No Policy At All By Jonathan Cook, July 22, 2015
Canada’s Bloody Political Consensus on Israel and Palestine By David Bush, July 22, 2015
Threatened Demolition of Palestinian Village a Practice Run for Full-Scale Ethnic Cleansing By Anthony Bellchambers, July 22, 2015
More Israeli War Crimes: Sole Electricity Plant in Gaza Shuts Down As Fuel Runs Out By Middle East Monitor, July 22, 2015
The Fragile Nuclear Deal: The U.S. “Military Option” and the “No Nukes for Iran” Tour By Timothy Alexander Guzman, July 22, 2015
Palestine: The Nuclear-Armed Occupier versus Children Throwing Stones By Anthony Bellchambers, July 21, 2015
The Global War on Syria: Statement of Palestinians in the Occupied Homeland, Refugee Camps and Diaspora By Global Research News, July 21, 2015
The Geopolitics and Economics of the Iran Nuclear Deal By Eric Draitser, July 21, 2015
Iran Doesn’t Trust US Inspectors–and Shouldn’t By Jim Naureckas, July 21, 2015
The Iran Nuclear Pact and US Imperialism’s Drive for Global Hegemony By Keith Jones, July 21, 2015
New Probe Exposes Horrific Child Abuse by Israeli Forces By Sarah Lazare, July 21, 2015
Obama Simply Switched from One War Crime Which Increases Terrorism to Another By Washington's Blog, July 21, 2015
Propaganda Wave Portends Invasion of Syria By Tony Cartalucci, July 21, 2015
Yemen War Continues From Aden to Sanaa By Abayomi Azikiwe, July 21, 2015
As West Bank Village Faces Extinction, New York Times Looks the Other Way By Barbara Erickson, July 21, 2015
Land Mines in Iran Nuclear Deal. Israel and its Washington Lobby By Stephen Lendman, July 21, 2015
The Real Reasons For the Iran Agreement. Putting More Pressure on Russia By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, July 21, 2015
Israeli-linked SITE Intelligence Involved in Chattanooga Shooting Narrative By James F. Tracy, July 20, 2015
Israeli-Made Air-To-Air Missile May Have Downed MH17 – Report By RT, July 20, 2015
Israel’s War on Palestinian Statehood By Stephen Lendman, July 20, 2015
ISIS Spy Drone “Made in Israel”, Brought Down in Western Iraq By Fars News Agency, July 20, 2015
British Media Uses Fake Video Footage to Accuse Syria’s President of Killing his Own People By Robert Stuart, July 20, 2015
PETITION: New York Times, Washington Post: Provide Sustained Coverage of US-Backed Civilian Deaths in Yemen By FAIR, July 20, 2015
The Iran Nuclear Deal: Triumph for Iran, US Hegemony and Israeli Militarism in Retreat By Sayed Hasan, July 20, 2015
US Neoconservatives: Seeking War to the End of the World By Robert Parry, July 20, 2015
Nuclear Agreement – An Historic Moment for Iran By Sara Flounders, July 20, 2015
Sanctions Were Going to Collapse: The US Was Forced to Negotiate with Iran Because of Changing Global Circumstances By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya, July 20, 2015
Retired US General Admits Military’s Role in Creating ISIS By Carey Wedler, July 19, 2015
Bill Kristol on Iran Deal: ‘Its Munich!’ By Daniel McAdams, July 19, 2015
British Prime Minister Cameron Orders RAF Bombings of Syria without Parliamentary Approval. Commits UK on US TV to War against Islamic State By Eileen Kersey, July 19, 2015
Expansion by Stealth: UK Strikes in Syria By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, July 19, 2015
What Price Democracy When the World Is Dependent upon the Ambition of a Pro-Israel US Senator with Divided Loyalties? By Anthony Bellchambers, July 19, 2015
Britain Covertly Bombing Syria By Stephen Lendman, July 19, 2015
Conservative Government Concealed UK Participation in Syria Air Strikes By Julie Hyland, July 18, 2015
Netanyahu Has A Twitter Meltdown Over Iran Nuclear Deal By Kit O'Connell, July 18, 2015
African Leaders Must Help Continent, Not Sell It Off By Global Research News, July 17, 2015
Is the Iran Nukes Deal Aimed at Crushing Putin? By Mike Whitney, July 17, 2015