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.
Deadly Disinformation: War, the Mainstream Media and the Tragic Death of African Refugees By Julie Lévesque, April 28, 2015
AIPAC Sponsored “Fast Track Measures” on Behalf of Israel: Congressional Legislation Targets BDS Initiatives By Stephen Lendman, April 28, 2015
Obama Gave CIA Free Rein for Drone Assassinations in Pakistan By Bill Van Auken, April 28, 2015
Welcome to Where? By Matt Mullins, April 28, 2015
Suicide Mission: Why a War With Iran Will End in Another Defeat for the U.S. Military Machine By Timothy Alexander Guzman, April 28, 2015
Saudis Try Yemen Peace Initiative – For More Than an Hour By William Boardman, April 28, 2015
Imperialist-Backed War Enters Second Month Amid Worsening Humanitarian Crisis. By Abayomi Azikiwe, April 28, 2015
Israeli City Revives Historic Mission to Keep out Arabs By Jonathan Cook, April 28, 2015
Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire: Breaking the Silence on Israel’s Human Rights Abuse of Palestinians to Support Women Human Rights Defenders By Mairead Maguire, April 28, 2015
Voices for Peace, Solidarity with Palestine By Ilan Pappe, April 27, 2015
“Saudi Arabia Teetering on Edge of Collapse”: Top Iran Military By Press TV, April 27, 2015
The Obama Administration Embraces the Saudi War on Yemen By Robert Parry, April 27, 2015
Why Obama Wants to Lift Sanctions on Iran By Mike Whitney, April 27, 2015
Israeli Ban on South African Cabinet Minister Boosts Boycott Campaign By Adri Nieuwhof, April 27, 2015
Al-Qaeda’s Air Force: United States and Saudi Arabia By Brandon Turbeville, April 27, 2015
The War on ISIS is a Farce By T. J. Petrowski, April 27, 2015
Planning Chaos in the Middle East: Destruction of Societies for Foreign Money Control By Prof. John McMurtry, April 27, 2015
Thousands of Saudi Forces Flee Bases. Refuse to Participate in Ground Assault on Yemen, Report By Fars News Agency, April 26, 2015
The US/Saudi Recruited Al Qaeda Terrorists in Yemen By Stephen Lendman, April 26, 2015
Anglo-American Revenge in Iraq: Tariq Aziz, Twelfth Anniversary of a US Travesty of Justice By Felicity Arbuthnot, April 26, 2015
Obama’s Drone Warfare: Assassination Made Routine By Patrick Martin, April 26, 2015
Yemen – The Mainstream Narrative is Grossly Misleading By Jan Oberg, April 26, 2015
Did Saudi Pressure Cause New York Times to Change Its ‘Negative’ Headline? By 21st Century Wire, April 26, 2015
After Nameless Thousands, Can Two Western Hostage Deaths Dent ‘Kill List’ Tactics? By Jon Queally, April 26, 2015
Russia 1,700 – America Zero: Number of Foreign Nationals Evacuated from Yemen By Stephen Lendman, April 25, 2015
Europe’s Feeble Efforts to ‘punish’ Israel By Jonathan Cook, April 25, 2015
Gaza’s Bookstores Struggle By al monitor, April 25, 2015
Double Dealing: Saudi Airstrikes in Yemen Continue After Calling Ceasefire By Shawn Helton, April 25, 2015
Understand the Israeli – Palestinian Apartheid In Eleven Images By Thrival Room, April 25, 2015
“Professors for Israel” try to Shut down Leading Medical Journal The Lancet By Jonathan Cook, April 25, 2015
No Home Rebuilt in Gaza after 2014 Israel War: UNRWA By Press TV, April 25, 2015
Using the Dead: The New York Times Works with Israel to Justify Military Service By Tzvia Thier, April 24, 2015
Obama Urges Saudi Dictator Abdulaziz to Keep Attacking Yemen By Robert Barsocchini, April 24, 2015
Pakistan: Obama Admits US Drone Strike Killed Two Al Qaeda Hostages, a US Professor and an Italian Aid Worker By Patrick Martin, April 24, 2015
The Refugee Crisis: How NATO Kills Africans in the Club Med By Pepe Escobar, April 24, 2015
Yemen’s Shiite Rebels Are Not Iran Proxies: US Intelligence Officials By Joseph Fitsanakis, April 24, 2015
Iraqi Volunteers Find Israeli Weapons in ISIL Position. ISIL Supported by Saudi Arabia and Israel By Fars News Agency, April 23, 2015
Dutch Lawsuit Charges Crimes Against Humanity During Egyptian Massacres By Prof. Marjorie Cohn, April 23, 2015
The US Hand in Libya’s Tragedy By Robert Parry, April 23, 2015
Palestinians Denied Medicines in Prisons Equipped by Anglo-Danish Firm G4S, Report By Charlotte Silver, April 23, 2015
Video: US-Saudi Terror in Yemen: Codenamed “Restoring Hope”. US War Ships in Yemen Waters. Oil Prices Plummet By Global Research News, April 23, 2015
Ousted Egyptian President Mursi Sentenced to 20 Years By Bill Van Auken, April 22, 2015
Sex, Drugs, and Dead Soldiers: What US Africa Command Doesn’t Want You to Know By Nick Turse, April 22, 2015
Syria President Al-Assad Interview: “France Was a Spearhead in Supporting Terrorism…” By Bashar al Assad, April 22, 2015
Iran, United Nations Calls for Ceasefire in Yemen By Abayomi Azikiwe, April 22, 2015
Stagecraft: ISIS Video ‘Execution’ of Ethiopians in Libya Appears Fake By Shawn Helton, April 22, 2015
Even an Israeli Settlement Boycott is Too Little, Too Late By Jonathan Cook, April 22, 2015
Blair Family Impending Corruption Scandal? Tony Blair Faces Pressure Over Role as Middle East Envoy By Global Research News, April 22, 2015
Mass Murder
Report Shows US Invasion, Occupation of Iraq Left One Million Dead By Dahr Jamail, April 22, 2015
VIDEO: Yemen War, “Bombing Not Talking” By South Front, April 21, 2015
Nine US Warships Threaten Yemen By Stephen Lendman, April 21, 2015
US Mainstream Media Delivers Fact-Resistant ‘Group Think’ on Syria By Robert Parry, April 21, 2015
Blood on their Hands: Libya’s Boat Refugees and “Humanitarian” Imperialism By Johannes Stern and Bill Van Auken, April 21, 2015
The Two-State Solution is Racist: We Cannot Liberate Palestine with Colonized Minds By Haidar Eid, April 21, 2015
“Modern Slavery”: French Construction Company Vinci Accused of Labor Violations on Qatar Construction Contracts By Richard Smallteacher, April 21, 2015
Neocon Think Tank Proposes US Proxy Army to Control Syria By Stephen Lendman, April 21, 2015
Worrying Rise of US Weapons Sales Greeted by a Middle East Engulfed in War By Jon Queally, April 20, 2015
US and the Lausanne Negociations: Another Idiotic Plan to Hurt Russia By Mike Whitney, April 20, 2015
‘God Told Me to Do It’: The Dangers of America’s Lunatic Right By Peter Sterry, April 20, 2015
Saudi Blood Money for Bloodletting in Yemen By Stephen Lendman, April 20, 2015
Britain’s Cameron Government Under the Helm of the Conservative Friends of Israel (CFI) By Anthony Bellchambers, April 20, 2015
Russia’s Missile Wall in Iran By Tony Cartalucci, April 19, 2015
The US Will Eventually Bomb Iran As It Bombed Other Countries: William Blum By William Blum, April 19, 2015
Smear Campaign against The Lancet’s “Open Letter” on Crimes against Humanity in Gaza By Global Research News, April 19, 2015
International Aid Agencies Call for Sanctions on Israel By Global Research News, April 19, 2015
World in Crisis, Most Perilous Time in World History: Conversation with Stephen Lendman Global Research News Hour Episode 100 By Michael Welch and Stephen Lendman, April 19, 2015
President al-Assad Interview: “If support to Terrorism continues, al-Qaeda will be the future of Europe and the Region” By Bashar al Assad, April 18, 2015
Syrian Rebels Caught in ‘False-Flag’ Kidnapping By Robert Parry, April 18, 2015
Iran Has The Right to Protect Itself: Russia Lifts Ban on Shipping S-300 Missile System to Iran By Vladimir Kozin, April 17, 2015
“Lawfare”, Israel’s Continuation of War by Other Means By Jonathan Cook, April 17, 2015
Netanyahu Outrageously Compares Iran to Nazis During WW II By Stephen Lendman, April 17, 2015
Iran and the Middle East: Who’s Afraid of Russia’s S-300 Air Defense System? By Eric Draitser, April 17, 2015
Syria: Media Attacks Assad as Terrorists Attack Civilians By Brandon Turbeville, April 17, 2015
Israel’s Anti-Boycott Law is Racist, Anti-Democratic and Will Hit Palestinians Hardest, Rights Groups Warn By Ali Abunimah, April 17, 2015
Unscrupulous Special Interests and Their Vaccine Crusade By F. William Engdahl, April 17, 2015
Another 400 Refugees Feared Dead in Latest Mediterranean Sea Disaster By Stefan Steinberg, April 16, 2015
The Killing Initiative: The Blackwater Sentences By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, April 16, 2015
Obama Betrays Iran on Nuclear Deal By Stephen Lendman, April 16, 2015
Saudi Terror-Bombing Massacres Dozens of Yemeni Schoolchildren By Stephen Lendman, April 15, 2015
Did Money Seal Israeli-Saudi Alliance? By Robert Parry, April 15, 2015