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.
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
UN Imposes Arms Embargo on Rebels as Yemen Slaughter Continues By Niles Williamson, April 15, 2015
Recolonization of Africa: US Military Missions Reach Record Levels After Pentagon Inks Deal to Remain in Africa for Decades By Nick Turse, April 15, 2015
Geopolitical Ramifications of US-Saudi Armed Interventionism in Yemen By Prof. Henry Francis B. Espiritu, April 15, 2015
Saudi Arabia’s Other War. At War Against Its Own People By Eric Draitser, April 15, 2015
“Anti-Islam” versus “Islamophobia”. “Conspiracy” Behind the Word, Triggering Fear and Danger in the Unconscious Mind By Farah Ghasemi, April 15, 2015
Saudis Face Defeat in Yemen and Instability at Home By Mike Whitney, April 14, 2015
Blackwater Mercenaries Sentenced for 2007 Iraq Massacre By Niles Williamson, April 14, 2015
International Aid Agencies Call for Sanctions on Israel Over Gaza “Stalemate” By Ali Abunimah, April 14, 2015
The Complete Destruction of Nimrud: US Sponsored ISIS Commits another Outrage. Archeological Treasures dating back to 1200 BC By Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey, April 14, 2015
US-backed Saudi forces Committing War Crimes in Yemen – action is needed By Global Research News, April 14, 2015
Obama’s Rape of Yemen By Stephen Lendman, April 14, 2015
Congress Piling on Amendments to Anti-Iranian Nuclear Legislation By Stephen Lendman, April 14, 2015
Israel Moves to Cover-up its Alliance with Al Qaeda in Syria By Asa Winstanley, April 14, 2015
Neocons, “Responsibility to Protect”, and Hypocrisy By Robert Parry, April 13, 2015
Syria: ”Al-Qaeda Linked Rebels” Are Al-Qaeda By Brandon Turbeville, April 13, 2015
Yemen Slaughter Escalates as Regional Powers Exchange Threats By Thomas Gaist, April 13, 2015
Twelve Years Later: And How is Baghdad Today? By Haifa Zangana, April 12, 2015
How Israel Was Absolved of Deir Yassin and All Other Massacres By Ilan Pappe, April 12, 2015
Orwellian Discourse: “War is Peace” in Yemen By Michael Horton, April 12, 2015
Syria at the UN: US, Britain, France, Jordan Refuse to Name ISIL as “Separate Terror Group” By Press TV, April 11, 2015
Turkey and Iran working on Ceasefire in Yemen? By Fars News Agency, April 11, 2015
Arabian Game of Thrones: House of Saud Playing Dirty in Yemen By Sputnik, April 11, 2015
How Saudi Attempts to Manipulate the Houthis and the Muslim Brotherhood Backfired in Yemen By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya, April 11, 2015
Regime Change: A Criminal Calamity for Iraq By Hans von Sponeck, April 11, 2015
BBC Hands Airwaves Over to Israel’s Minister for War By Amena Saleem, April 10, 2015
Obama Abandons American Citizens Trapped in Yemen but Continues Aiding Saudi Bombers By Robert Barsocchini, April 10, 2015
Syria: Al Qaeda Seeks “Consultations” to Rule Newly Seized City. “Democratic Terrorists” Request Western Support By Tony Cartalucci, April 10, 2015
UN Accuses Saudi Arabia of Killing Yemeni Civilians By Stephen Lendman, April 09, 2015
Dollar Hegemony and the Iran Nuclear Issue: The Story behind the Story By Peter Koenig, April 09, 2015
Canadian Foreign Policy: Harper is playing a Double Game on Terror By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya, April 09, 2015
CIA Director: Iran Deal Good for America By Washington's Blog, April 09, 2015
The War on Iraq: Remembering Bloody Tuesday, 12 Years On and No Justice By Dirk Adriaensens, April 09, 2015
Israel Has Spied On American Citizens for Decades By Washington's Blog, April 09, 2015
Four Misconceptions About the Lausanne Negotiations with Iran By Crimson Alter, April 09, 2015
US-Sponsored Slow-Motion Genocide in Yemen By Stephen Lendman, April 09, 2015
Obama-Netanyahu Row: A Diversion from the Real Issues By Jonathan Cook, April 08, 2015