A military court in Israel ordered Palestinian lawmaker Khalida Jarrar be released on bail following her arrest for defying Israeli-imposed restrictions on her movement.
ISIS forces are in control of most of Moammar Qaddafi's hometown of Sirte, sucessfully repulsing an effort to retake the town by forces aligned with the Libya Dawn coalition.
The European Union imposed new sanctions on five Russians over their role in elections in the Crimean peninsula. The EU sanctions framework was instated in March 2014, when Russian forces invaded and annexed the peninsula from Ukraine. At the time, the EU declared the move a "clear violation of Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity by acts of aggression by the Russian armed forces." The new sanctions target five individuals involved in election of members to represent the annexed peninsula in the Russian Duma. Three are newly elected Duma representatives for the city of Sevastopol. The other two are head and deputy head of the Sevastopol electoral commission. (Map via Wikimedia Commons)
A Sufi cleric who is a vocal critic of fundamentalist Islam is targeted by a fundamentalist Christian preacher who sought to massacre the Sufi's community in upstate New York.
