North Africa

Libya: death squad terror in Benghazi

The mutilated bodies of 14 civilians, including a local imam, were found in a landfill in a Benghazi district controlled by renegade Libyan military commander Khalifa Haftar.

The Andes

FARC threatens to disavow renegade units

A threat to the Colombian peace talks emerged as some FARC units unilaterally attacked government forces and declared their non-compliance with the ceasefire.

The Andes

Colombia: cocaine mega-busts keep coming

Amid moves toward peace in Colombia, the goad of the war—the country's lucrative cocaine trade—clearly remains robust, as record-breaking hauls are reported.

Southern Cone

Mapuche militants burn machinery at hydro site

Members of Mapuche Ancestral Resistance burned two excavator machines being used to build a hydro-dam in southern Argentina, demanding restoration of traditional lands.

Inner Asia

ISIS hand seen Kazakhstan attacks

A team of gunmen killed three security officers and two civilians in an attack on  an office of the National Security Committee in Kazakhstan’s commercial capital Almaty.

Greater Middle East

Egypt: hundreds disappeared and tortured

Egypt's National Security Agency is abducting, torturing and forcibly disappearing people in an effort to intimidate opponents and crush peaceful dissent, Amnesty International charges.