Mexico
Sinaloa kingpin prevails in prison hunger strike
Sinaloa Cartel kingpin Chapo Guzmán claimed victory after leading a hunger strike joined by hundreds of inmates at Mexico's top-security Altiplano prison.
Author: CounterVortex
North Africa
Libya parliament votes for foreign intervention
Libya's parliament passed a measure calling on the UN Security Council for foreign intervention to protect civilians from deadly clashes between rival militia groups.
Iraq
Obama orders more troops to Iraq
Obama dispatched 130 new military advisors to Iraqi Kurdistan, but is resisting the Kurdistan government's appeal for more arms to fight ISIS. France has pledged new arms shipments.
Mexico
Sonora: mining threatens disappearing waters
Water was cut off to the capital of Mexico's Sonora state after a toxic spill at a mine turned a river orange—as Yaqui Indians protest theft of their waters by a new aqueduct.
The Andes
Peru leaks: oil company rewrote environmental law
Leaked e-mails reveal that Austrailia's Karoon Energy provided "technical support" in the proposed reform of Peru's hydrocarbon law that would loosen oversight of oil exploration.
The Andes
Cajamarca: campesino family convicted in retrial
A court in Peru's Cajamarca region sentenced three members of a campesino family to more than two years for "land usurpation" against the Yanacocha mineral company.
Iraq
Shabaks, Turkmen targeted for ISIS cleansing
Some 150,000 Shabaks and 250,000 Turkmen as well as 200,000 Yazidis and 100,000 Christians have been displaced by the ISIS onslaught in northern Iraq.
Iraq
Peshmerga drive back ISIS; Baghdad divided
Kurdish Peshmerga forces with US air cover started to drive back ISIS from Erbil—but Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's refusal to step down is driving Sunnis into the arms of the jihadists.
Iraq
Arab intervention force against ISIS?
Egypt called for an "Arab Alliance" to halt an ISIS advance on the Gulf States, as US air-strikes hit ISIS positions near Sinjar. Obama said there is no "timetable" for the strikes to end.
Iraq
US air-strikes target ISIS advance on Erbil
US jets and drones carried out air-strikes outside Erbil in an effort to drive back the ISIS advance on the Kurdish regional capital, while Iraqi warplanes struck near Mosul.
The Andes
Peru: new ops against ‘narco-senderistas’
Peru's National Police stepped up operations against "narco-senderistas"—surviving remnants of the Shining Path that control cocaine production in two remote pockets of jungle.
Greater Middle East
ISIS take village in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley
The capture of an ISIS commander by the Lebanese army prompted Syrian jihadist forces to seize a village in the Bekaa Valley, sparking gun battles that have left some 20 dead.