Greater Middle East

Turkey to build wall on Syrian border

Turkey will build a 2.5-kilometer wall along the Cilvegözü post on the border with Syria, near where a twin bomb attack killed 51 and wounded more than 100 earlier this month.

The Andes

World War 4 Report goes to Peru…

World War 4 Report editor Bill Weinberg will be in Peru on assignment for the next weeks. The Daily Report will be updated as time and logistics allow, with on-the-scene reports.

lakota

Lakota elders march on UN

On April 9, Lakota elders, activists and non-indigenous supporters marched through the streets of Manhattan to the United Nations, where they attempted to present a petition to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon. Entitled the “Official Lakota Oyate Complaint of Genocide… Read moreLakota elders march on UN

Greater Middle East

Israeli air-strikes near Damascus

Israeli missiles struck a research center near Damascus, as massacres of Sunni families by pro-government militias are reported from Syria’s coastal Alawite stronghold.

Watching the Shadows

Harrowing Gitmo memoir published

Mohamedou Ould Slahi, a Mauritanian detained at Guantánamo since August 2002, has had portions of his handwritten prison-camp memoir published in Slate magazine.

Iraq

Ba’ath-Sufi convergence in Iraq insurgency?

The most senior member of Saddam Hussein’s inner circle still on the run, Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, is said to be leading a band of insurgents from the Naqshbandi Sufi order.

Greater Middle East

Egypt: sweep of Black Bloc protesters

Egyptian “Black Bloc” protesters continue to clash with police as 22 of their comrades have been detained in a “terrorism” investigation.

Central America

Guatemala: emergency over mining protests

Guatemala’s government declared a state of emergency in four municipalities in the eastern highlands following clashes between police and anti-mining protesters.