Mexico
Official version of Mexican massacre questioned
An Inter-American Commission on Human Rights report calls into question the Mexican government's own investigation of the disappearance of 43 students in Guerrero.
Greater Middle East
Kurds punished for success against ISIS —again
With the Rojava Kurds mounting an offensive on the last ISIS-held border town in northern Syria, Turkey has launched a new propaganda push to brand them as "terrorists."
Greater Middle East
FAIR serves up more lies on Syria
The poorly named Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting (sic) continues to propagate the bogus conspiracy theory of a CIA effort to overthrow the Bashar Assad dictatorship.
North Africa
Libya: ISIS gains as rival regimes fight each other
ISIS launched an audacious attack on Tripoli, as Libya's two rival governments continue to wage war on each other, with new air-strikes on the contested city of Benghazi.
Central America
Guatemala: activist slain in palm-oil region
An indigenous ecological leader in Guatemala was killed outside a court that one day earlier ordered the closure of a plantation against which he had led protests.
East Asia
Japan’s Diet approves foreign troop deployments
Despite huge protests, Japan's parliament approved a measure allowing the Self Defense Forces to deploy troops on foreign combat missions for the first time since World War II.
Iraq
Sectarian massacres continue in Syria and Iraq
The Nusra Front fired hundreds of missiles into beseiged Alwaite villages in Syria, while ISIS claimed responsibility for suicide blasts that targeted Shi'ite areas of Baghdad.
Watching the Shadows
Guantánamo prisoner released to Morocco
Moroccan-born Younis Abdurrahman Chekkouri, who spent 13 years in the Guantánamo Bay prison, was released to his home country—where authorities prompty detained him.
Africa
Counter-revolution in Burkina Faso
The democratic transition begun by last year's popular revolution was aborted by a military coup d'etat in Burkina Faso, sparking street protests in which three have been killed.
Southeast Asia
Uighur militants named in Bangkok blast
Thailand's national police say that last month's deadly Erawan Shrine attack was carried out by Uighur militants angered over Bangkok's deportation of Uighur refugees back to China.
The Andes
Ecuador: protesters remobilize in Quito
Indigenous and labor protesters again marched on Quito, now demanding release of "political prisoners" detained in last month's nation-wide demonstrations.
Southern Cone
Argentina: protests follow gold mine cyanide spill
Residents of a town in northwest Argentina took to the streets in protest after a pipe carrying cyanide to Barrick Gold's Veladero mine fractured and spilled its contents in the area.