The Andes
Peru: protests as US military forces arrive
Angry protesters took to the streets of Lima as 3,000 US troops arrived in Peru for an anti-drug "training mission" in the country's coca-growing jungle zones.
Africa
Boko Haram kills hundreds in Cameroon: report
A report by Amnesty International details atrocities committed by Boko Haram in northern Cameroon, resulting in the killing of at least 400 civilians over the past months.
Greater Middle East
Turkey: Kurdish left resists ‘political genocide’
With much of Turkey's east under a state of emergency and pro-government mobs sacking offices of the left-opposition HDP, Kurdish leaders charge a campaign of "political genocide."
Watching the Shadows
Gitmo force-feeding videos released to court
The US government, on order from a federal judge in a case brought by ex-detainees, released eight redacted videos showing forced feedings at Guantánamo Bay prison.
Palestine
Israeli forces storm Aqsa Mosque amid new clashes
Israeli forces entered the al-Aqsa Mosque, using tear-gas and rubber bullets on worshippers in a third straight day of violent clashes at the third holiest site in Islam.
North Africa
ISIS complains about jihadist rivals in Libya
The latest edition of the English-language ISIS magazine Dabiq includes a tirade against Qaeda-aligned forces in Libya, amid an internecine war of jihadist factions.
South Asia
India: court finds 12 guilty in 2006 Mumbai attacks
An Indian anti-terror court convicted 12 members of a Muslim student group in connection with the deadly bombings of seven commuter trains in Mumbai in 2006.
South Asia
India: Naga rebels divided over peace deal
Rival factions of India's longest running ethnic insurgency are divided on whether to accept a peace deal with the government—as Delhi turns up military heat on the hold-outs.
New York City
9-11 at fourteen: spectacle commodified
9-11 still provides an occasion for jingoism and war propaganda. But the day's commodification and transformation into an empty spectacle is now even more disturbing.
The Andes
Ecuador shuts down free-speech organization
Ecuador's Secretary of Communications officially informed free-speech advocacy organization Fundamedios that it is being dissoved for promoting "indisputably political" material.
Central America
El Salvador rules street gangs are ‘terrorist groups’
El Salvador's Supreme Court ruled that the country's notoriously violent street gangs and those who support them financially will now be classified as "terrorist groups."
The Andes
Paramilitarism in Venezuela-Colombian border crisis
Venezuela closed the Colombian border and declared a state of emergency along the frontier, accusing Bogotá of allowing the infiltration of right-wing paramilitaries.