Southeast Asia

Mindanao: fighting flares with Moro rebels

A clash between Philippine National Police troops and Moro rebels left 30 dead, jeopardizing the Mindanao peace deal. The troops were hunting down the Qaeda-linked Abu Sayyaf cell.

Greater Middle East

Egypt: leftist protester killed at Tahrir Square

Protests around the commemoration of Egypt's 2011 revolution may be dominated by Islamist Morsi supporters, but an early demonstration called by a socialist party saw one killed.

Europe

UN meeting on anti-Semitism… Oy vey

The UN hearings on anti-Semitism will certainly enflame anti-Semitism—affording Israel the opportunity for propaganda exploitation, and for Jew-haters to exploit the backlash.

Greater Middle East

Egypt: retrial for police in protester deaths

Egypt's Court of Cassation ordered a retrial for four police officers accussed in the deaths of 37 detained protesters in a van outside a Cairo prison after the 2013 coup.

Greater Middle East

Yemen’s Houthi rebels: Iran’s proxies?

Claims that the Houthi uprising in Yemen is an Iranian plot ignore that the Houthis' brand of Shia is heretical to Iran's ayatollahs—and that Yemen's Shi'ites have real grievances.

Greater Middle East

Lebanon’s hashish valley arms against ISIS

The Bekaa Valley's cannabis farmers, who armed to resist Lebanese army eradication efforts, now say they are ready to resist any ISIS incursion into their fastness.

The Caribbean

Haiti: deal fails, Martelly rules by decree

Haiti's political class once again failed to end its paralysis, and now the country lacks a legislature. The "international community" seems OK with the situation.

Mexico

Mexico: students’ parents storm army base

Parents of 43 missing Ayotzinapa students insist that the military knows more than it admits about their abduction. Meanwhile, the government's version gets shakier and shakier.