Iraq
Turkey plays FSA off against Kurds
Turkey insists the FSA must take control of Kobani if ISIS is defeated—but fails to say how this will be accomplished without fomenting war between the FSA and Kurdish forces.
Africa
HRW: Boko Haram abductions and abuses continue
Militant group Boko Haram has forced kidnapped women and girls to marry their captors and begun using them for military tactical purposes, Human Rights Watch reports.
Greater Middle East
Bahrain court suspends main opposition group
A Bahrain court, actining in a suit brought by the Ministry of Justice, ordered the country's main Shi'ite opposition group al-Wefaq to suspend all activities.
Greater Middle East
Saudi court sentences lawyers for public criticisms
A court in Saudi Arabia sentenced three lawyers to between five and eight years in prison for accusing the country's justice system of arbitrary detentions on Twitter.
Central America
Costa Rica: new strike closes major port
Helicopters were patrolling the skies over Limón after striking dockworkers and police clashed in the latest installment of an eight-year struggle over privatizing the Caribbean port.
Mexico
Mexico: Guerrero governor goes, crisis remains
Last month's assault on teachers' college students in Guerrero continues to kindle rage—and real fires—as Mexico's "narco-government" works on damage control.
Mexico
Mexico: privatization scandals multiply
The Guerrero crisis is diverting international attention from plans for "economic reform," but is Mexico's business class really less corrupt than its politicians?
The Andes
Colombia: mass graves exhumed in Cauca
At least 18 bodies found in three mass graves near the pueblo of Tacueyó in Colombia’s Cauca department are believed to be victims of a guerilla massacre.
The Andes
Colombia: peasants detain soldiers after arrests
When soldiers arrested a village elder at El Reposo, Colombia, in connection with a supposed cocaine lab, the troops found themselves seized by machete-wieilding peasants.
Iraq
Will Kobani intervention spur split in NATO?
Turkey protests US aid to the Kurdish defenders of Kobani, calling the YPG a "terrorist group"—while the US now maintains it is a separate organization from the PKK.
Greater Middle East
Egyptian court sentences 23 protesters to prison
An Egyptian court sentenced 23 activists to three years in prison for protesting without a permit, an act that violates a controversial law enacted last year.
South Asia
India: Maoists appeal to Nagas to resist deployment
India's Maoist rebels issued an appeal to the Naga Regiments to resist deployment as a paramilitary counter-insurgency force to guerilla-held regions of the country.