Iraq
Kurdish forces open new front against Assad
Fighting broke out between Assad regime troops and Kurdish forces in Syria's divided northern city of Hassakeh, signalling an end to a pact established to keep ISIS at bay.
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Palestine
Fatah under attack over statehood proposal
A Hamas leader said that the draft resolution for Palestinian statehood presented to the UN Security Council is "disastrous," and has "no future in the land of Palestine."
South Asia
India: Bodo militants massacre tribal people
National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) militants shot dead at least 50 adivasis, or tribal people, in a wave of coordinated attacks across India's northeast state of Assam.
Africa
ICC halts Darfur probe; Bashir threatens rebels
The International Criminal Court suspended its Darfur investigation, citing UN inaction in the case, as President Omar al-Bashir accused rebel leaders of being foreign "agents."
The Caucasus
ISIS hand in Chechnya attack?
The Russian policy establishment is hypothesizing an ISIS hand in the bloody attack by Chechen insurgents in Grozny—and implying that the West is in turn behind ISIS. (Map via La Croix International)
Europe
Scotland to have more independent powers
The UK's Smith Commission on devolution concluded that Scotland's parliament should have greater independence, but the country's leaders found it insufficient.
East Asia
Hong Kong to Ferguson: corporate police state
The pepper spray used by Hong Kong police is made by the Sabre company—its headquarters just oustide Ferguson, Mo., now exploding into protest over the Michael Brown case.
Iraq
Kurdish revolution: what odds for survival?
Will the anarchist-oriented Rojava Kurds ultimately be crushed in deference to Washington's NATO ally Turkey—or coopted into imperial clients? Is a third revolutionary option possible?
The Andes
FARC fighters face indigenous justice
A Nasa indigenous court in Toribio, in Colombia's Cauca department, convicted seven FARC guerillas over the murder of two members of the local Indigenous Guard.
Europe
Spain: court suspends Catalonia independence vote
The Spanish Constitutional Court suspended Catalonia’s upcoming vote on independence—turning what had been a symbolic poll into a political showdown with Madrid.
Greater Middle East
Global mobilization for Kobani
Supporters of the Kurdish resistance at Kobani will hold a global mobilization Saturday Nov. 1, with the New York City rally at Union Square at 3 PM.
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.