The US  for the first time scrambled jets in response to Assad regime aggression when its Kurdish anti-ISIS partners came under bombardment—foreboding direct conflict with Russia.
As doctors in beseiged Aleppo issue a desperate plea for a no-fly zone to protect civilians in the city, the "anti-war" (sic) left in the US mobilizes to defeat the proposal.
An alliance of rebel militias announced that their fighters have broken the devastating months-long siege of Aleppo by the Bashar Assad regime and allied forces.
By maintaining silence on Assad regime and Russian aerial terror in Syria—or even seeking to justify it—the Western left squanders its credibility to protest US war crimes.
Exiled Bahraini human rights defender Maryam al-Khawaja, speaking in New York, says the Arab regimes are exploiting sectarianism to pit revolutions against each other.
Under the new US-Russia coordination in Syria, the Pentagon will direct greater firepower against ISIS and Nusra Front in what analysts call a "boon for the Assad regime."
Bahrain's high court ordered al-Wefaq, the main Shi'ite opposition party, to be dissolved, ruling that it had engaged in "terrorism, extremism, and violence."
With a post-coup purge of his enemies now underway, Erdogan is positioned to push through his proposed constitutional change that would establish an autocracy in Turkey.
Erdogan paradoxically summoned his supporters to take the streets to defeat a coup attempt—after crushing the Gezi Park protests and unleashing terror against the Kurds.
The Turkish government is blocking access for independent investigations into reports of mass abuses against civilians across southeast Turkey, Human Rights Watch says.
Egypt's National Security Agency is abducting, torturing and forcibly disappearing people in an effort to intimidate opponents and crush peaceful dissent, Amnesty International charges.
ISIS executed five media activists in Syria's eastern province of Deir Ezzor, warning that anyone who tries to document the group's atrocities will never be safe from retribution.
