ISIS militants attacked a security checkpoint near the gates of the 6th century St. Catherine's Monastery in Egypt's Sinai peninsula, as draconian emergency measures take effect.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's referendum granting himself sweeping powers took place in an atmosphere of terror, with opposition leaders silenced and detained.
Western media refer to "evacuation" and "population transfer" of besieged Syrian towns, euphemisms that mask the sectarian and genocidal element of the regime strategy.
Hearings began in Spain on potential war crimes committed by Bashar Assad's regime in Syria, in a case brought by a Spanish national whose brother was tortured to death.
Egyptian authorities declared a three-month state of emergency after twin ISIS bombings killed 43 at two Coptic churches in the Nile Delta on Palm Sunday.
Trump, whose own air-strikes have killed hundreds, decides he must bomb an Assad air-base to retaliate for a gas attack—while the "anti-war" left is undisturbed by the gas attack.
Spain's top court will investigate claims by a Spanish woman that her brother was tortured and murdered by Bashar Assad's security forces, opening a window into his gulag.
A suspected chlorine gas attack on an underground hospital in the rebel-held north of Syria's Hama governorate killed three people, including a surgeon, and injured dozens more.
The UN Food and Agriculture Organization warned that the Middle East and North Africa risk becoming uninhabitable in a few decades, with water reserves falling dramatically.
The US air-lifts Kurdish fighters into ISIS territory in preparation for a final assault on Raqqa—while bombing the city, deepening the growing enmity between Kurds and Arabs.
The Kurdish YPG militia says it has agreed to establishment of a Russian military base in its territory, although Moscow calls it a "reconciliation center."
More than 40 Somali refugees were killed when an Apache helicopter fired on a boat in the Red Sea off war-torn Yemen, but the Saudi-led coalition denies responsibility.
