Africa
Somalia: US air-strikes on Shabaab camp
US drones and warplanes killed more than 150 al-Shabab militants in Somalia, with the Pentagon citing an "imminent threat" to US and African Union forces.
Tag: ISIS
North Africa
Britain prepares Libya intervention
The UK is preparing to send troops to Tunisia to help prevent ISIS fighters from entering the country from Libya—and has broached direct intervention in Libya itself.
Greater Middle East
Syria: civil resistance re-emerges in fighting lull
With a lull in the fighting since the Syria "ceasefire," civil movements now re-emerge in the "free" areas, residents filling the streets under the slogan "The Revolution Continues."
Greater Middle East
Turkey releases journalists charged with espionage
A Turkish court released two journalists who were arrested last year after reporting that the Ankara government was running a smuggling operation to arm Islamist factions in Syria.
Greater Middle East
Are Rojava Kurds collaborating with Assad?
Amid confused fighting in northern Syria, accusations are mounting that the Rojava Kurds are collaborating with Russia—and, by extension, the genocidal Bashar Assad regime.
North Africa
Libya: Europe’s looming ‘Vietnam’?
Amid continued confused multi-factional warfare in Libya, the hard-right UK Independence Party warned that the North African country could be the "EU's Vietnam."
North Africa
US warplanes strike ISIS targets in Libya
US warplanes hit an ISIS camp at Sabratha, about 70 kilometers west of Tripoli, killing at least 49—said to be mostly foreign fighters who were preparing an attack in Europe.
Greater Middle East
Syria: whose side is Israel on?
The Israeli security establishment and its neocon allies are divided between those who would destabilize Assad and those who would prop him with up as the Devil they know.
Iraq
Iraq: Yazidi women take up arms against ISIS
Hundreds of Yazidi women who escaped from ISIS sex slavery have formed an all-female battalion to join an assault against their former abusers in northern Iraq.
Greater Middle East
Are Rojava Kurds taking the Russian bait?
Syria's Rojava Kurds are accused of coordinating with Russian air-strikes to take territory held by Islamist factions—while Turkey warns them against any further advance.
Greater Middle East
Syria: ‘ceasefire’ signals escalation (of course)
The Syrian ceasefire announced in Munich does not apply to US or Russian air-strikes on "terrorists," and comes as Turkey and Saudi Arabia are preparing military intervention.
North Africa
Libya: ISIS downing regime warplanes?
ISIS claimed responsibility for downing a MiG-23 from Libya's internationally recognized government as it carried out air-strikes in Benghazi—the third warplane lost in a week.