The capture of an ISIS commander by the Lebanese army prompted Syrian jihadist forces to seize a village in the Bekaa Valley, sparking gun battles that have left some 20 dead.
The Kurdish Regional Government appeals to Obama for arms to fight ISIS—while Baghdad demands the Kurds return arms seized from its own disintegrating national army.
Iraqi security forces and pro-government militias have unlawfully executed at least 250 Sunni prisoners in six Iraqi cities and villages, Human Rights Watch reports.
Iraq's government warned the UN that ISIS militants have seized nuclear materials from a Mosul research facility and chemical agents from a stockpile outside Baghdad.
As Syrians put their lives on the line to oppose a genocidal regime, Bob Dreyfuss in The Nation calls on the US to back Bashar Assad to beat back ISIS.
The US and Iran alike are sending drones to Iraq to help the government beat back ISIS, while Russia has followed Washington in sending warplanes and military advisors.
ISIS announced the establishment of a new "caliphate," with its own leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi as caliph. But even Islamist rebels in Syria are fighting back against ISIS forces.
The ISIS militants that have seized Mosul are engaged in a campaign of cultural cleansing—targeting not only the citiy's inhabitants, but its artistic and historical treasures.
Fighting erupted between ISIS and militants of the Naqshbandi Sufi Order in Kirkuk governorate, as the Sunni rebel coalition that has seized a third of Iraq starts to fray.
President Obama announced the deployment of 300 US military advisors to Iraq to help government forces beat back the ISIS militants that have seized a third of the country.
Hebron and the West Bank are heavily militarized as Israeli troops hunt for three youths whose abductions have now been claimed (somewhat dubiously) in the name of ISIS.
Ayman al-Zawahiri purged ISIS from al-Qaeda and confered the local franchise on the rival Nusra Front. But with the old Qaeda leadership moribund, ISIS now controls much of Iraq.
