Kuwait's Supreme Court upheld a 10-year sentence for a man accused of posting Tweets that insulted the Prophet Mohammed and the rulers of Saudi Arabia and Bahrain.
Forces both aligned with and against the regimes in Iraq and Syria are mobilizing in both countries to beat back ISIS—Shi'ites, Sufis, Ba'athists and the secular civil resistance.
Bahrain's Ministry of Justice filed a suit seeking to suspend all activities of the main Shi'ite opposition group, whose leaders were accused of an illegal meeting with a US diplomat.
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.
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.
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.
The Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Syria warned the UN that the continuing civil war has "reached a tipping point, threatening the entire region."
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay said that the numerous executions that have occurred over the past week in Iraq "almost certainly amount to war crimes."
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.
Gunmen killed at least eight people and burned down a church in attacks on two villages in Nigeria's central Plateau state—as 30 Fulani women were abducted in Borno.
Afraid of war spilling across the border from neighboring Syria, Lebanon's government has halted cannabis eradication in the Bekaa Valley, allowing a dope-for-guns pipeline to flourish.
UN human rights experts urged Pakistan to take urgent measures against faith-based killings and protect the country's Ahmadiyya Muslim community, whose faith is now outlawed.
