ISIS captures Yarmouk refugee camp, closes in on Damascus; Hezbollah trapped by a sense of collapse in al-Assad’s army; Turkmenistan fears jihadist invasion from Afghanistan; Palestinian Authority joins International Criminal Court
Syria’s al-Assad regime suffers major military setback in Idlib; Arab League positions harden against Houthis and Iran
Puerto Rico bankruptcy may be imminent, potentially a ‘seminal event’; Israel releases tax revenue collections to Palestinian Authority; Mideast nations line up for and against Saudi airstrikes in Yemen; Mideast countries opposed to Saudi intervention in Yemen
Saudi Arabia, with US help, leads Arab nations to strike Houthis in Yemen; Iran threatens retaliation against Saudi Arabia for Yemen strikes; Shia militias sidelined for Iraq’s assault on Tikrit, with US help
US joins Iran and Iraq in fighting ISIS in Tikrit; Saudi Arabia begins airstrikes against Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen; Obama administration continues to hail Yemen as a model
Almost all mosques have been destroyed in Central African Republic; Russia finally begins to grasp the danger posed by ISIS
Yemen’s Houthis capture Taiz, advance south to fight Hadi’s forces in Aden; UN Security Council urges ‘peaceful dialog’ in Yemen; France’s center-right party edges out far-right National Front in elections
Computer geek activists demonstrate against robots at SXSW; Yemen’s Houthi-controlled Supreme Revolutionary Committee calls for ‘general mobilization’; US military forces evacuating Yemen, fearing AQAP attacks
Yemen suicide bombings bring sectarian civil war closer; Benjamin Netanyahu’s ‘no Palestinian state’ scandal exposes political fantasies
Tunisia in shock after terror attack on museum in Tunis; Beneath the surface, Tunisia is a terrorist breeding ground
Fears grow of Shia revenge killings in Iraq; Russia plans military development, including nuclear weapons, in Crimea
Iran’s Supreme Leader Khamenei makes public appearance on Sunday; Mali’s capital city Bamako in shock after terror attack; Are ISIS and Boko Haram ‘far right’ extremists?
Libya’s two rival governments in unity talks to fight ISIS; UAE may replace Saudis as Egypt’s most important Arab ally; Boko Haram kills 58 in multiple bombings in Maiduguri, Nigeria; Boko Haram declares allegiance to ISIS
Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan seek ‘Sunni unity’ versus Iran; Turkey’s Erdogan shuts out Al-Sisi and Egypt from discussions; After a year, experts still guessing about Malaysia Airlines 370
Why did ISIS release 19 Assyrian Christian hostages?; Iran aids Iraq’s army in attack to recapture Tikrit from ISIS
ISIS kidnaps around 90 Assyrian Christians in Syria; John Kerry says that Russia has repeatedly lied to his face
Sectarian violence surging all across Pakistan; Greece misses deadline for submitting reforms list.
Deadly MERS virus surging early in Saudi Arabia; India has worst H1N1 swine flu outbreak in years; Egypt’s al-Sisi calls for a joint Arab military force; Armenia’s president sends condolence letter to Egypt’s al-Sisi
Taliban claims responsibility for bombing in Lahore, Pakistan; Russians ignore Ukraine ‘ceasefire’ as 5,000 Ukrainian troops are trapped; New Zealand debating military help for Iraq against ISIS
Greece bailout talks collapse in acrimony; Egypt faces two-front war with airstrikes in Libya; Muslim versus Muslim wars in the Mideast continue to grow; Iraq army preparing to recapture Mosul from ISIS
Egypt in mourning as ISIS-linked terrorists kill Coptic Christians in Libya; Egypt purchases fighter jets over fears of militias in Libya; Yemen may form second government in Aden
Nigeria requests US troops to fight Boko Haram; Debka: Obama seeks Iran’s help as anti-ISIS coalition shrinks
Mideast war widens as Jordan vows to destroy ISIS; 80 million people exposed by massive Anthem Inc. data breach
Analysts are puzzled by ISIS’s burning alive of Jordan’s pilot; Jordan promises revenge against ISIS for killing pilot; Japan’s nationalism surges over ISIS killings of two Japanese hostages
Hezbollah backs down from war with Israel; Clashes between Nusra front and Free Syrian Army spreading in Syria; Jundallah takes credit for massive mosque attack in Pakistan; Egypt’s military begins ‘wide military offensives’ in North Sinai; Greece clashes with eurogroup ‘No more bailout, no more troika!’; In Denmark you are now paid to take out a mortgage
