1st May, 2015

The Nigerian army has said it has rescued hundreds of women and girls from Boko Haram.
Hundreds were found dead, killed by Boko Haram, early this week in the northeastern town of Damasak.
Protests have racked Burundi’s capital after the president’s decision to run for a third term while youth militia reportedly intimidate rural areas. More than 22,000 have fled to Rwanda in the past week.
Hundreds of students from the closed down University of Burundi have sought refuge outside the US Embassy.
Libya’s strained and faltering government has shelled out seven figures for a DC lobbying firm to represent its interests in Washington.
The Islamic State slit the throats of five Libyan television journalists.
Many migrants travelling across the Mediterranean never planned on a life in Europe.
A senior UN aid worker has been suspended after leakingan internal report about French peacekeepers sexually abusing children in the Central African Republic to prosecutors.
Aviation safety has become a huge concern for US pilots at Camp Lemonnier.
Bashar al-Assad’s army shows the strain of years of fighting.
On Friday, two Swedish hostages held by the Nusra Front for seventeen months were freed with the assistance of Palestinian intelligence.
A UN inquiry points the finger at the Israeli military for seven attacks on UN schools being used as shelters in last summer’s war.
The coalition of countries battling the Islamic State isconfronted with how to deal with other terror groups now calling themselves provinces of IS.
The Islamic State owes much of its existence to Ba’athist involvement, rooted in Saddam Hussein’s rule.
C.J. Chivers on where the Islamic State gets its weapons.
Saudi Arabia’s new king has shaken up the line of succession – replacing the Crown Prince Muqrin (his half-brother) with his nephew, Prince bin Nayef.
The Islamic State’s Yemen branch released a video showing the beheadings of four Yemeni soldiers and the shooting of ten more.
Heavy fighting in Aden between Houthi rebels and Popular Resistance Committees forces many to flee.
A string of car bombings in Baghdad on Monday killed at least 20 civilians.
Despite statements made last year using words like “conclusion” to refer to the war in Afghanistan, the Department of Justice would like to clarify that none of it is over.
A Taliban offensive has surrounded Kunduz City. Meanwhile foreign fighters are taking up residence in Kunduz province.
NPR profiles Afghan commandos.
The FBI reportedly helped facilitate a ransom payment to Al Qaeda for Warren Weinstein back in 2012. Weinstein was killed in a US drone strike earlier this year.
After the drone strikes that accidentally killed Western hostages have reinvigorated debate over the targeted killing program, Pakistanis ask why their deaths haven’t warranted outcry.
In 2013, while publicly tightening rules about drone strikes, President Obama granted a waiver for the CIA’s operations in Pakistan.
Pakistan has dropped its case against former CIA station chief and a CIA general counsel.
The US and Qatar began talks on Wednesday about the future of the Taliban swapped for Sgt. Bergdahl.
Der Spiegel interviews Alexander Zakharchenko, the leader of the separatist Donetsk People’s Republic.
Separatist-controlled Ukraine is run with rough, summary justice.
The Ukrainian military says that rebels have resumed use of rocket launchers.
NATO says Russia is repositioning for another offensive.
In a new documentary, Vladimir Putin refers to the annexation of Crimea as “historical justice.”
The International Rescue Committee has been forced out of eastern Ukraine after being accused by separatists of espionage.
The stadium of Ukrainian soccer club Shakhtar Donetsksits empty and damaged by war – the club and much of the population displaced from the region.
Russia is letting a humanitarian crisis caused by wildfires in Siberia take a backseat to aid convoys going to eastern Ukraine.
40 years after the Vietnam war, Agent Orange remains ahealth crisis.
Kim Jong-Un reportedly executed fifteen top officials so far this year.
The US and Japan announced a new security agreement.
The Bureau of Investigative Journalism has put togetherprofiles of all 119 detainees who were put through the CIA’s detention and interrogation program.
The American Psychological Association collaboratedwith the Bush administration on legal and ethical justifications for torture practices.
Former Guantánamo detainees are protesting in front of the embassy in Uruguay for better resettlement conditions.
The 2015 defense bill put forward by the House Armed Services Committee would seek to limit detainee transfers from Guantánamo.
A judge in the death penalty trial for USS Cole mastermind Abd al Rahim al Nashiri has denied the defense request for a full copy of the Senate report on CIA torture.
Part of political debate in British elections is the nation’sloss of global reach and its lessened military importance, even in relation to the United States.

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