July 24th, 2015

Three bomb blasts at a mosque and a bus station in Gombe, northern Nigeria on Wednesday killed 37 and injured many more.
Boko Haram’s devastations in northeastern Nigeria have forced tens of thousands across the border into the Diffa region of Niger, creating a humanitarian crisis.
The Nigerian president has accused the US of aiding Boko Haram by refusing to arm Nigeria.
A double suicide bombing by two teenage girls in northern Cameroon killed more than 20.
The trial in Senegal for crimes against humanity of former Chadian dictator Hissène Habre, a landmark trial representing years of effort by victims and their families, has been adjourned til September.
Tunisia cracks down on mosques after the Sousse tourist massacre.
Across North Africa and the Middle East, boundaries and borders are fortifiedagainst the threat of militancy.
Four Italian construction workers have been kidnapped in Libya.
Refugees return home to the Central African Republic to face poverty and contaminating drinking water.
A UN human rights official has resigned over the CAR sexual abuse case.
Malian troops destroyed two militant camps near the border with the Ivory Coast.
Somali troops have captured a southern town away from Al Shabaab.
Human Rights Watch says the South Sudanese government has committedhorrifying war crimes – killing civilians, gang-raping and burning villagers alive and pillaging property – in the military offensive in Unity State.
A cultural center in the Turkish town of Suruc, near Kobani, was hit by an Islamic State suicide attack. More than thirty left-wing activists were killed.
Turkey has now agreed to let American warplanes use the Incirlik air base in the country’s south to launch attacks on the Islamic State.
Turkish jets struck their first Islamic State targets inside Syria early this morning (Friday).
Al Qaeda member and Khorasan group leader Muhsin al-Fadhli was killed by a US airstrike in Syria earlier this month.
Three Spanish freelance journalists and one Japanese freelancer are missing in Syria, feared kidnapped.
Iraqi forces prepare for an offensive against the Islamic State in Ramadi.
The Iraqi town of Haditha has been an “outpost of resistance” against the Islamic State for a year and a half, but supplies are running low.
The Islamic State executed Iraqi journalist Jala al-Abadi in Mosul.
A car bomb last Friday in the Iraqi town of Khan Bani Saad killed over 100 people, one of the country’s deadliest attacks in a decade.
Aidan Morrison takes apart the US “cockroach approach” to fighting the Islamic State.
As the Islamic State gains and holds territory and solidifies control, it transformsfurther into a state that uses terror as a means of control.
Washington Post journalist Jason Rezaian has now spent over a year detained in Iran.
How Iranian state media prepared for the nuclear deal.
Iran has put 694 people to death this year.
The second round of talks between the Afghan Taliban and the Afghan government are set for July 30 in China.
A suicide bomber at a market in northwestern Afghanistan on Wednesday killedover a dozen.
The US says that senior Al Qaeda commander Abu Khalil al-Sudani was killed in an airstrike in Afghanistan earlier in July.
Afghan forces are struggling against rising casualty rates to maintain a stalemate. They are launching massive counterterrorism operations across the country.
Peace talks between the government of Myanmar and rebel leaders ended today (Friday) with no cease-fire agreement.
A UK privacy advocacy group says that Pakistan is working on a mass surveillance system meant to tap the phones and emails of hundreds of millions worldwide.
Kyrgyzstan is renouncing a 1993 bilateral agreement with the United States.
A former prisoner from Donetsk, who was jailed while the region was still under Kiev’s control, talks about how life in prison changed after the separatist takeover.
A Russian town on Ukraine’s border is abuzz with military buildup (and spiking crime). Life in eastern Ukraine remains on edge despite the ceasefire.
Chechens fight on both sides in Ukraine.
The MacArthur Foundation, threatened with being labeled undesirable, isshuttering its Moscow offices.
The ongoing public inquiry into the murder of Alexander Litvinenko resumes today: here’s what we know and don’t know yet.
Celebrations in China over the 70th anniversary of the end of WWII expose the continued rifts with Japan.
Nine tourists are being deported from China for watching “terrorist” videos.
The US has decided against publicly blaming China for the massive breach of sensitive data held by the Office of Personnel Management.
North Korea may be prepping for an October long-range rocket launch.
Spiegel interviews Julian Assange.
How the Chattanooga shooting unfolded.
Charleston shooter Dylann Roof has been charged with federal hate crimes.
A Pentagon investigation into those live Anthrax samples blames procedure but won’t admit human error.
An audit shows that the computer system used by the US Treasury to track foreign threats is vulnerable to hacking.
A US Navy nurse who refused to participate in force-feeding at Guantánamo has been been given an ethics award by the American Nurses Association.
Efforts to close the prison are going about as badly as they always have.
Canada’s new anti-terror legislation is raising concerns in the UN.
Turkish protesters launch fireworks at a demonstration to denounce a suicide bombing in Suruc. AP.

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