- Somalia’s US-funded intelligence agency used children as spies.
- Kenya will close all its refugee camps, displacing about 600,000 people.
- Rwanda is aiding Burundi’s rebels and North Korea is arming Congolese troops,according to an independent panel reporting the Security Council.
- Two former Rwandan mayors went on trial in Paris for their part in the 1994 genocide.
- How to rebuild Nigeria after Boko Haram.
- Babies and children are dying in Nigerian military detention.
- In photos: Adriane Ohanesian journeys into Darfur’s rebel-held mountains.
- Senegal and the US signed a defense cooperation agreement.
- Libya faces further fragmentation.
- Africa confronts its worst drought in half a century.
- Violence grows in Turkey’s southeast.
- Top Hezbollah commander Mustafa Amine Bedreddine, a key target for Israelnicknamed the “untraceable ghost,” was killed in a large explosion near the Damascus airport.
- From some vantage points, the US seems to have abandoned the idea of going after Assad in Syria.
- A Red Cross aid convoy was denied access to the Syrian city of Darayya.
- Three Spanish journalists kidnapped in Syria were freed
- A power struggle between the Kurdish peshmerga and the Iraqi forces is impeding efforts to retake Mosul.
- Long read: Everything you ever wanted to know about how the Islamic State uses the internet. (Like an alphabet app for kids!)
- Islamic State car bombings killed at least 90 people in Baghdad.
- The Chilcot report, a long-awaited British inquiry into the Iraq war, will bepublished July 6.
- The US does not know what to do with captured Islamic State fighters.
- Saudi Arabia closed hajj to the Iranians after a year of deep tension.
- Yemenis are scarred by war and skeptical of talks of peace.
- Russia delivered its S-300 missile defense system to Iran.
- The Islamic State’s radio broadcasts in Afghanistan return to the airwaves.
- A car bomb in Nangarhar province killed at least 11 people.
- Long read: Mohammed Gulab saved former Navy SEAL Marcus Luttrell in Afghanistan in 2005. He and his family paid a steep price. Now, his version of events does not match up with Luttrell’s Lone Survivor retelling.
- Pakistani clerics issued a fatwa against the Islamic State.
- Azerbaijan accused Armenia of using white phosphorus in Nagorno-Karabakh.
- The US switched on a missile shield in Romania, to Russia’s displeasure.
- Infographic: Laying out the planned European missile defense system.
- Ukraine and Russia agreed to demilitarized zones and other security measures.
- A “quarter century of shrinking the Bundeswehr is over,” as Germany plans to expand its military in response to Russia.
- France plans to establish a series of de-radicalization centers.
- A former Republican member of the 9/11 commission said he believes there was evidence of Saudi government involvement in a support network for the hijackers.
- Khalid Sheikh Muhammad’s lawyers called for the judge and prosecutor in his trial to step down, alleging destruction of evidence favorable to the defense.
- A legal challenge may allow the UN special rapporteur on torture into Guantánamo’s highly restrictive Camp 7.
- The US is calling on countries to authorize their United Nations peacekeeping troops to use force to protect civilians.
- When Air Force General Lori J. Robinson assumes control of the North American Aerospace Defense Command and US Northern Command today, she will be the first woman to head a top-tier U.S. warfighting command.
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