28th October 2016

After the liberation of Sirte from the Islamic State, Libyans recount the horrors of imprisonment.
The US is reportedly using Tunisia to launch drone operations in Libya.
An Egyptian court upheld life sentences for the leader of the Muslim Brotherhood and 36 others.
Political violence increased dramatically in Zimbabwe this year.
A regional summit on security issues in the Democratic Republic of Congo ended without major progress.
After South Africa and Burundi began the withdrawal process from the International Criminal Court last week, Gambia has announced its intentions to do the same.
Boko Haram proves itself far from defeated.
A few months ago, the tiny Ugandan town of Bidi Bidi was mostly grassland. Now it is the world’s fourth largest refugee camp.
As Kenya shuts down Dadaab refugee camp, authorities are repatriating (read: dumping) 400 people a day, forcing them back into war-torn Somalia without appropriate shelter.
The surviving members of the Naham 3 crew, who endured years of captivity by Somali pirates, have finally been freed.
The Islamic State raised its flag over Qandala, a Somali port town on the Gulf of Aden.
There have been 31 US airstrikes against Al Qaeda in Yemen in 2016––already exceeding the number from previous years.
Turkey’s military purge continues.
Yemen’s Houthi rebels fired a ballistic missile toward Mecca.
Leaked documents show that the UN has hired many friends, relatives and political allies of Bashar al-Assad for the Syrian relief effort. Leaks also show that 2/3 of aid goes to people in government-held areas of the country.
Rebels have begun an offensive to break the government siege of opposition-held areas of Aleppo.
The US believes either Russia or Syria is responsible for an attack on a school in Idlib that left nearly 40 people dead.
Responsibility for a third chemical weapons attack on a rebel-held area––chlorine gas in Idlib province in March 2015––has been laid at the feet of the Syrian government.
Dispatch from Mosul: As opposing forces advance, the Islamic State resorts to scorched earth tactics: setting oil wells on fire, using civilians as human shields, and executing those who try to flee.
As part of the campaign to retake the city, Iraqi Shi’ite militias are preparing to move on Islamic State positions west of Mosul.
The Islamic State killed 23 civilian hostages in Ghor province in western Afghanistan.
A Taliban offensive has blocked a major highway between Kabul and Kandahar.
The Taliban took over a base in southern Uruzgan province.
Afghan forces struggle under the pressure of Taliban gains, mounting casualties and increasing desertions, surrenders, and defections.
American airstrikes in eastern Afghanistan last Sunday targeted two senior Al Qaeda commanders. The US has ramped up airstrikes in the country in 2016.
Afghanistan suffers a migration crisis as Pakistan and Iran force refugees back, splitting up families and sending people back into conflict zones.
In Pakistan, authorities have banned public rallies and arrested dozens of supporters of opposition leader Imran Khan.
An attack on a police training college in Quetta left 61 dead.
India and Pakistan have expelled one another’s diplomats.
In Kashmir, ad hoc schools are popping up as refuges for children amid strikes and curfews.
In the weeks following an attack on a guard post, Myanmar’s army and border police have looted shops, and raped and killed members of the Rohingya population in Rakhine state, which remains inaccessible to aid organizations.
Activists decry the lack of attention to southern Thailand’s long-running separatist conflict.
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte says he wants the US military out of the country in two years.
Did North Korea just try to launch two long-range missiles?
Analysis: Close defense cooperation among European militaries is a “pipe dream.”
Russia is upgrading the firepower of its Baltic fleet.
In Berlin, a museum replica of Hitler’s bunker is causing a stir.
France declared the Calais migrant camp empty.
Eastern Europe’s defense industry is on the rise.
Ukrainian hackers released emails reportedly showing a top Kremlin official’s links to the 2014 uprising in eastern Ukraine.
A Russian cultural center in Lviv has been evicted.
Interactive: Budapest 60 years after the uprising.
Two Yazidi activists and survivors of Islamic State sexual enslavement received the prestigious Sakharov prize.
Meet one of the six Syrian refugees taken in by Japan.
Most UN members voted to hold talks on a treaty to ban nuclear weapons.
Colombia suspended talks with the ELN, the country’s second-largest rebel group over a politician who remains their hostage.

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