- Libya topples back into civil war as rival sides battle for control of oil terminals.
- UK-funded refugee camps in Libya are indefinitely detaining asylum-seekers.
- Kenyan security forces, the recipients of a fair amount of US counterterrorism funding, are accused of torture, executions, and disappearances.
- “Besieged: A 360º experience in Sudan’s Nuba mountains.”
- Japan ends its five year peacekeeping mission in South Sudan.
- War consumes South Sudan.
- Amid famine, the South Sudanese government signaled that it will increase the cost of work permits for foreign aid workers.
- Israel passed a law banning those supporting a boycott of the country from entering.
- A former Guantánamo inmate was killed in a US airstrike in Yemen.
- The Trump administration looks to resume Saudi arms sales.
- The UN urges Turkey to investigate killings in the southeast.
- Emin Ozmen’s photos of the Syrian refugee experience in Turkey.
- The Syrian war enters its seventh year, with millions internally displaced and millions more in need of humanitarian aid.
- The US puts hundreds of Marines on the ground in the fight for Raqqa, adding to the international power struggle in the conflict.
- US forces headed to Manbij to disrupt fighting between rival US-allied forces.
- Syrian children are suffering toxic stress, showing a range of symptoms as a result of their constant, lifelong exposure to violence and fear.
- Warlords and armed militias are taking control inside Assad’s territory.
- After the second Islamic State occupation, Palmyra remains majestic despite the devastation.
- The Islamic State leaves Mosul’s antiquities museum in ruins.
- Iraqi troops find Assyrian treasures in the Islamic State’s network of tunnels beneath Mosul.
- As Iraqi security forces advance through Mosul, the Islamic State deploys vicious and rapidly evolving counterattacks.
- Bahrain has moved to ban the main opposition party and to shift a number of civilian cases to a military court.
- Gunmen dressed as medics killed dozens in an attack on Kabul’s main military hospital.
- NPR interviews Afghanistan’s ambassador to Washington, Hamdullah Mohib.
- The impossible job of Afghanistan’s attorney general.
- Putting a human face on the cost of terror in Kabul.
- The head of US Central Command wants more troops for Afghanistan.
- A dangerous new development in Myanmar: the formation of the first Rohingya insurgent group in decades.
- The International Court of Justice declined to reopen the genocide case against Serbia.
- History repeats itself in Ukraine.
- Two weeks after being released from prison, police detained Putin critic and activist Ildar Dadin.
- German lawmakers approved broadened security measures, including expanded video surveillance.
- The US Army is scouting two facilities in northern Germany as potential spots for bases.
- Gen. Paul Selva, the vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, offered the first public confirmation that Russia had deployed a cruise missile in violation of an arms treaty.
- A man who spent years lobbying the Pentagon on behalf of Palantir has taken a job as special assistant to Secretary of Defense James Mattis.
- Attorney General Sessions has said he would adviseTrump to place captured terror suspects in Guantánamo.
- WikiLeaks published a leak of CIA documents largely on hacking and surveillance.
- After reporting that US Marines shared nude photographs of female Marines on Facebook, the scandal has widened to other branches of service.
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