Afghanistan
Ahmed Rashid: Afghan Taliban (Asia Society)
Argentina
Ex-Argentina Leader to Face Terror Cover-Up Trial - Gil Shefler (Jerusalem Post)
Egypt
Iran
Iran Lists War Aims Against Israel - Michael Rubin (Commentary)
Top Iranian Official Tours Lebanon-Israel Border (Daily Star-Lebanon)
Secret Iran "Terror" Squad in Turkey Unmasked - Sam Kiley (Sky News-UK)
Iraq
In Iraq, Radical Muslim Militias Hunt Down And Kill Gays And Punks - Karlos Zurutuza (Le Temps/Worldcrunch)
Israel
Israel's New Strategic Environment - George Friedman (Stratfor)
Israeli Analysts Deride Notion of Strike on Iran via Azerbaijan - Raphael Ahren (Times of Israel)
White House Denies Leaking Info on Israeli Access to Azeri Airbases - Yitzhak Benhorin (Ynet News)
White House Denies Leaking Info on Israeli Access to Azeri Airbases - Yitzhak Benhorin (Ynet News)
PA
PA TV: "Moses Was a Muslim" - Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik (Palestinian Media Watch)
Syria
Women Under Siege: Documenting sexualized violence in Syria (Women's Media Center) - a new project mapping sexualized violence in Syria through crowdsourcing launched last week. A part of The Women's Media Center's Women Under Siege project, the crowdmap collects the untold evidence of sexual assaults in real time as the Syrian crisis rages—before much of it is lost to shame and silence, as has happened too often during and after armed conflict. This initiative is working with refugee communities in countries bordering Syria to safely measure the exposure women may have had to sexualized violence. Survivors, witnesses, doctors, and human rights workers can report all degrees of sexual assault, its mental and physical consequences, and possible perpetrators via email (siege@womensmediacenter.com), Twitter (#RapeinSyria), or directly to the site. Our goal at the Women’s Media Center’s Women Under Siege project is to tell the underreported stories of women’s suffering in conflict. This effort will provide the media with a remarkable central resource to help them get out the message that these painful, important stories in Syria matter. “Using modern information technology to this end is very welcome,” said Margot Wallström, UN special representative of the secretary-general on sexual violence in conflict.
Turkey
Erdogan, in Iran, Says NATO Radar Could Be Dismantled If Needed (Sunday's Zaman-Turkey)
USA
Male Bonding—Military Massacres By The Book - Kathleen Barry (Women's Media Center)
Lies and the Columbia Journalism Review’s Statistics - Pesach Benson (HonestReporting)
