Canada
U.S., Canada's RCMP Team Up with Islamists - Christine Williams (Gatestone Institute)
Terror's Virus on the Northern Border - David B. Harris (IPT)
India
India Seeks Extradition of Plotter of Attacks on U.S., Israeli Consulates(ColomboPage-Sri Lanka)
Iran
Iranian Nuclear Negotiators Attend Anti-Semitic, Anti-American Conference - Adam Kredo (Washington Free Beacon)
Report: Iran Ordered Hizbullah to Bomb IDF Troops (Ha'aretz) Tuesday's bomb attack on Israel Defense Forces troops on the Lebanese border was ordered by Iran in retaliation for a mysterious fire at the Parchin military research complex in Iran, the Kuwaiti A-Rai newspaper reported on Friday.
Iraq
UN: Islamic State Committing "Staggering" Crimes in Iraq - Stephanie Nebehay (Reuters) Islamic State insurgents in Iraq have carried out mass executions, abducted women and girls as sex slaves, and used child soldiers in what may amount to systematic war crimes that demand prosecution, the UN Human Rights Office reported on Thursday. At least 9,347 civilians had been killed and 17,386 wounded so far this year through September, the report said.
Islamic State Says It Is Selling Yazidi Women for Use as Concubines - Loveday Morris (Washington Post)
Israel
IDF Opens Fire on Infiltrators on Lebanese Border - Yoav Zitun(Ynet News)
Israeli Navy Intercepts Weapons-Building Material Bound for Gaza - Yaakov Lappin (Jerusalem Post)
Why the Gaza War Looked Different on Israeli TV than It Did on CNN - Yonit Levi and Udi Segal(Tablet)
Lebanon
Libya
Ansar al Sharia video features jihadist once thought to be US ally in Benghazi - Thomas Joscelyn & Oren Adaki (Long War Journal)
Palestinians
Palestinians Riot Against Visit to West Bank University by U.S. Consular Officials - Khaled Abu Toameh (Gatestone Institute) It does not matter whether the U.S. officials came to Nablus to help Palestinians. They were attacked because they represent a country that is viewed by many Arabs and Muslims as an enemy because of its support for Israel's right to exist.
Killer of 3 teens "is an angel, the hero among heroes"; PA TV broadcasts interview with killer's mother - Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik (PMW)
Saudi Arabia
"Remove Israel from That Map!" - Khaled Abu Toameh (Gatestone Institute) The Saudi MBC TV network was recently forced to apologize to its hundreds of millions of viewers for using the name Israel instead of Palestine. The condemnations did not come only from Palestinians, but from nearly all the Arab countries.
Turkey
Report: Turkey Traded 180 Jihadists for 49 Turkish Hostages (Hurriyet-Turkey)
Turkish sources deny giving Washington the use of bases to fight IS (Deutsche Welle)
Yemen
Iranian Revolutionary Guard, Hizbullah Assist Houthis in Yemen - Arafat Madabish (Asharq al-Awsat-UK)
Shiite rebels hostile to US and Israel are new masters of Yemen – Hamza Hendawi (Times of Israel) Said to be backed by Iran, the Houthis are poised to become the Hezbollah of the world's poorest and most unstable nation. While the world has been focused on the fight against Islamic State militants in Syria and Iraq, Yemen — located at the southern tip of the Arabian Peninsula — has seen its own sudden, seismic upheaval when Shiite rebels known as the Houthis overran Sanaa two weeks ago.
