Iran

Iran, Hizbullah Linked to Bombing in Bahrain - Habib Toumi (Gulf News-Dubai)

Kuwait Seizes Arms Cache Linked to Hizbullah (Reuters)  Kuwait authorities seized 19,000 kg. of ammunition, 144 kg. of explosives, 68 weapons and 204 grenades. Kuwait's al-Anba reported that the weapons cache had been smuggled from Iraq and stored by members of a cell linked to Iranian-backed Hizbullah.
Courtesy of the Nuclear Deal: Iranians Visiting a Nuclear Plant Near You? - Claudia Rosett (PJ Media)

Russian Warships Dock in Iran for Training Exercises - Adam Kredo (Washington Free Beacon)

 

The Palestinians
UN Chief Condemns Rocket-Firing from Gaza towards Israel (Xinhua-China)

Nabbed Hamas man reveals new Gaza war plans - Stuart Winer (Times of Israel)

PA dedicates another square to murderer- Itamar Marcus (PMW)

Abbas to Visit Iran in November - Khaled Abu Toameh (Jerusalem Post)

The Secret Ethnic Cleansing of Palestinians- Khaled Abu Toameh (Gatestone Institute)

Pakistan

Dr. Shakil Afridi, a Pakistani physician who helped the U.S. locate Osama bin Laden, has been in jail in Pakistan since he was arrested days after the raid on bin Laden's compound in 2011. In 2013, he was granted a retrial, with a new charge that appears politically motivated: charged with murder in regard to the death, eight years earlier, of a patient he had treated. Afridi has gone on a hunger strike protest his unspeakable prison conditions -- including torture. His former lawyer, Samiullah Khan Afridi, was murdered by the Taliban in March 2015. The Obama Administration appears to have abandoned him.

Syria

“I will always remember where I was when Cecil The Lion was killed” by “Mohammed,” a Syrian war refugee (Mideast Dispatch) I am sorry it is taking me so long to post my outrage over Cecil the Lion. My village has been without electricity for the last week after the Americans bombed our power plant. I had to walk for two days – hiding from ISIS along the way – before I found this Internet cafe. But my anger over the death of Cecil is still hot as the desert sands...

 

If you haven't already, I urge you to read Matti Friedman's review of The Two-State Delusion by Padraig O'Malley. He concludes with: A reader of this book could be excused for thinking the implosion of the entire region is mainly an irritant in the Israeli-Palestinian affair