Albanian Police Say Iranian Terror Cell Planned to Attack Exiles (AP-Guardian-UK)

Israel and Gulf States Are Going Public with Their Relationship (Bloomberg)

Guilt By False Association: Israel ‘Noted in Particular’ - Simon Plosker (Honest Reporting) There is no credible reason that Israel should be “noted in particular” other than the hateful agenda of Zinevich and The Independent.

In Government Daily, Jordanian Diplomat Defends Peace Treaty With Israel, Condemns Those Who Attack It (MEMRI)  - other reports I've read said both Israeli and Jordanian press are ignoring the anniversary or are hostile to it

Hamas Arrests Dozens in Bid to Deter Gaza Protests - Elior Levy (Ynet News)

Five Brothers, Five Countries: A Family Ravaged by Syria’s War - Michael Safi (The Guardian)

Pentagon: U.S. to Send Additional Troops to Syria to Protect Oil Fields from ISIS (AP-CBS News)

The following viewpoint is interesting, but ignores the fact that we asked Kurds to dismantle bridges, trenches and tunnels just prior to announcing they're on their own.

Some Uncomfortable Truths about U.S. Policy in Syria - Aaron David Miller, Eugene Rumer and Richard Sokolsky (Politico)

• Putin did what the Obama and Trump administrations would not - intervene in the Syrian civil war. Putin won the Syrian civil war, and he deserves its spoils. And what spoils they are - a war-torn society, a ruined economy, bombed-out cities, and millions of refugees. If Putin wants to take on the burden of rebuilding Syria, fixing what his air force destroyed, and brokering peace among Syria's many factions, then we should let him.
• But the idea that Putin's Syria gambit will allow him to take over the Middle East is just silly. Few, if any, core U.S. interests - halting nuclear proliferation, preserving Israel's security, preventing terrorist attacks against the homeland, and maintaining the flow of oil from the Persian Gulf - are likely to suffer.
• Rather than chase unrealistic ambitions, the U.S. should remain focused on what its core interest in Syria has been since 2011: countering the threat from ISIS. The conditions that created ISIS are not going to go away. But Washington should assume that at some point Assad and his allies will act in their own self-interest - and they all want to prevent a resurgence of ISIS.
• More importantly, attacks by ISIS, while horrific for the people of Syria, should not be conflated with a heightened threat to the American homeland. It has been 18 years since the U.S. suffered a terrorist attack that was planned and executed by foreign jihadists. Attacks on the U.S. homeland may well continue to be committed by radicalized U.S. citizens, but that problem won't be solved by maintaining American troops in Syria.