CIA-Backed Afghan Paramilitaries Behind Unlawful Killing Surge - Patricia Gossman (Just Security) 

To End the War in Afghanistan, the U.S. Reaches Out to Its Rivals (Stratfor) 

Facebook, Google, Apple promote slave trade apps - Lauren Wolfe (Women's Media Center)

Slave markets found on Instagram and other apps - Owen Pinnell, Jess Kelly (BBC News Arabic)

Kuwait moves on Instagram slave traders after BBC investigation - Owen Pinnell, Jess Kelly (BBC News Arabic)

Palestinians in Gaza Launch Ten Rockets at Israel - Amos Harel (Ha'aretz)

Al-Baghdadi's Brother Traveled to Istanbul as His Courier for Months - Jack Moore (The National-Abu Dhabi)  

Turkey: Arming Genocide of Christians in Nigeria? by Raymond Ibrahim (Gatestone Institute) Nothing new here See this AIE post from 2014: Did Turkey arm Boko Haram? - Michael Rubin (American Enterprise Institute)

U.S. Military Convoy Comes under Fire from Turkish-Backed Forces in Syria (RT-Russia)

BBC Arabic radio promotes Israel-free map of ‘Palestine’ for children (BBC Watch)

Sut Jhally Is Not the Victim - Dexter Van Zile (The Algemeiner) Chairman of the communications department at UMass Amherst and his incessant and counter-factual propagandizing against Israel must be held accountable.

FBI Scrutinizes Over 2,000 Cases Tied to Foreign Terrorist Organizations - Masood Farivar (Voice of America) 

The Cyrus Debate Confirms the Truth of Jewish History in Jerusalem - Rivkah Fishman-Duker (Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs)

Germany Charges Two Syrians with Crimes Against Humanity (Deutsche Welle-Germany)

FYI Hizbullah/Hezbollah is often referred to as "Iran-backed Hizbullah"

Hezbollah’s “Virtual Entrepreneurs:” How Hezbollah is Using the Internet to Incite Violence in Israel - Michael Shkolnik, Alexander Corbeil (Combating Terrorism Center at West Point)

Moroccan Activist Arrested for Protesting Against Israel's Participation in Exhibition (Middle East Monitor-UK)

What do you call a dead Terrorist? - Daniel Pomerantz (Honest Reporting- video) Washington Post calls Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, an "austere religious scholar"

Five Things You Should Know About The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)" (IPT-video)

U.S., Gulf Countries Impose Joint Iran-Related Sanctions on 25 Targets - Doina Chiacu (Reuters) 

Middle East Realities: Political, Economic, and Strategic - Bernard Haykel (Vital Interests/Center for National Security)