- IISS’ John Jenkins: The new great game in the Middle East
- The jihadist plan to use women to launch next incarnation of ISIS
- Hezbollah, on the rise in Lebanon, fends off Saudi Arabia
- WaPo Editorial on Russia’s support for Assad
- "The Battle for the Lands of the Caliphate," Clifford May, The Washington Times
- Islamic State raises stakes with Egypt mosque attack
- Egypt attack to spur on Saudi-backed Muslim military alliance: crown prince
Lebanese Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri said on Monday that the political and militant group Hezbollah must stop interfering in regional conflicts and accept a neutral policy to bring an end to Lebanon’s political crisis. - Reuters
Many of the 305 people slaughtered at a mosque in the village of Rawda on Friday had moved there to escape clashes between the Islamic State and Egyptian security forces elsewhere in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, witnesses said. - Washington Post