- Amid still escalating violence after the failure of U.N. action on Syria, regime forces unleashed an assault to retake neighborhoods of the capital Damscus following five days of fighting there and a bombing that killed four top regime officials, forcing thousands of residents to flee.
- American officials told the New York Times that the suicide bomber who killed five Israeli tourists in Bulgaria was carried out by the Lebanese group Hezbollah “acting under broad guidance” from Iran in “tit for tat” retaliation against alleged attacks inside Iran. Israeli officials kept up promises to respond, likely, analysts say, in the form of covert action.
- Despite, for months since its leadership change, denying plans to significantly advance its nuclear program, a spokesman for the North Korean Foreign ministry said U.S. hostility was causing the isolated dictatorship “to totally reexamine the nuclear issue.”
- Russian authorities detained four people in relation to attacks on Muslim leaders in a restive province. President Vladimir Putin has called for religious tolerance amid fears that extremists operating in the province might seek to destabilize the situation.
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