Islamism

With elections in Tunisia slated for Sunday, women and moderates are worried that surging Islamist parties will roll back the liberal policies that have set Tunisia apart from the rest of the Arab states.

As ISIS grows its reach into new countries, the US and its allies are debating whether those affiliates should be attacked. And that decision has a lot to do with who’s considered a part of ISIS at all.

Since the beginning of this year, three bloggers have been hacked to death in Bangladesh. They were attacked on busy streets and in broad day light. Many say the Bangladeshi government is not doing enough to protect the country’s bloggers.

The Afghan government is having trouble containing an attack on the important northern city of Kunduz, which appears to be under fire from a new alliance of Taliban and ISIS fighters that the provincial governor calls a new Taliban — and a new war.

After Edward Snowden, the US government said its controversial surveillance programs had stopped a terrorist – David Coleman Headley. But a number of Snowden documents show otherwise.