
- Turkey has said it was taking steps this week to prepare for a cross-border incursion into northern Iraq to hunt down Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) fighters holed up in the Qandil Mountain range.
- Israeli troops are massing on the Lebanese border as Lebanon's president warned his army is ready to defend the country should Israel launch a full-scale ground invasion.
- NATO's top commander said Friday the alliance will expand its Afghan mission to include the entire country, including the lawless east where militants killed a coalition soldier in the latest fighting.
- Fears of war in Somalia are growing as Ethiopian troops allied with Somali government advance against Islamist militias.
- Iraqi leaders seem to be losing faith in their ability to establish a functional government and seem to believe the dark days of civil war are ahead.
- The United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti said in a statement that armed groups have attacked stations belonging to the Haitian police and UN peacekeepers.
- The leader of the Chechen rebels have dismissed the July 19th Russian amnesty offer and Chechnya's Moscow-backed president says any further extensions are unlikely.

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total buzzkill, brah. when is that String Cheese show again?