What Are the Odds That Israel Just Attacked Sudan? -- Armin Rosen, The Atlantic
It's not often that a government eagerly announces a military facility in its capital city has been destroyed in a stunning and audacious sneak attack, even in light of plausible evidence to the contrary. Yet here we are: Yesterday, Sudanese culture and information minister Ahmed Bilal Osman alleged that the previous evening, four Israeli fighter jets flew over Khartoum from the east and partially destroyed the Yarmouk munitions factory, in the city's south.
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Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials
Hezbollah Prepares for a Wider War Than It May Want -- Ronen Bergman, Bloomberg
Why Lebanon isn't headed for civil war -- Nicholas Blanford, Christian Science Monitor
Momentum builds for Gaza to secede, Israel and West Bank to become one -- Christa Case Bryant, Christian Science Monitor
Turkey Can't Afford Its Saber-Rattling -- Kemal Kilicdaroglu, Wall Street journal
Special Report: Pakistan's threat within - the Sunni-Shia divide -- Michael Georgy, Reuters
Attack on schoolgirl fuels Pakistani conspiracy theories -- Michele Langevine Leiby, Washington Post
A Test Case for the Communist Party’s Commitment to Reform -- Yiyi Lu, wall Street Journal
The Only Option for U.S. China Policy -- Lianchao Han, Weekly Standard
North Korea's railroad to freedom -- James K. Glassman and Amanda Schnetzer, Shadow Government/Foreign Policy
New reasons why the people of Okinawa question the benefits of Japan’s alliance with America -- The Economist
SNP can’t make rules for Europe -- Brian Wilson, Scotsman
US could soon overtake Saudi Arabia as world's biggest oil producer; output is booming -- Jonathan Fahey, The Associated Press
Three horsemen of a weakened U.S. currency -- Satyajit Das, Market Watch