RFE/RL in the Media
# Kevin Klose appointed RFE/RL President and CEO
# UPI covers attack on former RFE/RL Ukrainian Service journalist
Syria
# "Chemical Watershed: Momentum Shifts again in Syrian Civil War" - Christoph Reuter and Holger Stark, "Spiegel"
# "When Chemical Weapons are Smart Politics" - Joshua Keating, Slate
# "The Administration’s Proposed Syria AUMF Is Very Broad " - Jack Goldsmith, Lawfare
# Jeffrey Sachs says U.S. responsible for crisis in Syria
# "Lessons of Iraq, Vietnam: Now Syria" - Mark Silva, Bloomberg
Middle East
# "The Revolution That Wasn't" - Hugh Roberts, "London Review of Books"
# Israel and Saudi Arabia: "Working together separately"
# 70% of Iran municipalities bankrupt, according to local news
Afghanistan/Pakistan
# "Top-Secret U.S. Intelligence Files Show New Levels of Distrust of Pakistan" - Greg Miller, Craig Whitlock and Barton Gellman, "The Washington Post"
# "The Untold Story of the Battle of Bastion" - Matthieu Aikins, "GQ"
# Pullout brings "Bush Market" in Afghanistan
Russia
# Children of gay parents hide family ties
# Were there any good alternatives to the reset?
# Putin and Obama could see common ground on offshore tax havens
# Pew measures how the world views Russia
Central Asia
# "Afghanistan Backdrop to Xi's Central Asia Visit" - Christopher Bodeen, AP
Balkans
# Gender equality in Kosovo
Caucasus
# Armenia agrees to join Russian customs union
Of Interest
# A journey "into the bellies of America's enemies"