The Rundown -- June 19

# Global Voices cites RFE/RL Tajik service on Google blockage in Tajikistan

# YahooNews uses RFE/RL Azerbaijani service video of Lavrov presser in Baku

# "Gertrude of Arabia, the Woman Who Invented Iraq" - Clive Irving, Daily Beast

# ISIL's 2013 annual report

# How ISIL is gaming social media

# In occupied cities, ISIL walks fine line between restraint and metting out its version of Islamic law

# Militants in Iraq and Syria are trying to re-create a nation that never existed

# "Half-Price Kurdish Oil Threatens Iraq Breakup With Turkish Help" - Bloomberg

# Video: BBC reporter trapped in fighting between Kurdish fighters and ISIL

# Rohani promises to defend Shi'ite shrines against "killers and terrorists"

# Saudis give tacit worning to Iran: don't meddle in Iraq

# "Conflict in Iraq Adds New Angle to U.S.-Iran Nuclear Talks" - David Sanger, "New York Times"

# Clinton urges caution

# Abdullah protests ballot counting, claiming widespread fraud

# "Why Afghanistan Won't End Up Like Iraq" - The Diplomat

# Why Pakistan's Taliban offensive "is a very big deal"

# Twitter restores access to content it blocked last month

# Separatists reject cease-fire; seek "urgent help" from Moscow

# "My Mind-Melting Week on the Battlefields of Ukraine" - Julia Ioffe, "New Republic"

# U.N. report says at least 356 are known to have been killed since March from fighting in Ukraine

# "Illusions Gone, I'm Leaving Russia" - Leonid Bershidsky, "Moscow Times"

# Writers, including two Nobel prize winners, condemn Russian "waves of propaganda"

# Biden warns of "further costs" to Russia over Ukraine crisis

# Gazprom to start China gas pipeline in August

# Battles between police and drug dealers in Albanian village

# Kosovo Serbs take down barricades, replace them with flower pots

# Azerbaijan shuts down Gulen-linked schools

# Kazakhstan bill toughens penalty for underage alcohol sales and bans sales after 9PM

# Kyrgyzstan moves closer to Russia-like LGBT legislation

# Taking a look at the "New York Times'" CMS

# You can now share animated GIFs on Twitter