The Rundown -- August 11

# BBC cites Frud Bezhan's interview with expert on Iraq crisis

# Latin Post cites RFE/RL reporting on Iraq crisis

# Kyiv threatens to cut off flow of Russian oil and gas to Europe

# "Why Arming Ukraine is a Bad Idea" - Kimberly Marten, "Washington Post"

# Ukraine strategy gambles on restraint by Russia

# Is the battle for Ukraine's east about fracking?

# Exxon Mobile starts drilling in Russian Arctic

# Will Russia start blocking websites in real time?

# "Daching: How to Get Beaten Up in the Russian Countryside" - Aleksei Ermenko, "Moscow Times"

# "Putin's War Against Russia's Last Independent TV Channel" - Tikhon Dzyadko, "Guardian"

# The most important sentence in Obama's Iraq statement

# "One Man’s Journey To Become the First American Suicide Bomber in Syria" - Mike Giglio, Buzzfeed

# Opportunity for Moscow in Iraq instability

# "Oil and Irbil" - Steve Coll, "New Yorker"

# At least 39 killed in Iranian plane crash

# "Sex of every kind" taking place outside marriage in Iran

# Iran's "war on journalism"

# "Iran Ignores a Lucrative Deal Over its Nuclear Activities" - Reuel Marc Gerecht and Mark Dubowitz, "Washington Post"

# New Kerry-brokered Ghani-Abdullah deal

# Amnesty says U.S. concealed "war crimes" in Afghanistan

# Afghanistan lessons learned

# Imran Khan calls for million-strong protest to pressure Pakistan government

# Kazakhstan won't participate in Russia food import ban

# Putin holds talks between Armenia and Azerbaijan presidents