- Armed conflicts and attacks
- Syrian Civil War
- If the House voted today on a resolution to attack Syria, President Barack Obama would lose — and lose big. (Politico)
- President Barack Obama is facing growing international opposition to military intervention in Syria as China, the European Union and the Pope all warned against attacks on the Assad regime. (Telegraph)
- Vice President Joe Biden hosted a late-afternoon briefing on Syria with a small set of House and Senate members in the White House Situation Room on Thursday, according to a White House official. (Politico)
- Russia says that a deadly March sarin attack in an Aleppo suburb was carried out by Syrian rebels, not forces loyal to President Bashar Assad, and it has delivered a 100-page report laying out its evidence to the United Nations. (McClatchy)
- Syrian Rebels execute 7 Syrian Army soldiers (New York Times)
- A branch of al-Qaeda fighting in the Syrian civil war has seized one of the few remaining villages where Western Aramaic is still spoken, residents say. (Telegraph)
- The US State Department is maintaining a travel warning advising Americans not to travel to Syria because the Al-Nusrah Front has carried out about 600 attacks in the country since November 2011. (CNS News)
- Rep. Michael Grimm (R-N.Y.), who on Saturday said he supported President Obama’s decision to launch military action in Syria, has changed his mind. (Washington Post)
- Rep. Alan Grayson, D-Fla., who is aggressively lobbying against a military strike on Syria, says the Obama administration has manipulated intelligence to push its case for U.S. involvement in the country's two-year civil war. (US News)
- Political violence in Egypt (July 2013–present):
- Business and economy
- Microsoft wins a much-watched lawsuit, with a federal judge finding that Motorola had breached agreements about the licensing of its patents. (BBC)
- Disasters and accidents
- Deaths
- Bengali writer Sushmita Banerjee whose book about her escape from Taliban-ruled Afghanistan was made into a Bollywood movie, Escape from Taliban, shot by suspected Taliban militants.
- Sport
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