Back from the dead.

South Sudan: the world's newest country is soon to get its new currency, and no sign of a new perspective coming out of Khartoum. In an International Crisis Group (ICG) report, more questions than answers about Syria's uprising and the regime's surprising response. Canada's un-celebratory close of operations in Afghanistan urges us to ask: should this world-class military return to base as border tensions continue unabated. The tense politics of military aid plays out between U.S. + Pakistan. U.S. Secretary of State Clinton recognizes Assad's illegitimacy. George Monbiot argues for journalists' pledge like Hippocratic oath to hold power to account. Is there another side to the sordid story? Post-invasion Mosul may mark a combustible province Iraq.