In northwestern Turkey on April 27, a suicide bomber killed herself and injured eight others, none critically, near the Grand Mosque in Bursa, a manufacturing city boasting Ottoman-era architecture.

Among two other suicide bombings reported last month to have taken place in Turkey in March (May ’16, pg. 15) was one on March 19 in Istanbul. Three Israelis (two of whom also were US citizens) and an Iranian were killed and dozens more people were injured when a suicide bomber...

In Lusaka, capital of Zambia, two days of violence on April 18-19 left two people dead, 250 arrested and 60 Rwandan-owned shops looted.

Rwandans make up the largest group of immigrants in Zambia, many having moved there after the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. In March and April of this year, following what were apparently ritual killings, the mutilated bodies of six men were found in the Lusaka area. Fueled by charges of police negligence as well as frustration over high unemployment and...

In Iraq, a mostly peaceful march of tens of thousands of people on April 26 was the largest of the protests held in Baghdad in the previous weeks. Calling for an end to corruption and for a vote on new government representatives, the crowd walked from Tahrir Square to the gates of the Green Zone, where they threatened to storm parliament, which was in session. Iraq’s prime minister has been trying to appease protesters by replacing ministers, but parliament has been paralyzed by...