Backed by U.S. airstrikes, “allied tribesmen” in Iraq are getting close to taking back Ramadi from ISIS.

+ Al-Shabaab militants in Kenya usually follow a familiar script. They pull over a bus. They single out all the Christians on the bus. And then they spray them with bullets. But this time, “the Muslim passengers, who were mostly women, told the Islamic militants to kill them all or leave them alone.”