Trouble, trouble, everywhere....

(AP) Turkey shells Kurd rebels in Iraq

(Reuters) "Turkish warplanes flew 20 km (13 miles) into Iraq and some 300 ground troops advanced about 10 km..... All Turkish troops involved in the operations had returned to Turkey."

(HeraldSun) "The Bush Administration is considering air strikes, including cruise missiles, against the Kurdish rebel group PKK in northern Iraq." (How does that fold into Iraqi politics? What happens when he US kills Kurdish civilians?)

(AP) "Pakistan's army has sent 2,500 paramilitary troops into a remote valley in the country's northwest to combat followers of a militant cleric calling for Taliban-style rule, a military spokesman said Wednesday."

(AFP) "The United States was to press its European allies Wednesday to provide more troops and equipment to combat the insurgency in Afghanistan, at NATO defence ministers' talks in the Netherlands."

(WaPo) ISIS claims to have satellite photos showing what they believe to be a Syrian nuclear site targeted in an Israeli air strike last month. (Still nothing from the US, Syria, or Israel.)

And, after all that, (AP) Condi Rice says that Iran is the major obstacle to the U.S. vision of a peaceful Middle East.