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Federica Mogherini held on 17 Feb. a series of bilateral meetings in the margins of the G20 Foreign Ministers' meeting in Bonn and of the Munich Security Conference.

The government of Bangladesh and the World Bank on February 19 launched a cash benefits program for 600,000 of the country’s poorest mothers and pregnant women in exchange for their participation in activities to improve their children's nutrition and cognitive development. The World Bank has committed $300 million for the program, which will benefit over one million children.

With the approval of the government of Iraq, Coalition forces struck an ISIS command and control headquarters and propaganda facility Feb. 17 in western Mosul, Combined Joint Task Force Operation Inherent Resolve officials reported.

Secretary-General António Guterres.

Children look over the wall on the roof of their house at clouds of smoke from oil wells which were set on fire by ISIL when they fled Qayyarah, a town south of Mosul.

An Air Force airman, assigned to the 447th Expeditionary Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, prepares the tail section of a GBU-54 Laser Joint Direct Attack Munition bomb at Incirlik Air Base, Turkey, Oct. 29, 2016. The bombs built and delivered by the airmen are primarily used by the A-10 Thunderbolt II, an aircraft designed for close air support of ground forces.

A pastoralist in northern Somalia, a region hit hard by drought. He lost almost half of his sheep flock that originally numbered 70.

On 13 February 2017, first grade students, including Sasha (in red sweater), 6, hide during shelling in a part of the school building with strong walls.

A young girl collects water in the Shabelle IDP settlement in Garowe, Somalia, 1 July 2014.

Nickolay Mladenov (shown on screen), UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Personal Representative of the Secretary-General to the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Palestinian Authority, briefs the Security Council via video teleconference.