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IDPs at Bangui Airport in the Central African Republic (CAR).

Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon addresses the Security Council during its debate on the Middle East.

Officials in northern Pakistan say a suicide bomber has struck a market near the country's military headquarters, killing at least nine people.

The deputy chairman of the African Union says his organization is working closely with officials of the Central African Republic (CAR) to stabilize security there as the country prepares to elect a new interim transitional president Monday.

A daytime grenade attack on an anti-government rally site in Thailand has left more than two dozen wounded, pointing to an escalation in violence as political tensions rise. The bloodshed has led to senior army commanders calling for negotiations amid fears of further attacks by armed groups.

Civilians fleeing the fighting and seeking refuge, wait outside a compound of the UN Mission in Bor (December 2013).

An entire generation is in grave danger. The #childrenofsyria are watching their futures slip away. They desperately want and need to go to school. To be protected. To be comforted.

Meanwhile, in March 2003, Bush had ordered the long-planned invasion of Iraq, billing this as the next step in the "war on terror." Zelikow faithfully followed Bush and Cheney's lead, in attempting to concoct the case that Saddam Hussein was somehow linked to al-Qaeda and the 9/11 attacks. Zelikow went so far as to feature, as a prominent witness in a July 2003 public hearing, the neo-con crackpot Laurie Mylroie, who blamed Iraq for just about every terrorist attack in the history of the world, including the 1993 and 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center.

Twelve years ago next month—on Sept. 11, 2001—four teams of hijackers commandeered large passenger jetliners on coast-to-coast flights, and flew three of those planes into targets in New York and Washington, D.C., killing almost 3,000 perons. Of the 19 men that made up the hijacking teams, 15 were Saudi Arabian. Many of them, particularly the pilots, had been living in the United States for a year or longer, and had been taking flying lessons at well-known flight schools.

U.S. President Barack Obama says his proposed intelligence gathering reforms should give Americans more confidence that their privacy rights are being protected, even as the government maintains the tools it needs to protect the country.