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Burundi troops serving with African Union troops in Somalia in new positions established in Deynile on the northernmost outskirts of Mogadishu

A conspicuous show of support has been made for Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.

Protesters take part in a demonstration against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad near Damascus on February 2, 2012.

Many of us doubt that Iran is on the way to building a nuclear bomb.

Trying to find the truth is not easy. It was a bit of a one sided conversation since I don't know the inner workings of the International Atomic Energy Agency, the UN body that monitors nuclear developments.

Israel’s High Court of Justice has ordered Israeli settlers in the Migron settlement outpost in the West Bank to leave by 31 March in response to a 2006 petition filed by seven Palestinian landowners and Israeli pressure group Peace Now. 

Homes destroyed during Israel's Operation Cast Lead have been reconstructed by Turkey's Humanitarian Relief Foundation (IHH)

Iranian lawmakers have finalized a draft bill requiring the government to immediately halt oil exports to Europe in response to the bloc's decision to ban the purchase of oil from Tehran.

Britain will find it 'impossible' to win back the Falkland Islands if Argentina invades them again, one of the country's senior military figures has warned.

For the first time, the Justice Department has made public a series of sensitive messages that passed to the highest levels of the agency within hours of an ambush that killed a U.S. border patrol agent along the Southwest border in December 2010, igniting a national scandal over a gun trafficking investigation gone wrong.

Defense Secretary Panetta and the Joint Chiefs of Staff, joined by Hillary Clinton’s State Department, are fully committed to avoiding the outbreak of war over the Strait of Hormuz. Shown: Navy personnel man a machine gun aboard the guided-missile destroyer USS Dewey, as it transits through the Strait of Hormuz, November 2011.