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A young child looks on as older boys play football next to a camp for internally displaced persons (IDP) in Mogadishu, Somalia.

Violence may have subsided in Iraq, but it has upended the lives of millions across the country, leaving one in four children in poverty and pushing families to extreme measures to survive.

Children fetch water in the town of Douma in the East Ghouta area of Rural Damascus, Syria.

Secretary-General António Guterres (left) and Thomas Bach, President of the IOC, hold a joint press encounter at the IOC office in Pyeongchang, Republic of Korea.

An elderly woman begs for food at a camp for internally displaced persons on the outskirts of Dinsoor, Somalia.

Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos said Thursday that he was boosting the military presence along the border with Venezuela as tens of thousands of Venezuelans have tried to escape food and fuel shortages and a clampdown on civil rights.

A judge has granted a chemistry professor from Bangladesh, who is living near Kansas City, a temporary stay from deportation, two weeks after immigration agents arrested him at his home.

Dr. Lassina Zerbo (l-r), Executive Secretary of the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO), H. E. Ambassador Maria Assunta Accili Sabbatini, Chairperson of the CTBTO Preparatory Commission, and Marta Žiaková, Chairperson of the Nuclear Regulatory Authority of Slovakia at the meeting of the Forum for Security Co-operation, Vienna, 7 February 2018.

A senior U.S. cybersecurity official has told NBC News that Russian hackers successfully penetrated the voter registration rolls of several U.S. states prior to the 2016 presidential election.