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Israeli soldiers have killed a Palestinian teenager during clashes in the West Bank, where Israel is carrying out a weeklong military operation following the disappearance of three Israeli teenagers.

An Iraqi woman from Mosul carries her son at the Garmava transit camp, located near a checkpoint on the road between Mosul and Duhok in Iraqi Kurdistan. The camp will have the capacity to host some 3,000 people.

Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko is set to unveil a 14-point peace plan Friday that is designed to end a deadly pro-Russian separatist insurgency in the country's east.

UNICEF is scaling up its support to conflict-affected communities in north-eastern Nigeria to improve health, nutrition, and water and sanitation services.

U.S. President Barack Obama is considering a range of military options to help the Iraqi government break the momentum of Islamic militants determined to crush the government in Baghdad. The Iraqi army has partially disintegrated in the face of these attacks, despite years of training and funding by the United States.

Addressing participants at the 28th meeting of the Geneva International Discussions, Angelo Gnädinger, the OSCE Chairmanship’s Special Representative for the South Caucasus, spoke of the need to maintain substantive dialogue. He encouraged participants to move beyond their established positions, to listen and learn from each other.

An internally displaced woman folds clothes at a sanatorium in Ukraine that has been welcoming people from Crimea.

Sunni Islamist militants have attacked Iraq's main oil refinery, causing damage to the site in the latest stage of a surge that has included seizing territory across northern Iraq.

A bomb blast at a site where Nigerian soccer fans had gathered to watch the World Cup has killed at least 13 people.

Chinese and Vietnamese officials meeting in Hanoi have expressed a willingness to improve ties strained by a dispute over an oil rig Beijing recently placed in contested waters off Vietnam's coast.