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The sudden emergence of another organized militant Islamist-terrorist group, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), aka the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), or simply IS, along the Iraqi-Syria borders, was not really "sudden" at all. A series of West-organized military actions, particularly the Iraq invasion of 2003, invasion of Libya in 2011, and arming and facilitating the passage of Islamists and terrorists, in the garb of freedom fighters, to Syria to dismantle the Assad regime, has served to bring together thousands of hard-core Islamic terrorists, from as many as 50 countries, who have for years been funded and indoctrinated by the Saudis, Qataris, and Kuwaitis, with the "kill them all" Wahhabi-Salafi vision of Islam, to establish what ISIS calls the Islamic State.

A 15-minute phone call made just under a year ago may be what historians say set the stage for a landmark nuclear agreement with Iran – if one is achieved by a November 24 deadline.

Hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced by the ongoing conflict in eastern Ukraine, many being women with children.

Pakistan’s powerful military has stepped in to act as “mediator and guarantor” to broker a deal between embattled Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and two anti-government leaders calling for his ouster.

A South Sudanese rebel official said there can be no lasting peace in the country as long as President Salva Kiir is at the helm of government.

A White House official says the U.S. is working to confirm reports of a second American possibly killed while fighting alongside militants in Syria.

Hong Kong anti-corruption officials have raided the home of media mogul Jimmy Lai, whose publications are often critical of mainland China.

Syrian refugees gather around for the once-a-day water delivery in Za'atari camp in northern Jordan.

Mr. Maher Nasser, the Acting Head of UN DPI with the planning team of the conference at the last conference planning meeting.