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Al-Rustumiya, an informal settlement for displaced people on the outskirts of the Iraqi capital Baghdad.

Iran called on the region to unite against Israel after a reported attack on Syria and said it was ready to train the Damascus government's army.

Ahead of Malayasia's elections on Sunday, independent online media say they are being targeted in Internet attacks which filter content and throttle access to websites, threatening to deprive voters of their main source of independent reporting.

U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel says the United States is rethinking its opposition to arming Syrian rebels.

Somali families displaced at Dhobley near the Somalia-Kenya border.

South Korea says it is making progress with the North on allowing the return of its workers who remain at a suspended joint industrial zone just north of the border.

Pakistan's army chief, Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, center, presides the Corps Commander Conference at General Headquarters in Rawalpindi, Pakistan.

Officials in Russia say President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Barack Obama have agreed to increase contacts between their countries' intelligence agencies following the Boston Marathon bombings.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Russian President Vladimir Putin met Monday in Moscow in the first meeting between leaders of the two countries in 10 years.