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Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson for protracted conflicts, Ambassador Andrii Deshchytsia, chairing a 5+2 meeting on the Transdniestrian settlement process in Lviv, 19 February 2013.

Syrian rebels fired mortar rounds at one of President Bahsar al-Assad's palaces in Damascus Tuesday, as the death toll climbed to at least 31 from a separate missile strike late Monday in the northern commercial city of Aleppo.

A scene from Lido beach in Mogadishu, Somalia.

The gunmen came for Syrian Islamist rebel commander Thaer al-Waqqas riding in a battered white car. As they arrived, he was shouting orders at a food supply depot in the town of Sermin, a few kilometers from the border with Turkey. He had no time to defend himself as the gunmen got out of the car and riddled him with bullets.

Israel is drawing a parallel between North Korea and Iran, saying nuclear proliferation by rogue states could turn the Middle East into a “tinderbox.”

The European Union has eased its Zimbabwe sanctions, lifting travel bans on six members of the government and an asset freeze on an additional 21 Zimbabweans.

UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry (CoI) on Syria members: Chairperson Paulo Sergio Pinheiro (left) and Karen Koning AbuZayd.

A U.S.-based Internet security group is accusing the Chinese government of direct involvement in a sophisticated campaign of cyber attacks against American businesses, government and critical infrastructure.