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Syrian refugees queue up for UNHCR relief items in Tripoli, northern Lebanon.

U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta is in Israel for the start of talks that will include sensitive discussions on what to do about Iran's nuclear ambitions. Earlier, Panetta stopped in Cairo, where he had praise for Egypt's new leadership.

Ohio National guard members from the 637th Chemical Company, decontaminate a role player during Vibrant Response 13 at Muscatatuck Urban Training Complex, Ind., July 26, 2012. Vibrant Response 13 is a major field exercise conducted by U.S. Northern Command and led by U.S. Army North. Over 5,000 service members and civilians form the military and other federal agencies throughout the country are training to respond to a catastrophic domestic incident.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.

Lt. General Babacar Gaye, head of the UN Supervision Mission in Syria, speaks to the press in Damascus.

Senegal is inaugurating a new parliament Monday with a coalition led by the president's party holding a large majority.
The day's mantra among citizens and new lawmakers is “a break from the past” -- a past in which parliament was seen as serving the political elite rather than the people.

Michael Dunbar, Civil Support Training Activity, U.S. Army North, briefs Army Staff Sgt. Michael King and Sgt. 1st Class Wendell Reed after the two detected radiation from a nearby parked car at the Muscatatuck Urban Training Center, Ind., as part of Vibrant Response 13, a catastrophic incident exercise conducted by U.S. Northern Command and led by U.S. Army North. King, the survey team chief, and Reed, the chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear noncommissioned officer, both with the 45th Weapons of Mass Destruction Civil Support Team, Tennessee Army National Guard, were clearing a route to an area hospital for the scenario.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (centre) visits the memorial in Srebrenica for the 1995 massacre of 8,000 Muslim men and boys by Bosnian Serb forces.