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Fifteen border guard officers from the Main Directorate of Tajik Border Troops during a two-week OSCE patrol winter course in the mountainous area of Khoja Obigarm, Tajikistan, January 2014.

Equipment being loaded onto the RAF C-17 aircraft.

The U.S. Air Force should shift missions and personnel from the active component to the reserve component, but maintain its current size, a congressional panel recommends after a year of gathering testimony about the service.

Angry protestors pelt policemen with stones in central Cairo on the second anniversary of the 2011 revolution that ousted long-time President Hosni Mubarak from power.

Thailand's anti-government protesters are vowing to oust Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra and her family from politics even if Sunday’s elections reaffirm her popular support. As tensions mount, Thai experts say mediation is needed to prevent further violence.

Taiwan announced it will hold ministerial-level talks with China next month. The two sides are likely to discuss issues that would advance Beijing’s goal of unifying the two separately ruled sides.

Demonstrators in Cairo, Egypt, stand amid makeshift barriers on 27 July 2013.

Journalists should have been granted full access to report on the ball of academic associations in the Hofburg in Vienna last Friday, OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović said.

On Monday, the discussion is to turn to the core issue of these talks, the political future of Syria. Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Makdad said Sunday that President Bashar al-Assad is not going anywhere.

Norwegian Foreign Minister Borge Brende calls the newly signed cease-fire in South Sudan "very shaky," but says it is possible for the country to get back on track.