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Pakistan has freed Afghan Taliban deputy commander Abdul Ghani Baradar in a attempt to jumpstart a tumultuous peace process in neighboring Afghanistan as most NATO troops prepare to leave the war-torn country by the end of 2014.

Iran's newly elected President Hassan Rouhani has pledged to join in constructive dialogue with world powers.

The son of Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf resigned his post as chairman of the National Oil Company of Liberia (NOCAL).

One person has died after being hit by stones in Bangladesh as demonstrators protest the death sentence of a senior Islamist leader for war crimes committed in the country's 1971 war for independence from Pakistan.

Andrii Deshchytsia (l), the Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office for Conflicts, alongside Gerard A. Fischer, the interim Head of the EU Monitoring Mission in Georgia, at the 37th meeting under the Incident Prevention and Response Mechanism, Ergneti, 16 September 2013.

Delegates from 50 countries across Africa, Europe and the Persian Gulf came together in Brussels to sign a ‘New Deal Compact’ to help rebuild Somalia,
after two decades of civil war and lawlessness. The plan sets out government spending priorities and future international support.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon speaks to reporters following Security Council consultations on Syria.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen and the country's main opposition leader are holding talks for a second time to find a way to resolve a political crisis that has escalated into deadly violence.

Ships at the port of Turkmenbashi, 7 July 2009.