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The United States is expanding its military presence in Africa to counter the growing influence of al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb and other militant groups throughout North and West Africa.

Young Syrian refugees at Jordan’s Za’atri camp.

Afghan forces say they are ready to retaliate against Pakistan for cross-border shelling along the country's northeastern border. Analysts in both countries are extremely concerned about what the situation means for the future of the region.

Syrian rights activists say government warplanes have bombed a northern town near the Turkish border, killing 21 people, as heavy fighting spread within the old city of Aleppo, Syria's commercial capital.

Training course on emergency response to chemical weapons.

Emergency workers in Hong Kong say at least 36 people died after two passenger boats collided in Victoria Harbor.

Malian refugees in Niger.

Iraqi officials say a wave of bombings struck Shi'ite neighborhoods, security forces and other targets across the country Sunday, killing at least 32 people and wounding scores of others. At least eight cities and towns were hit.

Kairat Umarov , Acting Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

At its most recent peak of drought, famine and conflict, the UN refugee agency reported that more than 135,000 Somalis had fled their homes with a quarter of Somalia’s 7.5 million people estimated to be either internally displaced or living outside the country as refugees.