UNITED NATIONS

Tens of thousands of Syrians have fled into Turkey since the start of the 16-month long uprising -- 300 refugees crossed the border on Tuesday night -- but Syrian rebels seized two border check points last week, burning a number of Turkish trucks.

KRG is seeking to combine the various Kurdish factions in Syria under one unified umbrella.

Britain has contingency plans to send a powerful fleet to Syria; France may even send an aircraft carrier; Russia is sending 11 ships; and then there are the Americans. Are they all there just to bring back any evacuated civilians?

Republicans torpedo a treaty in the Senate, and the U.S. remains outside the bounds of a major international maritime agreement. Together with a few unsavory names

Speaking on the first day of the 2012 International AIDS Conference in Washington, D.C., chief executives from over 20 leading multinational corporations called upon 46 countries to lift travel restrictions on HIV-positive individuals.

The Syrian army's response to the rebel siege of Damascus has created military-control vacuums in other parts of the country that have been exploited by rebel forces.

A national election is expected to take place in Zimbabwe next year. Without sanctions to condemn, Mugabe would be hard-pressed to find something else to blame.

Hill, who has an IQ of 70, will be put to death via lethal injection, despite the U.S. Supreme Court's ban on the execution of mentally disabled prisoners.

Iraqi troops mobilized to seal border crossings into Syria on Friday after Syrian rebels occupied government posts on their own side of the border.

A group of U.S. Congress members demanded on Friday that the United Nations take responsibility for the cholera outbreak that hit the nation of Haiti beginning in 2010. The UN has so far not implicated itself in the incident.

What guns laws are like elsewhere in the world, and how the U.S. outranks every other nation in gun ownership

As of July 18, 120,000 Syrian refugees (perhaps many more) have also sought protection in Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq and Turkey.

China uses Africa conference as an opportunity to respond to foreign criticisms of its expanding relations with the continent.

In an echo from the final weeks of Saddam Hussein's reign in Iraq in 2003, Syrian President Bashar al Assad has reportedly retreated to his tribal homeland as rebels advance on Damascus.

The deaths of major Syrian military leaders in a spectacular strike on the capital are tipping the playing field, but don't expect the conflict to end anytime soon.

Yemen is going through a difficult political transition after the ouster of president Ali Abdallah Saleh, but that isn't as bad as its humanitarian crisis

Syrian rebels said they shot down an army helicopter Tuesday as they battled government forces backed by air power and artillery in the fiercest fighting to hit Damascus yet.

Russia has already said it would to veto the resolution, which first proposed by Britain, the United States, France and Germany. China is expected to vote against the draft as well.

While the world's deadliest famine has officially ended, remaining food shortages coupled with insecurity and fighting between African Union forces and militant group al-Shabab have wreaked havoc on the nation and its people.

Taliban militants have threatened aid workers trying to administer the polio vaccine in Pakistan, putting the lives of 250,000 children in the remote regions of South and North Waziristan at immediate risk.

Western Australia’s reputation as the world’s deadliest place for shark attacks has made it a tough sell for prospective tourists, and local authorities have asked the federal government to consider lifting the ban on fishing of great whites to help alleviate the problem.