As Numbers Continue to Climb, Top Officers Meet Monthly to Look for Answers.

Obama needs to spell it out to the Israeli government: your weapons of mass destruction are just as dangerous as Iran’s

The UN has appealed for a total of $543m in humanitarian aid to help more than 1.6 million people displaced by fighting in north-west Pakistan.

Associated Press Writer MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) Renewed fighting between government troops and Islamist insurgents in the Somali capital killed seven people on Friday, residents and an independent radio station said.

Somalia’s Western-backed government forces have launched a major attack against Islamist militants in the capital, Mogadishu.

MAOZ ESTHER, West Bank (AP) — Israeli security forces demolished a minor Jewish settlement outpost in the West Bank on Thursday, three days after President Barack Obama told visiting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that he must halt settlement activity.