Haggard and covered in blood, little Omran's blank stare shook the world. But across war-torn Syria, thousands of children like him are traumatized by daily life under bombs and siege.

From Mali to Afghanistan, Syria and Iraq, Islamist fighters have regularly turned their sights on the priceless vestiges of peoples' cultural heritage -- for being un-Islamic.

The International Criminal Court on Monday opens the trial of a jihadist on a charge of war crimes for the destruction of shrines at the World Heritage site of Timbuktu in Mali.

Libyan pro-government forces have cornered Islamic State group fighters in a few pockets of Sirte, but defeat there will be far from the end of IS in Libya, analysts say.

Boko Haram's list of victims -- dead, displaced or abducted -- grows longer by the day.

Kids can be seen cleaning windshields or juggling in clown makeup on street corners in Guatemala's cities.

Simmering tensions between Russia and Ukraine have soared unexpectedly in recent days after Moscow accused Kiev of attempting armed incursions into the Crimea peninsula it annexed in 2014.

The charge list against the United States within Turkey over last month's failed coup is long and, for some, damning.

Only a miracle can save recession-hit Brazil's suspended president Dilma Rousseff from being sacked for good now that senators have voted to open an impeachment trial, analysts say.

The scandal is expected to end 13 years of leftist rule in Latin America's biggest economy, currently rocked by economic and political instability as it hosts the Olympic Games.

Sometimes even good friends can have a bad falling out.

While grain silos in many Western countries may overflow this winter, tens of millions of people risk going without food as hunger is being used more than ever as a weapon of war.

More than 50 million people living in 17 conflict-ridden countries are in "severe food insecurity," two U.N. agencies warned recently.