Michèle Flournoy discusses America's strategy in Afghanistan.

Americans are entranced by a video of South Korean troops reacting emotionally to a surprise concert by an all-girl pop group, but there's more than just cultural differences at play.

Mitchell Silber discusses his book—"The Al Qaeda Factor: Plots Against the West"—with CSIS Homeland Security and Counterterrorism Program director Rick "Ozzie" Nelson.

It's a third day of demonstrations against quickly-rising fuel prices in oil-rich Nigeria. A top government officials is warning that a national strike could plunge the country into anarchy.

Bomb kills Iranian nuclear scientist in an attack Tehran's deputy governor blamed on Israel.

Nicaragua's Daniel Ortega urges Israel to destroy its nuclear arms at a ceremony inaugurating his second consecutive term in office.

Belgian chefs and food fans set a new world record by throwing their trademark white chef hats into the air to mark the start of Brussels' year of gastronomy.

The US treasury secretary, Timothy Geithner, is visiting Beijing this week, hoping to gain China's support for US sanctions on Iran's oil industry.

The death toll has risen to at least 35 after a bombing near a busy market-place in Jamrud in Pakistan's northwestern Khyber region.

Rachel Barnard, Midway Capital Research & Management president, on how the upcoming Greek debt deal should impact the markets, plus her 2012 outlook for a potential economic recovery.

Is China exherting pressure in the South China Sea?

Anwar Malek, an Arab League observer who has just resigned from the mission in Syria, says the mission was a farce and the observers have been fooled by orchestrating and fabricating most of what the delegates saw.  

Violence apparently continues in Syria inspite of promises to the contrary by Pres. Bashar al-Assad.

Voters in Qalyoubiya go to the polls in a runoff during the last round of Egypt's three-stage parliamentary elections.