Pro-government Syrian forces continue to make headway in that country as fierce fighting ends in the strategic border town of Qusair with Assad's troops and Hezbollah re-taking the city.
U.S. Army Staff Sgt Robert Bales appeared in court on Wednesday and pled guilty to 16 counts of murder, six counts of attempted murder and seven counts of assault for the crimes he committed in March of 2012.
The Chairman of the United Nations Commission of Inquiry on Syria, Paulo Pinheiro, presented a report drawn up by a panel of United Nations human rights experts today detailing the war crimes committed by both Syrian and opposition forces in Syria.
The oldest member of the Senate and the last surviving World War II survivor in the Senate passed away due to complications of viral pneumonia in New York's Presbyterian Hospital at 4:02 am this Monday morning.