Given the increased intensity of the fighting in Syria, the United Nations voted for a final thirty day extension of their monitoring mission there, giving the 300 monitors in the country time to safely remove themselves from the country.
CAIRO — Yemen's president lashed out at Iran Thursday for allegedly meddling in his country's internal affairs, after suspected members of an Iranian spy ring were arrested.
Kim Min-Seok, South Korea's Ministry of National Defense spokesman, has acknowledged that his country has raised it's state of alert because of changes in hierarchy in the military of its northern neighbor.
As the most intense fighting in the capital of Syria continues in the 16 month uprising in that country, a suicide bomber set off explosives in the National Security Building in Damascus.