Three separate bombing incidents on Monday and Tuesday are the latest in a wave of deadly militant attacks in Pakistan that have left scores dead and hundreds injured. A car bomb exploded at a police family compound Tuesday in Kohat, killing twenty people and injuring at least forty as they were breaking the Ramadan fast. According to a hospital worker, most of the victims were women and children.

President Barack Obama signed an executive order last week applying new economic sanctions against individuals and companies in North Korea for their involvement in the trafficking of arms and narcotics, money laundering, currency counterfeiting, and the procurement of luxury goods destined for North Korean leadership.

Mexico's federal police have captured major drug lord Edgar "La Barbie" Valdez, thought to be one of North America's most powerful cartel leaders. Nicknamed "La Barbie" for his fair complexion and blue eyes, Valdez's capture marks another coup in Mexican president Felipe Calderon's war against the powerful drug cartels.

Efraim E. Diveroli, a Miami based arms dealer who at age 21 was awarded a $300 million dollar contract with the Pentagon to purchase and ship munitions to Afghan security forces fighting the Taliban, has been arrested on federal firearms charges in Florida.

Women, War & Peace Field Producer Leslie Knott describes a visit to the Afghan Women's Education Center, a non-governmental organization that teaches women skills ranging from computer literacy to embroidery.

A leaked United Nations report detailing atrocities committed by Rwanda in the 1990s may be considered genocide, according to French newspaper Le Monde. Last Thursday, the paper published excerpts of a 545-page report by the U.N.’s Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights that lists more than 600 atrocities committed in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) between 1993 and 2003.

Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi on Sunday delivered a lecture to a gathering of 500 Italian women in which he is reported to have attempted to convert them to Islam. According to Italian media outlets, three women converted on the spot.

Holland’s pristine city, The Hague, feels every inch the 864 miles away it is from Sarajevo. But within the halls of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, tales from war-torn Bosnia - of genocide, torture, mass rape and sexual enslavement - stand in stark relief to the beautiful city outside.

An aide to Afghan President Hamid Karzai, who has been under investigation in a bribery case since July, is allegedly on the CIA’s payroll. The news comes comes as the U.S. is trying to step up pressure on Karzai and his administration to combat pervasive corruption in the Afghan government.

Colombia's government has always struggled to enforce authority over its own territory. Tensions still exist between the country and its breakaway republics, among clashing indigenous and Afro-Colombian constituencies, and between the government and powerful criminal cartels. The very idea of a centralized government fueled two major civil wars, the latter of which was sparked by an assassination in 1948, and never really ended.

The United Nations human rights office in Colombia joined Vice President Angelino Garzon on Wednesday to demand an investigation into threats and murders of human rights workers across the country.

Rebel groups in the Congo raped nearly 200 women and four baby boys during a weekend raid last month. The rapes are reported to have occurred only 10 miles from a U.N. peacekeeping base between July 30 and August 3 in North Kivu, an eastern province of the Democratic Republic of Congo that sits on the border with Rwanda.

Women, War & Peace Field Producer Leslie Knott visits the remote Afghan town of Bamiyan, where the Taliban destroyed historic Buddhas but couldn't rid the land of its inherent beauty.

Actor and humanitarian Angelina Jolie's next film project will take her to Sarajevo to star in a movie about the Bosnian war. She was in Bosnia and Herzegovina on Saturday to meet with senior political leaders and returning refugees from the three-year war, which took place between 1992-1995.