There was confirmation out of the United Nations today that 20 peacekeepers with the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) in the Golan Heights border region of Syria have been captured by a Syrian militia group
It took two years for the crisis in Syria to escalate to the point where 1 million Syrians have been officially registered by the UN Refugee Agency. The actual number of people who fled is likely to be higher.
Cambodia's beleaguered war crimes tribunal is facing another obstacle: translators have gone on strike, protesting months of work without pay, and the one ongoing trial has been adjourned "indefinitely."