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Souleiman says he was just 17 when he embarked on the long journey through West Africa to Europe. Along the way, he says he was imprisoned and held for ransom.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been in politics for thirty years. CNN's Oren Liebermann takes a look at how he rose to the top.

Civilians caught in the middle of conflict: homes destroyed, hospitals bombed. Turkey's offensive in Afrin, Syria is now almost a month old. For the Yazidi minority, the ultimate fear is persecution. CNN'S Ben Wedeman reports.

Iran issued a strong warning to Israel on Monday in response to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's fiery speech at last weekend's Munich Security Conference.

Read CNN's Fast Facts about Mardi Gras, a celebration held the day before the fasting season of Lent begins on Ash Wednesday.

Vladimir Putin looks set for another landslide victory in the upcoming Russian presidential election, but Novosibirsk isn't Putin country.

Read CNN's Robert Levinson Fast Facts and learn more about the American who went missing in Iran in 2007.

The Russian government denied Monday that it had interfered in the 2016 US election campaign in the Kremlin's first remarks since 13 Russian nationals were indicted Friday on charges of conspiring to defraud the US.

At least 71 people were killed and 325 others wounded in rebel-held Eastern Ghouta after the Syrian government carried out a series of airstrikes and artillery bombardments, the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Monday.

Read CNN's Fast Facts and learn more about commercial passenger airplane crashes.

Read CNN's Fast Facts on major rail accidents since 1900.

In a pre-emptive strike, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu blamed media "pressure" for a new police investigation, less than a week after police said they had enough evidence to indict the Israeli leader for corruption in two separate cases.