Middle East
Suicide truck bomb blamed on PKK kills 11 police in Turkey
A suicide truck bombing at a police headquarters in Turkey\'s largely Kurdish southeast killed at least 11 and wounded dozens on Friday, ...Bolivian deputy minister killed by miners
Bolivian miners kidnapped, tortured and beat to death a deputy minister who tried to negotiate with protesting workers on Thursday, in what ...Russia backs 48-hour Aleppo truce, U.N. wants other sides to commit
Russia has agreed to a 48-hour humanitarian ceasefire in the divided Syrian city of Aleppo to allow aid deliveries, but security guarantees ...Thousands march over dissolved Ecuador teacher union
Thousands of demonstrators marched in Quito and other Ecuadoran cities Thursday against the socialist government of Rafael Correa and its dissolution of ...More Turkish tanks head to Syria after IS-held town seized
At least 10 more Turkish tanks on Thursday crossed the border into Syria a day after pro-Ankara Syrian opposition fighters ousted jihadists ...UN rights chief demands international probe of Yemen violations
The United Nations called on Thursday for the creation of an independent international body to investigate an array of serious violations in ...Syria regime, Kurds agree truce in Hasakeh
Regime forces and Kurdish fighters agreed on Tuesday to a truce in the northeastern Syrian city of Hasakeh after a week of ...Several killed in attack on wedding in southeast Turkey
At least 50 people were killed in a southeastern Turkish city close to Syria when a suspected suicide bomber linked to Islamic ...Haunting image of Syrian boy rescued from Aleppo rubble
Syrian opposition activists have released haunting footage showing a young boy rescued from the rubble in the aftermath of a devastating airstrike ...Russia says Syria raids from Iranian base do not violate UN resolution
Russia on Wednesday dismissed a suggestion from Washington that Moscow is violating a UN Security Council resolution by using an Iranian air ...




