Politics
Power struggle on Baghdad streets as Maliki replaced but refuses to go
Iraq\'s president named a new prime minister to end Nuri al-Maliki\'s eight-year rule on Monday, but the veteran leader refused to go ...Ukrainian forces encircle rebel-held city, talk of truce collapses
Artillery shells slammed into the outskirts of the Ukrainian city of Donetsk on Sunday as government forces tightened the noose around the ...Turkey votes in landmark presidential election
Turks voted Sunday in their first direct presidential election, a watershed event in the country\'s 91-year history that could cement Prime Minister ...Donetsk rebels surrounded, commander says
A top commander of the pro-Russia insurgency in eastern Ukraine said Saturday that Ukrainian forces have seized a key town, leaving the ...Ukraine troops break out of encirclement, 15 troops killed
Ukrainian army units which had been trapped by separatists on the border with Russia broke out of the blockade on Friday and ...Israel says rockets fired from Gaza, violating cease-fire
Two rockets were fired from the Gaza Strip early Friday landing in empty fields in southern Israel just hours ahead of the ...NATO fears ground invasion as Russia masses troops on Ukraine border
Russia has massed around 20,000 combat-ready troops on Ukraine\'s border and could use the pretext of a humanitarian mission to invade, NATO ...Russia to hold war games in show of strength near Ukraine
Russia announced military exercises near the border with Ukraine on Monday in a show of strength as the Ukrainian army recaptured more ...Over 400 Ukrainian troops cross into Russia for refuge
More than 400 Ukrainian soldiers have crossed the border into Russia and deserted the Kiev government, news agency Interfax quoted a border ...Ukraine premier stays on, envoys agree on crash site route
Ukraine\'s parliament rejected Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk\'s resignation on Thursday and finally passed legislation he said was needed to finance an army ...