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Kurd-Shi'ite clashes in northern Iraq kill eight: sources

Clashes between Kurdish and Shi'ite Turkmen paramilitary forces broke out late on Saturday in northern Iraq, killing at least eight people and cutting a strategic road between Baghdad and the oil city of Kirkuk, security and medical sources said. Violence in Tuz Khurmatu, about 175 km (110...

Armenian migrants in Turkey wary of political tensions

A century after her forebears fled massacres in Turkey for Armenia, Alla has gone the other way, hoping to win Turkish citizenship after leaving her impoverished homeland. She works as a nanny in Turkey but fears deportation, one of thousands of undocumented workers from the former Soviet...

Opposition suspends participation in Geneva peace talks

The main opposition High Negotiations Committee says it is pulling out of formal mediation citing a worsening situation in Syria. Assad's regime has been accused of more than 2,000 violations since the end of February. The latest interruption to the on-off peace talks, brokered...