Kurdish rebels suggested yesterday that clandestine Turkish nationalists may have assassinated three Kurdish activists in Paris, but Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said the killings appeared to have been the result of an internal feud.

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REBELS seized control of one of Syria’s largest helicopter bases on Friday, opposition sources said, in their first capture of a military airfield used by President Bashar al-Assad’s forces.

Fighting raged across the country as international...

PALESTINIANS from villages in the occupied West Bank near Jerusalem pitched tents yesterday on land Israel has earmarked for a new urban settlement, looking to preserve the area for an independent Palestinian state.

Scores of Palestinians erected...

MOHAMED Abdi Hassan, one of Somalia’s most notorious pirate leaders, known as “Big Mouth”, has said he is retiring after years of terrorising the Indian Ocean, generating millions of dollars in ransoms from seized ships.

Hassan, known as...

NO Fewer than 22 people were killed and 80 others wounded when a gas cylinder exploded at a religious gathering in Pakistan’s northwestern Swat valley.

This came as villagers living in Pakistani border side of Kashmir with India are now trapped...

A DAY after Turkey and the jailed leader of the banned group, Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), were reported to have agreed on a peace plan to end a three-decade-old insurgency, Sakine Cansiz,  a co-founder of the organisation and two other...

VENEZUELA'S Supreme Court has ruled that the postponement of President Hugo Chavez's inauguration for a new term in office is legal.

Earlier, the National Assembly voted to give Mr Chavez as much time as he needed to recover from cancer...

THE European Union (EU) has unveiled a new cybercrime centre in a bid to tackle increasingly sophisticated online criminals.

EU Home Affairs Commissioner, Cecilia Malmstroem, said criminal gangs are using new technology to steal identities, empty...

THE Turkish government and jailed Kurdish rebel leader, Abdullah Ocalan, have reportedly agreed on a roadmap to end a three-decade-old insurgency that has claimed tens of thousands of lives, Agence France Presse (AFP) quoted media reports as...

INDIA has accused Pakistani troops of killing two of its soldiers near the tense disputed border between the nuclear-armed neighbours in Kashmir and one of the bodies was badly mutilated.

The firefight reportedly broke out at about noon yesterday...

UNITED States (U.S.) President Barack Obama’s first term was marked by complaints from his liberal base that he had been too conciliatory toward Republicans. And now, with a few days before his second inauguration, analysts are asserting that...

UNITED Nations (UN) chief, Ban Ki-moon, has indicated that President Bashar al-Assad’s speech setting out his terms for peace would not help to end “the terrible suffering” of the Syrian people.

Making this known yesterday, UN spokesman...

THOUGH Chuck Hagel reportedly forged his views of war and the military as a young man in mine-plagued fields of Vietnam, his nomination by President Barack Obama as United States (U.S.) defence secretary – the first Vietnam veteran and first...

AS President Obama’s second inauguration approaches, there is an indication at the weekend that the celebration will be shorter, and almost certainly smaller and less expensive than the gala that drew nearly two million people to witness the...