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Kurdish protesters set fire to a barricade blocking the street as they clash with riot police in Diyarbakir, Turkey, on October 7, 2014.

‘The Kurds have no friends but the mountains’

Conflict

With Kurdish fighters in the city of Kobane trapped between ISIS attacks and Turkish indifference, anger inside Turkey is building. Nineteen Kurdish protesters were killed overnight, and it looks like Kobane may still surrender to ISIS despite US airstrikes.

Turkish tanks taking up position on the Turkish-Syrian border on September 29, 2014, after stray fire landed on Turkish territory. Turkey is concentrating forces along the border ahead of a parliamentary debate on authorizing military intervention in Syri

Turkey prepares to make a military move into Syria, but NATO needs convincing

Conflict

Firefights in eastern Ukraine suggest the situation there is growing even more grim

Global Politics

Firefights in eastern Ukraine suggest the situation there is growing even more grim

Global Politics
A militia man stands guard at a checkpoint Friday about a hundred yards from unmarked military trucks that have sealed off Sevastopol's airport.

Mystery troops blockade airports in the Crimean region of Ukraine

Conflict & Justice
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