Kirkuk / AFP Kurdish peshmerga forces and Turkmen Shiite paramilitaries were Sunday engaged in clashes that have killed at least nine people in a flashpoint town during the past 24 hours, officials said. Tuz Khurmatu, part of a swathe of territory claimed by both Iraq’s autonomous Kurdish region and Baghdad, has been divided between Turkmen and Kurds since fighting …

  London / AFP US President Barack Obama warned on Sunday that it would be a “mistake” to send Western troops into Syria to overthrow the regime of President Bashar Al Assad. In an interview with the BBC, he said the United States would continue strikes against the IS group while continuing efforts to broker a transition deal between the …

SANAA / AP Hundreds of Yemeni troops loyal to the internationally recognized president have launched an operation to drive Al Qaida and IS fighters out of southern coastal areas the extremists have seized amid the country’s complex civil war, security officials said on Sunday. They said the forces loyal to President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi are receiving air support from …