Aleppo / AFP Rebel and regime bombardment in Syria’s Aleppo on Sunday killed at least 14 civilians, emergency workers and a monitor said, on the third day of renewed violence in the battered city. Rebel rocket fire on government-held parts of the northern city killed six civilians, including a woman and two children, said the Syrian Observatory for Human …

  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 …