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Yemen’s Crisis

NEWS BRIEF At least 9,000 people, including nearly 4,000 civilians, have been killed in fighting in Yemen in the past 18 months. Now, the United Nations wants some accountability. The conflict between the Sunni government of Yemen and the Houthi rebels has gone unchecked, says […]

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Carnage in a Kurdish Town in Turkey

A car bomb killed 11 police officers and injured almost 80 at a checkpoint in southeastern Turkey on Friday. The Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK, a banned Kurdish political party, claimed responsibility for the attack in the city of Cizre, on the border with Syria […]