Kerry: Renewed commitment to 'pluralistic Syria'

ISTANBUL -- One of the Boston Marathon bombings suspects spent 10 days in Turkey in July 2003, Turkish Interior Minister Muammer Gler told reporters April 19. Earlier, Boston police identified the suspects as two brothers of Chechen origin from ...

Behind closed doors in Istanbul yesterday, six world powers gave Iran In marathon 13.5-hour talks, the world powers clarified demands made last month that Iran limit uranium enrichment to 20 percent a level not too far technically from bomb-grade ...

Two Swedish Easter witches are giving up the spring festivities in Sweden to run 3,000 kilometres from Istanbul back home to Stockholm with all their gear packed tight into a pram. Kristina Paltén and Carina Borén are The Local's pick for Swede(s) ...

It is truly a sad state when the group affected the most by the current climate following the Boston marathon bombings have to wait for an outsider to speak some sense on their behalf. It is not that Muslims lack the capacity to express themselves ...

WASHINGTON Three friends of suspected Boston marathon bomber Dzokhar Tsarnaev have been arrested and accused of covering up for him after the April 15 blasts. Azamat Tazhayakov and Dias Kadyrbayev, from Kazakhstan, are accused of obstructing the ...

Japanese author and keen runner Haruki Murakami sent a "personal message" to the victims of the Boston Marathon bombing and said he also felt wounded by the attack on his favourite race. Japanese author and keen runner Haruki Murakami signs ...

ISTANBUL The Obama administration pledged early Sunday to double its nonlethal assistance to the Syrian opposition, to $250 million, after a marathon negotiating session here in which all major international backers pledged to keep their aid to the ...

Watertown, Mass. Police search an apartment complex during the search for a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing. Los Angeles A Los Angeles County Sheriff bomb squad member carries an empty backback from a McDonalds restaurant near the campus of ...

CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS The bombings Monday at the Boston Marathon show little of the evil genius displayed on Sept. 11, 2001 — only diabolical fiendishness. But the bombings occurred at a place, near the finish line, and a time, four hours ...