The United States has sent mixed signals to the former Soviet state that now finds itself partially occupied by Russian troops. ...more

August 15, 2008

Tiny Kosovo - poor, mostly Muslim but feverishly pro-Western - braced itself Saturday for a historic declaration of independence from Serbia, a decade after a war that killed 10,000 people followed by years of limbo under U.N. rule. ...more

February 17, 2008

Kurdish guerrillas watch the border for any signs that Turkey's military will carry out threats to sweep across. ...more

November 15, 2007

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Friday that he is prepared for a rupture in relations with the United States if his government launches an incursion into northern Iraq in search of Kurdish rebels. ...more

October 13, 2007

The government here reacted angrily Thursday to a House committee vote in Washington to condemn the mass killings of Armenians in Turkey during World War I as genocide, recalling its ambassador from Washington and threatening to withdraw its support for the Iraq war. ...more

October 12, 2007