YEREVAN  - A Russia-led regional security group began large-scale military exercises in Armenia on Saturday, the most significant war games ever to be staged in the ex-Soviet state, the defence ministry said. Around 2,000 troops from Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia and ...

Turkey and Armenia were set to take an historic step towards reconciliation here on Saturday, by signing pacts to normalise ties after nearly a century of bitterness over their blood-soaked past. Armenian Foreign Minister Edouard Nalbandian and Turkish counterpart Ahmet Davutoglu will sign the two ...

An Iraqi police official says that a bomb planted in a parked car killed four people and wounded six, including three policemen, in the city of Tikrit, north of Baghdad. The official says Tuesday's blast occurred at 7:30 a.m. (local time) on amajor Central Street used by local government officials ...