Security officials set up barricades at entry points into city earlier Tuesday, to check for suspicious vehicles, causing heavy traffic jams

Turkish warplanes bombed Kurdish separatist positions in northern Iraq on Monday. The head of Iraq’s border guards in Dahuk Province, Col. Hussein Tamor, said no civilians were hurt. The Turkish military confirmed the strike.

A Libyan ship headed to the Gaza Strip with 3,000 tons of aid, flouting an Israeli blockade, was turned back Monday by the Israeli Navy, ending the first high-profile attempt by an Arab country to break the blockade. Analysts said the incident showed that Arab and Islamic nations, while eager to end Gaza’s isolation, would not risk military confrontation with Israel. The freighter Al Marwa was approaching the Gaza coast when it was stopped by an Israeli Navy vessel and ... more

Iraq’s prime minister had said the Kurds were pursuing several unconstitutional policies, including the development of an oil business independent of Baghdad.

Famed Chinese-born American architect I.M. Pei designed five-story museum, which stands on an artificial island