ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkey’s highest court is expected to make a statement regarding a case to close the governing party on charges of Islamist activities on Wednesday, Turkish broadcaster NTV said.

ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Nine people were detained on Wednesday in connection with two bombs in Istanbul on Sunday that killed 17 people and injured 150, state-run news agency Anatolian reported.

SARAJEVO (Reuters) – Genocide, siege and massacre are for many people in Bosnia more than just words on Radovan Karadzic’s indictment. They represent years of suffering, dead friends and nightmares that will always haunt them.

THE HAGUE (Reuters) – The U.N. chief war crimes prosecutor pledged on Wednesday to conduct the genocide trial of Radovan Karadzic efficiently, learning from the unfinished trial of former Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic.

SARAJEVO (Reuters) – Bosnia’s top peace envoy Miroslav Lajcak lifted a travel ban for the family of Bosnian Serb former leader Radovan Karadzic, who was extradited to The Hague war crimes tribunal on Wednesday after 11 years on run.

KABUL (Reuters) – More foreign fighters are joining the ranks of Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan as militants increasingly cross the border from Pakistan to attack Afghan and Western troops, the Afghan Defense Ministry said on Wednesday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A top Central Intelligence Agency official traveled to Islamabad and confronted senior officials with evidence of ties between Pakistan’s spy agency and militants operating in that country’s tribal areas, the New York Times reported in Wednesday editions.

(Reuters) – A British soldier in Helmand province, southern Afghanistan, was killed in a firefight with Taliban militants on Tuesday, Britain’s Ministry of Defense said on Wednesday. Here are figures for foreign military deaths as a result of violence or accidents in Afghanistan since the Taliban government was toppled in …

LONDON (Reuters) – A British soldier was killed in a firefight with Taliban militants in southern Afghanistan, Britain’s Ministry of Defense said on Wednesday. The soldier, from the 2nd Battalion of the Parachute Regiment, was on a routine patrol in Helmand province when his unit was attacked on Tuesday. He …

THE HAGUE (Reuters) – War crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic will appear before the U.N. war crimes tribunal in The Hague for the first time on Thursday, the court said, and will be asked to enter a plea to the charges against him.