NABLUS, West Bank (Reuters) – Palestinian security forces arrested 15 Hamas activists, including four university lecturers, in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, in the latest sweep by Fatah against the Islamist group, witnesses said.

GAZA (Reuters) – Hamas released on Thursday a cameraman working with Germany’s ARD news network in the Gaza Strip after a nearly weeklong detention, security sources said.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A growing number of Pakistani militants who earlier operated only inside Pakistan and Kashmir are joining the intensifying insurgency against U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, U.S. officials say.

RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) – Israeli troops wounded three Palestinians in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday in a clash with protesters at the funeral of a 10-year-old boy killed a day earlier, Palestinian medics said.

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.