Ghana defender Samuel Mensah has handed Ostersunds FK an injury boost ahead of Sunday’s trip to Dalkurd FF in the Swedish Allsvenskan league. The versatile guardsman was absent from the Red and Blacks 1-0 home loss to Djurgarden in the opening fixture of the season last Sunday after suffering a minor groin injury. However, the … Read more
Many Iraqi Kurds hailed last week’s announcement of a September referendum on independence as historic, but major obstacles will remain on the path to statehood after an expected landslide “yes”. The autonomous region is still at war with the Islamic State group, it hosts a displaced population of more than a million and its once … Read more
Turkey on Friday warned that a decision by Iraq’s autonomous Kurdish region to hold an independence referendum would be a “grave mistake.” Iraq’s Kurdish region, with which Turkey has forged close trade ties, announced this week that it would vote on whether to split from the rest of Iraq and form an independent region. “We … Read more