Turkey warns it will strike Kurdish militants in Iraq and Syria after a suicide bombing in Ankara

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s foreign minister warned on Wednesday that Kurdish militants behind a suicide bombing in the Turkish capital face robust retaliation against their group’s positions in Syria and Iraq. The outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, claimed...

Turkey hits Kurdish militant targets in Iraq and detains about 1,000 people days after Ankara blast

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish warplanes carried out new airstrikes against suspected Kurdish militant sites in northern Iraq on Tuesday, days after a suicide attack in the Turkish capital. Police, meanwhile, detained almost 1,000 people in raids across Turkey. A defense ministry...

Editorial Roundup: Nebraska

Lincoln Journal Star. September 28, 2023. Editorial: Prison changes mark progress, can’t end there Nebraska’s prison system has made progress over the past eight years in reducing the number of incarcerated persons in “restrictive housing,” better known as...

Turkey strikes suspected Kurdish militant targets in northern Iraq after suicide attack in Ankara

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish warplanes carried out airstrikes on suspected Kurdish militant targets in northern Iraq on Sunday following a suicide attack on a government building in the Turkish capital, Turkey's defense ministry announced. Some 20 targets of the Kurdistan...

Turkish warplanes bomb suspected Kurdish militant targets in northern Iraq following suicide attack in Ankara

Azerbaijan charges the former head of Nagorno-Karabakh's separatist government with financing terrorism, other crimes

Teen testifies about boy's death and firearms training at New Mexico compound

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — With his hand placed on his son's neck, Siraj Ibn Wahhaj recited verses of the Quran as part of a ritual meant to rid the toddler of evil spirits that Wahhaj and members of his extended family believed were causing the boy's ailments. The ritual known as...

Abduction and terrorism trial after boy found dead at New Mexico compound opens with mom's testimony

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Federal prosecutors presented tearful testimony Tuesday from the mother of a sickly toddler who was whisked away from his Georgia home by relatives without her permission to a remote desert encampment in northern New Mexico where he died. Four family...

Cuba's ambassador to the US says Molotov cocktails thrown at Cuban embassy were a 'terrorist attack'

WASHINGTON (AP) — Cuba’s ambassador to the United States says a weekend incident in which at least one incendiary device was thrown into the Cuban embassy compound was a “terrorist attack.” The Cuban embassy's chief of mission, Lianys Torres Rivera, told The Associated Press...

India and Canada steer clear, in UN speeches, of their dispute over Sikh separatist leader's killing

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Indian and Canadian diplomats didn't directly address their countries' row over the killing of a Sikh separatist leader, but they obliquely underscored some key talking points as they addressed world leaders at the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday. Foreign...