ANKARA, Turkey (AP) – Turkey’s air force hit Kurdish rebel targets in northern Iraq on Monday, hours after a suicide car bombing in the capital killed 37 people and heightened tensions with the militants. Nine F-16s and two F-4 jets raided 18 positions of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, …

GRAND-BASSAM, Ivory Coast (AP) – Survivors of the first attack by Islamic extremists in Ivory Coast described scenes of confusion and fear as the jihadists gunned down defenseless civilians at a beachfront resort town. The attack left 16 dead. Those who make a living off tourism believed the attack on …

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) – Embattled Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff is holding what her agenda describes as a “political coordination” meeting one day after nationwide demonstrations urging her ouster brought millions into the streets. Brazil’s top newspapers said Sunday’s protests were the largest political demonstrations in the country’s history. The …

BEIRUT (AP) – They are as old as the Syrian war: Five-year-old Syrian children growing up as refugees in foreign, unfamiliar places far away from home. They are the silent victims of a horrific war, innocent of the violence that surrounds them yet already familiar with grown-up words like war, …

AMMAN, Jordan (AP) – More than 80 percent of Syria’s children have been harmed by the country’s conflict, including growing numbers of those who were forced to work, join armed groups or marry young because of widening poverty, the U.N. children’s agency said Monday, on the fifth anniversary of the …

NEW YORK (AP) – You can dunk Samsung’s new smartphones in water, but don’t drop them on a sidewalk, a new study finds. SquareTrade, a company that offers extended-protection plans for gadgets, said the Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge still functioned after being submerged in water for 30 minutes. Audio …