CINAR, Turkey (AP) – Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu says Turkish artillery have attacked Islamic State group positions in Iraq and in Syria in retaliation to the suicide bombing in Istanbul which killed 10 tourists. Davutoglu said Thursday Turkish military targeted 500 extremist positions along the border with Syria and …

JERUSALEM (AP) – Israel’s 92-year-old former President Shimon Peres suffered a “mild” heart attack Thursday but was in “excellent” condition following a heart procedure, his personal physician said. Peres was rushed to a hospital near Tel Aviv from his home on Thursday morning after he fell ill with chest pains …

BOULOGNE-SUR-MER, France (AP) – A French court must decide whether a British man who went on trial Thursday is a smuggler or a hero after he tried to spirit a 4-year-old Afghan girl from a squalid migrant camp in the French city of Calais to family members in Britain. Just …