
Police were dispatched to a school in the German town of Menden after an alert was triggered in what local authorities have since confirmed was a false alarm. Local broadcaster Radio Hellweg earlier reported that students were told to lock themselves in their classrooms and a police helicopter was seen ...

Turkey said Wednesday fewer than 100 ISIL ‘jihadists’ were still holed up in a flashpoint Syrian town which has seen the bloodiest clashes of Ankara’s half-year campaign inside the conflict-torn country. Speaking to NTV television, Defense Minister Fikri Isik said half of the town of Al-Bab was in the hands ...