Istanbul, Turkey / AFP Turkey on Thursday detained 13 suspected IS extremists over the deadly Istanbul airport attack, as chilling details emerged of how suicide bombers launched their assault. The death toll from Tuesday’s gun and suicide bomb spree at Ataturk airport has risen to 42, state-run news agency Anadolu said, with 13 foreigners among the dead and more than 200 …

  Kabul, Afghanistan / AFP The Taliban on Thursday attacked a convoy of buses transporting police cadets in Kabul, officials said, killing at least 27 of them and wounding 40 in two powerful explosions. The incident, which was condemned as a “crime against humanity” by President Ashraf Ghani, comes little over a week after 14 Nepali security guards who were heading …

  Gaziantep /AFP As Liberia’s security forces take over on Thursday from UN peacekeepers for the first time since civil war ended 13 years ago, national pride is mixed with fears the underfunded police are not up to the task. Government forces and rebel groups raped, massacred and maimed hundreds of thousands of people during two conflicts between 1989 and …