London / AFP A section of the Turkish military, the second-largest army in NATO after the US’, caught the world off guard on Friday by staging an attempted coup. The move stunned Turkey observers, who believed President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of the Islamic-rooted Justice and Development Party had brought the secular-minded army to heel. Acting army chief General Umit …

  WASHINGTON / AFP US President Barack Obama was huddling with top national security advisers in the White House Situation Room on Saturday to address the destabilizing coup attempt in Turkey. The government of Recep Tayyip Erdogan appears to have repelled the plot, but the situation remained fraught and tensions between Washington and Ankara appeared to be growing. In a …

  Nice, France / AFP The IS group claimed responsibility on Saturday for the truck massacre in Nice which France said was “a new kind of attack,” as it faced hard questions over security failures. In a statement via its Amaq news service, IS said one of its “soldiers” carried out Thursday night’s attack “in response to calls to target …