ISTANBUL / AP A Turkish news agency says Turkish shelling and air strikes by the US-led military coalition killed 27 IS militants in Syria. Citing military sources, the state-run Anadolu agency said the militants were killed on Sunday as they were about to fire rockets toward Turkey. The Turkish border town of Kilis has been pummeled in recent months ...

  SEOUL / AFP South Korea, the United States and Japan will hold their first joint military training next month focused on cooperating to detect signs of missile launches from North Korea and trace missile trajectories, a Seoul defense official said on Monday. The drills, set for around June 28, will be held on the sidelines of biennial multinational naval ...

  Dhaka / AFP Bangladesh police have arrested a senior official from the main opposition party and accused him of plotting against the state following his meeting with an Israeli political adviser, an official said on Monday. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s government is stepping up a crackdown on political opponents in Muslim-majority Bangladesh, which is also reeling from a wave ...