Turkish jets join coalition in airstrikes against ISAFP, AnkaraTurkish fighter jets have carried out their first airstrikes as part of the U.S.-led coalition against the self-styled Islamic State (IS) group in Syria, Turkey announced on Saturday.A Foreign Ministry statement said the jets began attacking IS targets late Friday across the border in Syria that were deemed to be threats to Turkey.After months of hesitance, Turkey agreed last month to take on a more active role in the fight against IS.Turkish jets used smart bombs to attack IS positions in Syria, without crossing into Syrian airspace and later granted US jets access to a key air base close to the Syrian border.38 girls die in road crash on way to Swaziland beauty pageantAFP, Mbabane A road accident in Swaziland killed 38 girls and seriously injured 20 others who had been on their way to a traditional ceremony where King Mswati III can choose a new wife, pro-democracy activists reported.The accident happened Friday night when their open truck smashed into a car on the road between the tiny kingdom’s two main cities, Mbabane and Manzini, en route to the traditional Reed Dance, activists said.”A total of 38 young girls have been pronounced dead, with more than 20 others seriously injured,” said Lucky Lukhele, a spokesman for the Swaziland Solidarity Network which campaigns for democracy in the landlocked kingdom within South Africa.Thai police hunt more bomb blast suspectsReuters, Bangkok Police probing Thailand’s deadliest bombing widened their search for more suspects on Sunday after a foreigner was arrested and stacks of fake passports and bomb-making materials found during a raid on a Bangkok apartment block.Authorities said police were monitoring about 1,000 mobile phone numbers and checking photographs used in some 200 seized passports to track down members of an unspecified group they believe orchestrated the Aug. 17 attack on a Hindu shrine in Bangkok. The bombing killed 20 people and stunned Thailand.Chad executes 10 Boko Haram suspects by firing squadAFP, N’Djamena Chad executed 10 alleged members of Nigeria-based Islamist group, Boko Haram, by firing squad Saturday, a day after they were found guilty of a double suicide killing that left 38 people dead in the capital N’Djamena.”They were executed this morning on a shooting ground north of N’Djamena,” a judicial source told AFP. The report was confirmed by a security source who asked not to be identified.The 10 were condemned to death Friday in the country’s first trial of presumed members of the Islamist group. The hearings opened Wednesday.
