Media: Soldiers kill 4 suspected militants

Media: Soldiers kill 4 suspected militants

ANKARA, TURKEY

Turkish soldiers on Saturday killed four suspected Islamic State militants in a clash near the border with Syria, the country’s state-run agency reported, as world leaders began to gather for an economic summit.

The Anadolu Agency said two cars believed to be carrying IS militants approached an armored military vehicle, ignored warnings to stop and opened fire on the soldiers. The soldiers responded, killing four militants inside one of the cars. The second car escaped, Anadolu said.

Baltimore records 300th homicide of ’15

BALTIMORE

Baltimore has recorded its 300th homicide of the year. Police Commissioner Kevin Davis said Saturday evening that it was a “sad homicide milestone.” He said that “it’s important to pause and vow to continue our collective fight to find a better path forward.”

The 300th victim was a 27-year-old man who was stabbed multiple times Saturday and died. It’s the first time since 1999 that the city has recorded 300 homicides. In 2014, the city saw 211 killings for the year. Baltimore crossed the 200 death mark in August.

The homicide rate in Baltimore began to skyrocket in May after a period of civil unrest after the death of Freddie Gray, a black man who died from injuries suffered in police custody.

Hundreds protest Mormon LGBT policy

SALT LAKE CITY

Several hundred people with roots in the Mormon faith gathered in Salt Lake City on Saturday to renounce the church’s new policies targeting gays and their children in an event that marked the latest illustration of the fervor the rule changes have caused.

Billed as a mass resignation by Mormons, people filled out paperwork and dropped off the resignation letters at a church building. The large majority had stopped attending church years ago. But they said the new policy that bans baptisms for children of gay parents until the kids turn 18 and disavow same-sex relationships spurred them to come and formally cut ties and have their names removed from the faith’s membership rolls.

Official: IS leader in Libya likely killed

washington

An American airstrike has targeted and likely killed a top Islamic State leader in Libya, in a strike that happened just as the Paris terrorist attacks were underway, the Pentagon said Saturday.

Pentagon press secretary Peter Cook said the U.S. strike targeted Abu Nabil, also known as Wissam Najm Abd Zayd al Zubaydi, an Iraqi national who was a longtime al-Qaida operative and the senior Islamic State leader in Libya. This was the first airstrike against an Islamic State leader in Libya and comes on the heels of a U.S. and British operation late last week in Syria that officials believe likely killed Islamic State militant Mohammed Emwazi. Emwazi was a Kuwaiti-born British citizen known as “Jihadi John,” who appeared in several videos depicting the beheadings of U.S. and Western hostages.

4 still critical after crash of tour bus

SAN FRANCISCO

Four adults remain in critical condition at a San Francisco hospital Saturday after an open-air tour bus careened out of control, running down a bicyclist, striking two pedestrians and smashing into several moving cars before it plowed into scaffolding lining a construction site.

San Francisco General Hospital spokesman Brent Andrew said six victims of Friday’s crash still in its care suffer from facial and head injuries as well as fractured ribs, arms and legs.

Associated Press