Thursday

August 18, 2016

Armed conflicts and attacks

Kurdish–Turkish conflict (2015–present)

Three bombings targeting police and military kill at least 12 people and wound 219 in southeast Turkey. (BBC)

Syrian civil war

Syrian government warplanes bomb Kurdish-held areas of Al-Hasakah for the first time in the country's five-year civil war, killing at least 13 people. (BBC) (Reuters)

Law and crime

Eddie Bauer reports that malware was used to access payment data for cards used at their stores; payments made via their website were reportedly unaffected. (Reuters)

U.S. District Judge Jane Triche Milazzo sentences former NFL player Darren Sharper to 18 years in prison in rape and drugging case involving as many as 16 women in several U.S. states. (BBC)

Mexico's National Human Rights Commission says 22 people were executed by federal police during the 2015 Ecuandureo shootout in the western state of Michoacán last year. (BBC)