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JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military says its warplanes have bombed a series of targets inside Syria. The air sorties early Monday were in response to a cross-border attack that killed an Israeli teenager the previous day. In all, Israel says it struck nine military targets and "direct hits were confirmed." The targets were located near the site of Sunday's violence in the Golan Heights.
BAGHDAD (AP) — There appears to be no end in sight for the growing sectarian violence in Iraq. Officials say twin blasts by a suicide bomber and a car bomb Sunday targeted an Iraqi general's funeral in the restive Anbar province, killing eight people and injuring 13. Also Sunday, Sunni insurgents captured two border crossings. They've seized four towns in Anbar province since Friday.
SEATTLE (AP) — Friends are mourning a well-known outdoors writer and wilderness inspiration who'd been missing for three days on Mount Rainier. Searchers found a woman's body on Saturday. But the National Park Service says it'll be up to the local medical examiner to confirm that the body is 70-year-old Karen Sykes. She became separated from her hiking partner on Wednesday.
VICTORVILLE, Calif. (AP) — Officials suspect foul play in the deaths of two inmates at a federal prison in Southern California. A prison spokesman says the inmates died late Saturday and the FBI is investigating their deaths as homicides. No prison workers were harmed. All inmates remain on lockdown at the Victorville facility.
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The Greek Coast Guard says it has found nearly a ton of heroin stashed in a suburban Athens warehouse. The discovery follows another 1-ton seizure in the Athens area on June 12. Coast Guard officials say both stashes arrived on a tanker that picked them up in "waters between Oman and Pakistan." Greek officials say U.S. drug agents helped in the seizure.
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