The UN's expert on torture was Monday beginning a week-long visit to Turkey following claims prisoners have been ill-treated in the wake of the July failed coup. Nils Melzer, special rapporteur on torture, arrived in Turkey on Sunday and will speak with alleged victims and inspect detention...

Israel's air force targeted gunmen linked to ISIS in Syria overnight, the army said Monday, after they fired on an Israeli soldier in the occupied Golan Heights. "Overnight the (Israeli air force) targeted an abandoned UN building that has been used by the Islamic State as an operations...

(Zaman Al Wasl- Agencies)- Syrian regime forces have captured a key part of eastern Aleppo, splitting rebel-held territory. Both regime-run TV and the monitoring group, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said that the district of Sakhour had fallen to the Syrian army. The regime army...

Iraq's sectarian political leaders have plunged back into a dispute over the status of Shi'ite armed groups, undermining efforts to reunite the country as its troops press on with the assault of Mosul, Islamic State's biggest stronghold. Forty days into the biggest ground offensive in Iraq...