(The Daily Star)- Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir said Monday that Riyadh had urged the Iraqi government not to let Shiite militias enter Mosul, fearing "mass atrocities." As Iraqi forces launched an offensive aimed at retaking the country's second city from ISIS, Jubeir warned against...

Russian and Syrian armed forces will pause attacks on the Syrian city of Aleppo for eight hours on Thursday to allow civilians and rebels to leave the city, the Russian Defence Ministry said on Monday. But Moscow ruled out a lasting ceasefire, a step that Western governments have been...

Up to 100,000 Iraqis may flee to Syria and Turkey to escape the Iraqi government's assault aimed at ousting Islamic State from the northern city of Mosul, the United Nations refugee agency UNHCR said on Monday. The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees issued an appeal for an additional $61...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Fourteen members of the same family were killed in a regime air strike on eastern Aleppo on Monday, emergency service workers said, as the Assad army pursued its Russian-backed campaign to capture opposition-held areas of the city. A list of the dead published by the Civil...