(The Daily Star)- A suspected extremist gunman captured during a shock attack on Kirkuk Friday said the raid was planned to divert attention from a major offensive on ISIS' Mosul stronghold. An AFP reporter attended the interrogation shortly after his arrest by Kurdish forces of a suspected...

The UN refugee agency warned Greek authorities Friday over what it called the illegal return of 10 Syrian refugees to Turkey. "The UNHCR is seriously concerned by the illegal return of Syrian nationals from Greece to Turkey," UNHCR spokesman Adrian Edwards told a news conference at the UN in...

Syria's army and Russia's air force halted their bombardment of rebel-held eastern Aleppo on Friday, a monitoring group said, on the second of four consecutive daytime unilateral ceasefires in the city that have been rejected by insurgents. Heavy clashes took place in Aleppo during the...

Britain sought to shame Russia on Friday for its deadly air strikes on the Syrian city of Aleppo, during a special session of the United Nations Human Rights Council called by London to set up a special inquiry into violations. "Russia, you are making the situation worse, not solving it,"...