BEIRUT / AP Turkey described the US missile attack on an air base as a “cosmetic intervention” unless it removes President Bashar Assad from power, while the Syrian leader’s strong ally Iran called on Saturday for the formation of an international fact-finding committee to investigate the chemical weapons attack in a northern Syrian town that killed scores of people ...

  STOCKHOLM / AP The suspect in Stockholm’s deadly truck attack is a 39-year-old native of Uzbekistan who had been on authorities’ radar previously, Swedish officials said on Saturday. The prime minister urged citizens to “get through this” and strolled through the streets of the capital to chat with residents. Swedes flew flags at half-staff on Saturday to commemorate the ...

  Tuban, Indonesia / AP Indonesian police say they killed six suspected militants in a gun battle on Saturday that followed a failed attack in East Java. National police spokesman Martinus Sitompul said the men were cornered in a village of Tuban district after attempting a drive-by shooting of a police officer who was patrolling a busy road in the ...