To escape this living hell, Khalil looked west, first to Great Britain and then to the United States. He got a student visa and then a green card (permanent legal residency) to live in America and to ...

Car thief breaks into IDF base • Iran, Russia, China hold joint Naval drill • IDF to reexamine security failure probes ...

Fourteen years after Syria's civil war began, the nation's new Islamist government faces sectarian conflict on four fronts.

A United Nations-backed group of human rights experts accused Israel of “disproportionate violence against women and children ...

The Israeli Air Force on Thursday conducted strikes on a command center of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror organisation ...

A new United Nations report says Israel used sexual and gender-based violence as a war strategy in Gaza, and carried out "genocidal acts" against Palestinians through the systematic destruction of ...

United Nations-backed experts have accused Israel of “the systematic use of sexual, reproductive and other gender-based violence” in its war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Israel’s mission to the UN ...

Democracy and peace are not guaranteed when a dictator falls — sometimes, a country’s fate turns uglier and messier.

Israel’s military has carried out an airstrike on a residential building on the outskirts of the Syrian capital Damascus that it said was a command center of the militant group Palestinian Islamic Jih ...

A spate of attacks involving loyalists to former ruler President Bashar al-Assad has spurred concerns of a return to ...

A Syrian military operation against remnants of the former Assad regime has now ended, having sparked some of the worst ...