Russia's shadowy military intelligence has found itself thrust into an unwelcome spotlight over glaring errors that exposed its agents' alleged role in the poisoning of Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and an attempt to hack into the global chemical weapons watchdog. - Salisbury...

Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman on Friday threatened to escalate against Gaza-based Palestinian resistance group Hamas now that last month’s Jewish holidays have ended. "The holiday month has gone exactly as we planned -- without any confrontations or heavy losses among the...

Israel’s Jerusalem municipality has announced plans to remove the UN’s relief agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) from occupied East Jerusalem, the Israeli press has reported.  According to Israeli daily Yedioth Ahronoth, Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat has accused the agency of...

The 2018 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad, the Norwegian Nobel Committee announced in Oslo early Friday. Mukwege, a Congolese doctor, and Murad, an Ezidi campaigner from Iraq, were awarded "for their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a...