A Palestinian driver attempted to ram his car into Israeli soldiers at a checkpoint in the occupied West Bank on Friday and was shot dead, the Israeli military said. The attack occurred on the outskirts of Hebron, a large Palestinian city in the south of the West Bank. A campaign of...

By now, the news alerts are all too familiar: "Stabbing near Old City: Israeli wounded, attacker shot dead", read a recent bulletin. Another came by text message on Wednesday: "Stabbing attack: 2 wounded, one light, terrorist shot dead." Over the past 2-1/2 months, since a wave of violence by...

Iraqi security forces have made advances on two fronts in the city of Ramadi, clearing Islamic State militants from a key military command base and a sprawling neighborhood on its western edge, army officials said. Capture of the sprawling western Ramadi district of al-Taamim and the Anbar...

Russia on Wednesday invited British experts to help analyse the black box of a warplane downed by Turkey, as President Vladimir Putin and British Prime Minister David Cameron agreed to cooperate over Syria. Britain offered its assistance to Russia two weeks after...