The Israeli army suffered its first fatality this year on Tuesday when a Palestinian stonethrower killed a soldier in the occupied West Bank, a day before US-Israeli talks on annexation. The army said the 21-year-old soldier was hit in the head "during operational activity" in the village...

In the harshly-lit corridors of a Beirut hospital, a team of nurses has been snapping pictures with their mobile phones of life behind the scenes of the battle against the coronavirus. The images taken at the Hotel-Dieu de France Hospital and selected by AFP for a photo project offer a...

Hundreds of people protested outside the Iranian consulate in western Afghanistan Monday over the deaths of several migrants who were allegedly forced into a river by Iranian border guards and drowned. Afghan officials claim the migrants died while they were illegally crossing into...

The swearing-in of Israel's new unity government has been postponed by one day due to the upcoming visit of U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, officials said Monday. A parliament spokesman said the joint administration of incumbent premier Benjamin Netanyahu and former rival Benny Gantz...