Benny Gantz, a former Israeli army chief and founder of the Israel Resilience Party, is facing a civil suit at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in relation to the death of six Gazan civilians in 2014, Israeli daily Haaretz reported Friday. According to the newspaper, the plaintiff is...

At least 197 civilians were killed in war-ravaged Syria in January, according to a monthly report released Friday by a London-based rights watchdog. In its report, the Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) said that 57 children and 27 women had been among those killed during the first...

Thousands of Iranians packed the mausoleum of the Islamic republic's founder Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in Tehran on Friday to launch celebrations for the 40th anniversary of its revolution. Ceremonies for the 1979 revolution started at 9:33 am (0603 GMT), the exact time that Khomeini...

Lebanon announced a government line-up Thursday, ending an eight-month wait that had heightened fears of a major economic collapse. The new cabinet, unveiled during a press conference at the presidential palace, includes 30 ministers from Lebanon's rival political clans. The new line-up...

Three Palestinians were injured on Thursday, including one who is now in critical condition, by the Israeli army in the southern West Bank, according to medical sources and eyewitnesses. In a statement, the Palestinian Health Ministry said the injuries had been caused by live ammunition...

The cold has killed close to 30 children in two months among the civilians who have been fleeing the last jihadist pocket in eastern Syria, the United Nations said Thursday. The World Health Organization said it was extremely concerned by the conditions for those who make it to Al-Hol,...

In the former jihadist bastion of Hajin in eastern Syria, 50-year-old Khaled Abed shouts at the top of his lungs amid the rubble, asking why he can't go home. The US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) expelled the Islamic State group from the town last month, but it has since forbidden...

Retired Israeli general Benny Gantz's new party has surged in opinion polls since his maiden speech, positing him as the most significant political threat to incumbent premier Benjamin Netanyahu. But despite the leap in the number of seats his Israel Resilience party is expected to win in...

Mohamed ElBaradei, who briefly served as vice-president following Egypt’s 2013 military coup, has decried the country’s human rights situation under President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi's rule.  In a Thursday tweet, ElBaradei, who served as director-general of the International Atomic Energy...

A bipartisan group of lawmakers from both chambers of Congress reintroduced legislation Wednesday that could halt U.S. support for the Saudi-led war in Yemen. The war powers resolution already passed the Senate in December but failed to gain traction in the then-Republican-controlled House,...

An Israeli minister on Wednesday threatened to ban human rights group Amnesty International from the country for its criticism of some tourism companies. Gilad Erdan, the minister of public security, accused the rights group of promoting a boycott against Israelis. “I have instructed...

A UN official on Wednesday condemned Israel's expansion of settlements and deadly violation in the occupied West Bank. “The international community must take decisive action in response to Israel’s recent intensification of settlement activities in the occupied West Bank, including East...

A minister threatened to ban Amnesty International from Israel after the rights group on Wednesday accused Airbnb, Booking.com, Expedia and TripAdvisor of profiting from "war crimes" by offering accommodation in settlements. "Amnesty International, that hypocritical organisation that speaks...

A Palestinian woman tried to stab Israeli guards at a checkpoint on the outskirts of Jerusalem on Wednesday, Israeli police said, with Palestinian officials reporting she was shot dead. "At the security checkpoint at Zaim a female suspect attempted to stab security guards that were on...

More than ninety-nine and a half percent of territory captured by the Daesh terrorist group in Syria has been returned to the Syrian people, Acting Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan said Tuesday. "Within a couple weeks it will be a hundred percent," Shanahan told reporters at the...

France has denied allegations that it asked Israel to refrain from attacking Lebanon before a new cabinet is unveiled in Beirut, according to a Tuesday statement released by France’s embassy in Lebanon. Earlier, media outlets had quoted French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian as saying...

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad Tuesday hailed an economic deal with key ally Iran as a bulwark against what he described as an "economic war" waged by the West. Assad spoke the day after the allies signed a string of agreements including a long-term "economic cooperation" deal ahead of...

A Palestinian has succumbed to injuries he sustained last Friday while taking part in ongoing anti-occupation rallies east of Gaza’s Al-Bureij refugee camp, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry. “Samir Gazi al-Nabahin, 47, has died of injuries suffered last Friday at the hands of Israeli...

Pierre Krahenbuhl, commissioner-general of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), has unveiled a proposed $1.2-billion agency budget for 2019. According to a UNRWA statement issued Monday, the funding is needed to continue providing assistance to some 5.4 million...

Eight civilians were killed and 25 others injured Tuesday in the Syrian regime’s shelling of northwestern Idlib province. Artillery shells targeted Maarat Al-Numan and the towns of Al-Tah and Hosh Al-Qasabiya, which fall within the de-escalation zone in Idlib province, Mustafa Haj Yusuf,...