The International Criminal Court has given Israel and the Palestinians one month to ask the tribunal to postpone its war crimes investigation, provided they can prove they are carrying out their own probes. The ICC's chief prosecutor announced on March 3 that she had opened a full...

    Russia has denied Bashar al-Assad's request to appoint a new chief of the army staff under the pretext that the de-facto role of the Russian forces in Syria is substituting that position, sources told Zaman al-Wasl.   Assad's demand was delivered to the Russian...

Israeli troops shot and killed a Palestinian protester during clashes on Friday in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Health Ministry said. The ministry said the man died after being shot in the head in the village of Beit Dagan, near the northern city of Nablus. Residents there...

Turkish authorities have asked three Istanbul-based Egyptian opposition TV channels to soften their critical political coverage of Egypt’s government, as Turkey seeks to repair frayed ties with Cairo, officials at one of the channels said Friday. Ayman Nour, an exiled Egyptian...