Nearly two weeks after the Russian intervention began in Syria, one could say it has not got off to a good start. Last week, the Syrian regime launched its first ground offensive against the rebels under Russian air support. The assault, in Hama’s northern countryside, failed spectacularly...

A Palestinian stabbed and wounded a passerby north of Tel Aviv Tuesday before being detained by civilians in the area, police said, the latest in a wave of attacks that have targeted Israelis. The victim was "moderately" wounded in the stabbing near a bus station in Raanana, police said....

Two Palestinian youths of 13 and 15 stabbed and critically injured a 13-year-old Israeli boy riding his bike in northern Jerusalem on Monday, police said, continuing a wave of attacks in the city in which three alleged Palestinian assailants were shot dead. Four Israelis and 26...

Amnesty International on Tuesday accused a Syrian Kurdish militia supported by the United States of committing war crimes by driving out thousands of non-Kurdish civilians and demolishing their homes. The London-based rights watchdog documented cases in more than a dozen...