RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — The cinematic escape of six prisoners who tunneled out of an Israeli penitentiary earlier this month shone a light on Israel's mass incarceration of Palestinians, one of the many bitter fruits of the conflict. Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have passed...

Save the Children slams foreign governments for failing to repatriate their citizens from refugee camps in northeast Syria, where children face a host of threats. Tens of thousands of children are “wasting away” amid widespread violence and threats in two refugee camps in northeast...

(Reuters) - All six people on board an ageing Antonov An-26 transport plane that crashed in the Russian far east the previous day have been killed, Russia's emergency services ministry said on Thursday. The plane, which the TASS news agency said belonged to a company that performed technical...

 Libya's eastern strongman Khalifa Haftar said Wednesday he was suspending his military activities, a step which could lead to his candidacy in elections later this year. In a statement, Haftar said he had named an interim replacement as head of the self-proclaimed Libyan National Army...