Israeli security officers shot dead a Palestinian woman who tried to stab them on Monday, officials said, the latest episode in an outbreak of violence that Israel's prime minister will discuss in talks in the White House. The woman had approached an Israeli checkpoint in the...

Washington (AFP) - Global warming could elevate disease, ravage crops and push 100 million more people into poverty without action to prevent it, the World Bank warned in a disturbing new report Sunday. The problem of climate change is already hampering efforts to reduce...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Pro-Syrian regime Sweida News published a video for unannounced meeting a meeting between a group of Druze minority clerics in southern Sweida city and General Wafiq Naser, head of the military intelligence in Druze stronghold.. A spokesman for the...

(The Telegraph)- Britain is "letting down" its allies by not taking part in attacking Isil's key strongholds in Syria, the head of the Armed Forces has said. General Sir Nicholas Houghton, the Chief of the Defence Staff, said it "makes no sense" that RAF airstrikes in Iraq stop...