At least three people were killed on Sunday in an ambush on Shi'ite mourners in a town south of Beirut, a day after a revenge killing of a member of Lebanon's Hezbollah group, security sources and a senior source in the group said. The three were shot in the town of Khaldeh, where...

Israeli police clashed with Palestinians outside Jerusalem's Old City on Thursday and manned barricades to prevent hundreds of Jewish extremists from marching to the area. Tensions have grown in the city, which is home to holy sites sacred to Jews, Christians and Muslims and has long...

Israeli troops detained five Palestinian children for several hours after they were confronted by Jewish settlers while gathering wild artichokes near a settlement outpost in the occupied West Bank, an Israeli human rights group said Thursday. B'Tselem released video of the arrest, in...

After a decade of unfathomable violence and human tragedy that has made Syria the defining war of the early 21st century, the fighting has tapered off but the suffering hasn’t. In 2011, Bashar Assad and his government briefly looked like another domino about to fall in the whirlwind...