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...

Protesting farmers in India have returned to border areas, a day after the capital witnessed violent clashes, to continue their demonstrations "peacefully." Thousands are encamped on the outskirts of Delhi since November against three new agricultural laws meant to liberalize the...