The United Nations on Friday called for "unhindered humanitarian access" to people fleeing the last pocket of Islamic State jihadists in eastern Syria. In the past week alone, the UN says more than 10,000 people have fled from the conflict zone to Al-Hol, where the main camp for people...

Benny Gantz, a former Israeli army chief and founder of the Israel Resilience Party, is facing a civil suit at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in relation to the death of six Gazan civilians in 2014, Israeli daily Haaretz reported Friday. According to the newspaper, the plaintiff is...

The number of rape and sexual offence complaints made to French police "rose sharply" in 2018, according to figures published Thursday by the interior ministry. Rape complaints increased almost 17 percent while sexual assault complaints jumped by around 20 percent, the statistics...

At least 29 Syrian children have died in the cold weather in the past eight weeks as they tried to flee the violence in eastern Syria, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Thursday. The children and newborns mostly died of hypothermia while traveling to the Al-Hol refugee camp in...