Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to bar national service volunteers from joining human rights group B'Tselem after the organization angered him with their testimony at the U.N. last week. Netanyahu said in a Facebook post on Saturday he planned to change the national...

(The Guardian)- The novel way of diplomacy proposed by foreign secretary Boris Johnson has so far materialised in a lone gentleman with a poster outside our embassy – not something I would describe as a big diplomatic victory. But the very fact of having to resort to (non-existent) campaigners...

(BBC)- US Secretary of State John Kerry is to meet French and German foreign ministers in London later in a renewed attempt to broker peace in Syria. On Saturday he met Russia's Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, along with representatives from other countries with stakes in the five-year...

Angela Merkel wants to get other European Union member countries to agree to step up sanctions against Russia because of its role in the war in Syria, a German newspaper cited sources close to the German chancellor as saying. The issue of sanctions is due to be discussed at an EU summit on...