Israeli forces are using excessive, reckless violence in the occupied West Bank, killing dozens of Palestinians over the past three years in what might constitute a war crime, Amnesty International said on Thursday. In a report entitled "Trigger Happy", the human rights group...

The new leader of Sayfullakh Shishani’s jamaat, a Chechen native named as Mohammed Khorasani, has made a video address in which he calls on Chechens in Europe and Chechnya to come to Syria and fight. Sayfullakh’s jamaat fights under the auspices of Jabhat al-Nusra but is a...

Syria  has agreed a new timetable to remove its chemical weapons by late April after failing to meet a deadline to ship out the arsenal earlier this month, diplomats said on Wednesday. Under a U.S.-Russian deal reached after a chemical weapons attack killed hundreds of people...

  Germany  faces an increased threat of attack due to around a dozen German militants who have returned from the conflict in  Syria  with specialist knowledge of weapons and bomb-making, German intelligence officers said. Hans-Georg Maassen, head of...