Two Palestinian youths stabbed an Israeli policeman in Jerusalem’s Old City on Thursday and were shot by officers, killing one of them, police said. Video footage aired on Israeli television and circulating on social media showed two young men approaching a police officer at one of the...

A Russian Airbus with more than 230 people on board was forced to make an emergency landing in a corn field outside Moscow on Thursday after hitting a flock of seagulls, officials said. There were no immediate reports of serious injuries. The Ural Airlines A321 was carrying 226...

Dr Yasser al Samm, a surgeon, was on duty in the emergency ward of the Maaret al Numan hospital in Idlib on July 10 when he heard four explosions and felt the walls shake. "I was confused but there was no time for confusion. We started to evacuate the patients to the basement," he said....

A Syrian activist group and state-controlled media say that regime forces have captured two northwestern villages, inching closer to a major rebel-held town. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an opposition-linked activist group, says Syrian troops captured the...