Turkish authorities detained the spokesman of the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) for insulting police Friday, a party lawmaker said, the latest detention of a high-profile politician from the Kurdish-rooted opposition. Osman Baydemir, 46, served as mayor of Diyarbakir, Turkey's...

A teenage Palestinian girl who was shot by Israeli troops after she stabbed a soldier in the occupied West Bank died of her wounds in hospital Friday, Israel's military and a medical center spokeswoman said. The girl, who Palestinian authorities said was aged 16 and from the West Bank...

The United Nations Security Council will vote Friday on a U.S. and Chinese proposal to blacklist more North Korean individuals and entities after the country's repeated ballistic missile launches, diplomats said Thursday. The draft resolution, seen by Reuters, would sanction four entities,...

(SNHR)- The Syrian Network for Human Rights has published its periodic death toll report for the month of May 2017 in which it documented the killing of 964 civilians at the hands of the parties to the conflict in Syria. The report sheds light on the de-escalation zones agreement...