A Palestinian was shot dead by Israeli forces during protests along the border with Gaza on Friday, the Palestinian enclave's health ministry said, following a three-month spike in violence. Mohammed Abu Zaida, 18, died after being shot in the neck, ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra said. Two...

Russia said Friday it had launched "humanitarian operations" in Syria where it is carrying out a bombing campaign against the Islamic State group, claiming peaceful life was slowly returning to the war-torn country. "The inhabitants are gradually coming back to Syrian cities and...

 Russia and Syria in August signed an agreement giving Moscow the go-ahead for an open-ended military presence in the war-torn country, Moscow has revealed. The agreement was signed in Damascus on Aug. 26, 2015, more than a month before Russia launched a bombing campaign against the ISIS...

A drawing in French satirical weekly magazine Charlie Hebdo suggesting Alan Kurdi, the three-year-old Syrian boy found dead on a Turkish beach last year, would have grown up to be a sex attacker caused outrage online on Thursday. The cartoon depicts two male creatures running...