The top United Nations human rights official called on Tuesday for an end to Israel's occupation of Palestinian territory, saying it would benefit both sides after 50 years of enmity. Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein, in a speech opening a three-week session of the U.N. Human Rights Council, said that...

Syria's state news agency and an opposition monitoring group say airstrikes on the northern city of Raqqa, the de facto capital of ISIS, have killed at least 12 people. State news agency SANA reported on Tuesday that the airstrikes by the U.S.-led coalition killed 12, including women and...

About 100,000 children are trapped in extremely dangerous conditions in the remaining Islamic State-held enclave in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, the United Nations said on Monday. Children were being used as human shields by the insurgents or were caught in the crossfire of the battle,...

 Seven African migrants died, apparently from suffocation, after being locked for two days in a refrigerated truck that was abandoned by people smugglers on the Libyan coast, officials said. Twenty-eight others, including five women, were rescued Sunday when the truck was discovered at...