JERUSALEM (AP) — The holy city of Jerusalem, a tinderbox of competing religious and political claims, has repeatedly triggered bouts of Israeli-Palestinian violence. This time around, there have been some additional sparks, including Jewish extremists who, emboldened by their...

Israeli police and Palestinians scuffled outside Jerusalem's Old City walls overnight into Sunday as tensions flared during the Muslim holiday of Ramadan, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appealed for calm. Hundreds of police officers in riot gear deployed around the...

At least three people died when an Iranian fuel tanker was attacked off Syria’s coast on Saturday, in the first assault of its kind since the Syrian civil war started a decade ago, a war monitor said. “At least three Syrians were killed, including two members of the crew,” said...

Israeli military and police forces were on the search for pieces of a Syrian anti-aircraft missile that landed in southern Israel early Thursday. The missile set off air raid sirens near the country's top-secret nuclear reactor in Dimona, the Israeli military said. In response,...