Israel took no steps to comply with a Security Council call to stop all settlement activity in the West Bank and east Jerusalem, and instead authorized "a high rate" of settlement expansions in violation of international law, the United Nations said Friday.
U.N. envoy Nickolay Mladenov told the council the large number of settlement announcements and legislation action by Israel indicate "a...
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the U.S.-led international coalition against the Islamic State bombed a school being used as a shelter, killing at least 33 civilians.
The Syrian civil war monitor said the airstrike hit a school being used to shelter internally displaced persons Tuesday in the village of al-Mansoura in the western Raqqa Governorate countryside.
The...
Israel’s multi-tier air defense missile system will be fully operational early next month with the deployment of the David's Sling interceptor, a senior Israeli air force officer said on Monday.
David’s Sling, designed to shoot down rockets fired from 100 to 200km away, will be the final piece of a shield that already includes short-range Iron Dome and long-range Arrow-2 and Arrow-3...
Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman has warned Syria that Israel will destroy its air defense system if Syria fires an anti-aircraft missile at Israeli aircraft again.
Speaking on Israel public radio Sunday morning, Liberman said, "The next time the Syrians use their air defense systems against our airplanes, we will destroy all of them without thinking twice."
His threat comes after...
Thousands rallied in Lebanon’s capital on Sunday against proposed tax hikes that the government has said are needed to avoid a $4bn budget deficit this year.
Protesters chanted “we will not pay” and blamed corrupt politicians as they gathered in central Beirut’s Riad el-Solh square.
Police barricaded the entrance to the government headquarters and parliament building during...
Rebel fighters and their families have begun leaving their last bastion in the Syrian city of Homs, state media and witnesses say, under an evacuation deal with the government expected to be among the largest of its kind.
The first few buses carrying rebels and their families drove out of Al Waer district on Saturday morning, heading for rebel-held areas northeast of Aleppo city.
Talal...
The Israeli army says its aircraft have carried out several strikes inside Syria overnight, prompting Syrian forces to retaliate with ground-to-air missiles, one of which was intercepted.
It was one of the most serious incidents between the two countries, which remain technically at war, since civil war broke out in Syria in March 2011.
In response of Thursday night's attack, the Syrian...
The U.S. military said it carried out an attack on a building where al-Qaida militants were meeting in Syria, not on a mosque next door where activists say 46 civilians were killed in a bombing.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the incident occurred in the town of al-Jinah in Aleppo's western countryside. Al-Jinah is located in one of the main rebel-held parts of...
DNA tests have confirmed that the man killed last month at Kuala Lumpur's airport was Kim Jong-nam, the estranged half-brother of North Korea leader Kim Jong-un, Malayia's deputy prime minister said.
In a statement on Wednesday, Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi said police "confirmed that the identity of the body is Kim Jong-nam based on the sample taken from his child".
He did...
At least 25 people died in a suicide bomb attack at Damascus' main court complex, Syria's state media reported Wednesday.
A person wearing an explosive vest carried out the attack at the old Justice Palace building in the al-Hamidiyeh area, a local police source told Sana news agency. Also, several other civilians were reported injured, the agency reported.
The palace is near Hamidiyeh...
