Ebrahim Raisi, the leading candidate for Iran's hardliners in next month's presidential election, has left many wondering whether the country's fragile opening to the West could be under threat. The...
Russia criticised the world's chemical weapons watchdog for not sending experts to the site of an alleged chemical attack in Syria, saying it was "unacceptable to analyse events from a distance". But...
A Palestinian man stabbed a British woman to death on Friday near Jerusalem's Old City, where thousands of Jewish and Christian pilgrims were gathered for religious holidays. The 23-year-old student...
Iranian hardline cleric Ebrahim Raisi registered on Friday to run for next month's presidential election, state television showed. The 56-year-old has emphasised his concern for the poor and the high...
Iranian hardline cleric Ebrahim Raisi registered on Friday to run for next month's presidential election, state television showed. The 56-year-old has emphasised his concern for the poor and the high...
Thousands of Christians from around the world marked Good Friday in Jerusalem's Old City, retracing the steps Jesus Christ is believed to have taken carrying his cross to his crucifixion. Through the...
Thousands of Christians from around the world marked Good Friday in Jerusalem's Old City, retracing the steps Jesus Christ is believed to have taken carrying his cross to his crucifixion. Through the...
US Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis is heading to the Middle East and Africa next week for a series of meetings with regional allies, the Pentagon said Friday. The trip will be Mattis's fourth...
A British woman has been stabbed to death on a tram in Jerusalem. She has been named as student Hannah Bladon by Israel’s ambassador to the UK, Mark Regev. Ms Bladon was stabbed several times in...
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, who has denied ordering last week's suspected chemical attack on a rebel-held town, believes his victory is inevitable in the six-year-old war ravaging his country....
Whipping their backs until they pour blood then nailing themselves to crosses, these are the Filipino Catholics who perform gruesome religious rituals to seek forgiveness for their sins before...
Tens of thousands of Jews congregated at the Western Wall in Jerusalem on Thursday for a mass priestly blessing on Passover, a tradition of recent decades echoing a pilgrimage from antiquity. With...
Down a Bethlehem alleyway, sunlight illuminates a golden icon of the Virgin Mary and Jesus, signalling the revival of an ancient art being practised in the workshop inside. The building near the...
White House spokesman Sean Spicer on Wednesday offered a fresh apology for minimizing the atrocities of Adolf Hitler in his comments on Syria, amid a wave of indignation at home and abroad. "I made a...
Power comes in many forms, but Kamal al-Jebrini's family looked to where others may fear to tread for a new source of it: cow dung. The family has begun recycling waste from its cows to produce...
Hundreds of Syrian students gathered on Tuesday outside the United Nations headquarters in Damascus to protest last week's US strike on a government air base. Demonstrators waved the two-star flag of...
White specks appear on the horizon and a voice crackles over the radio with a warning: "The speed boat is acting independently." Two boats on suicide bombing missions had been spotted either side of...
A rocket fired from Egypt's Sinai crashed into Israel on Monday, in an attack claimed by the Islamic State jihadist group, as authorities closed a border crossing over security threats, officials...
The twin bombings of churches in Egypt suggest that Islamic State group jihadists are lashing out as they find themselves coming under increasing pressure in Iraq and Syria, analysts say. The group's...
An Israeli court Sunday sentenced an Arab Israeli former MP to two years in jail after he pleaded guilty to smuggling mobile phones to Palestinian prisoners, a court transcript showed. Basel Ghattas,...
