Israel’s Supreme Court has ordered the removal of about 1,200 Palestinians from their villages in the occupied West Bank. The United Nations says that could amount to a war crime.

Thousands of children have been killed in the enclave since the Israeli assault began, officials in Gaza say. The Israeli military says it takes “all feasible precautions” to avoid civilian deaths.

A New York Times investigation found that the bullet that killed a Palestinian-American journalist was fired from the approximate position of an Israeli military vehicle.

Israel’s Supreme Court has ordered the removal of about 1,200 Palestinians from their villages in the occupied West Bank. The United Nations says that could amount to a war crime.

Desperate people are on the run from Syrian forces bearing down on the last rebel stronghold. Ahead of them is Turkey’s heavily guarded border.

Even as the fighting in Syria has largely stalled, more than a decade of conflict has left behind an array of unexploded munitions like cluster bombs. An earthquake in February heightened the risks.

Rights groups are using machine learning to sort through a mammoth trove of video, photo and other evidence to build Syrian war-crimes cases.

For former residents of Iqrit, where Israeli forces leveled everything but the church in 1951, religious rituals bind them to a place from which they were expelled.

No cease-fire appeared imminent, despite early mediation efforts by international actors, including the United Nations. The death toll from the fighting grew to at least 24, Palestinian health...

Hundreds of fighters from Syrian militias allied with Turkey have joined the fighting between Azerbaijan and Armenia over the disputed enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, and hundreds more are preparing to...

Israeli police, lawmakers and settlers are increasingly targeting the flag, which Palestinians say is a broader attack on their identity.

Ben Gvir occupies a position of immense power in the same system he spent his life defying. Now that he's in charge of Israeli security forces, many fear he could set the region ablaze.

With a harsh crackdown, Bashar al-Assad’s regime helped turn a protest movement that erupted eight years ago into a civil war, unleashing government military power on the political opposition. In an...

African migrants and refugees, who arrive to Libya after fleeing conflict and poverty at home, are risking the dangerous Mediterranean crossing to reach Europe only to be intercepted and returned to...

Khader Adnan had led a hunger-strike movement among Palestinians to protest detentions. Palestinian leaders and armed groups blamed Israel for his death, and claimed responsibility for rocket strikes...

Millions fled the war in Syria for the safety of neighboring Turkey. “We want them to be buried among their family,” said a man waiting for the body of a young relative coming from Turkey.

A U.N. office said Israel’s detention and treatment of detainees might amount to torture. It estimated thousands had been detained and held in “horrific” conditions. Some were freed wearing only...

Strongly denied by Israel and its supporters, the claim is the first time that a U.N.-appointed rapporteur has accused Israel of apartheid in such an unequivocal way.

More than 38,000 Palestinians have fled their homes since fighting erupted between Israel and Hamas, crowding shelters and straining health services as the Covid-19 pandemic remains a serious concern.

A Palestinian accused of plotting to kill Israelis went on a hunger strike to protest his imprisonment without trial. Fearing unrest, Israel agreed to release him.

A surge in attacks by Jewish settlers in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, amid inflammatory statements by Israeli leaders, has Palestinians on edge.

Artisans at the contested Jerusalem holy site, known to Jews as the Temple Mount, complain of Israeli interference with their work and face a constant struggle to keep up with repairs after violence...

The strikes also hit two hospitals, schools and infrastructure, the U.N. said.

A coveted Middle Eastern rice dish has become a social media star at Al Aqsa Mosque, even as tensions escalate at a site also revered by Jews.

In one of the deadliest periods in years in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, young Palestinians drawn into the struggle against Israel are writing farewell messages to their loved ones.

A Syrian detention center run by U.S.-backed Kurds aims to help young former Islamic State fighters reintegrate into society, a rare rehabilitation effort among the tens of thousands of former...

For decades, Palestinians imprisoned by Israel have used these protests as a way to demand better living conditions and an end to indefinite detentions.

Washington has temporarily eased sanctions on the authoritarian government of President Bashar al-Assad to allow humanitarian aid to flow freely after a disastrous earthquake struck Syria.

Exclusive: UN special rapporteur on the right to food Michael Fakhri says denial of food is war crime and constitutes ‘a situation of genocide’

Some residents fear a start of another permanent displacement. Gaza authorities said at least 70 people were killed when Israeli airstrikes hit some vehicles heading south.

Gaza residents say Israeli airstrikes come mostly without warning and hit indiscriminately, leading to the feeling that death is imminent and inevitable.

The deaths of four Syrians in Lebanese army custody and lethal fires in two Syrian refugee camps in the past week have refocused attention on the worsening plight of more than a million displaced...

Ramadan challenges Muslims who have become especially addicted to caffeine this past year.