Palestinian militants launched their heaviest barrages against Israel since the 2014 Gaza war today and Israeli aircraft struck back, in a surge of fighting after weeks of border violence.

Roman Abramovich has become an Israeli citizen a month after the UK delayed renewing his visa amid diplomatic tension between London and Moscow.

Facebook makes little distinction between fact and fiction, and that is undermining trust in news.

In Iran, it has been obligatory for women to wear a head scarf, or hijab, since 1983, in the wake of the 1979 revolution. Since then, women have been forced to wear the long, loose-fitting chador, and the hijab. To make sure the law is respected, morality police patrol the streets. But two major online movements are showing people — …

Dozens of Palestinians have been injured during protests along the border with Israel, Gaza’s Health Ministry has said.

Saudi Arabia Cracks Down on Women’s Rights Activists

Invasive coral poses threat to commercial fish supplies

Iran’s supreme leader has threatened to pull his country out of the nuclear deal and resume enriching uranium if European countries do not promise to buy Iranian oil and to oppose all new US sanctions against Tehran.

It is often said, perhaps with some hyperbole, that Iran’s nuclear deal with world powers was the

Enter this war-torn city and amid the rubble and devastation is an unexpected sight: women.