Israel

The United States does not want Russia to sell weapons to Syria and has opposed transfers of missile systems to the country in the past because(...)

In a major victory for the Israel boycott movement, British theoretical physicist Prof Stephe(...)

Several thousand visitors are expected in Dún Laoghaire this week for an international festival of flags. The Bratacha Festival, opening (...)

Yesterday’s agreement between the US and Russia to press for new Syrian peace talks, although in the diplomatic pipeline for a while, is also a(...)

Two newly freed Cleveland women had family homecomings today after a decade of captivity in a house where police said chains and ropes had been(...)

Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu insisted on his country’s right to defend itself during a visit to China yesterday, after Beijing exp(...)

Syrian rebels claimed yesterday to be holding four Filipino UN peacekeepers on the ceasefire line between Syria and the Israeli-occupied Golan (...)

Turkish prime minister Tayyip Erdogan today condemned Israeli air strikes on targets near Damascus, saying they were an opportunity for Syrian(...)

US secretary of state John Kerry has asked Russian president Vladimir Putin for a tougher stance on Syria at a time when Israeli air strikes ag(...)

German police yesterday arrested a suspected former guard at the Auschwitz death camp named by the Simon Wiesenthal Centre as Hans Lipschis. Pr(...)