The United Nations human rights chief is urging Israel to repeal its new "deeply discriminatory" death penalty law, warning that using it to execute Palestinian residents of the West Bank would amount to a war crime.

An American journalist has been kidnapped in Baghdad, U.S. and Iraqi authorities said Tuesday. The journalist, identified as Shelly Kittleson by outlets for which she has written, has reported extensively from the Middle East as a freelance contributor to Al-Monitor,

The Soviet-designed military transport turboprop aircraft crashed into a cliff, sources at the scene told state news agencies.

Beirut is bursting under a massive wave of displaced people as Israel’s attacks and evacuation orders drive families out of southern and eastern Lebanon and the southern suburbs.

Keir Starmer said the UK will coordinate a diplomatic push to reopen the Strait of Hormuz as the US-Israeli war with Iran threatens to derail economies around the world and fracture the transatlantic alliance.

Vladimir Putin made a big deal of Russia’s success in seizing control of Kupyansk in eastern Ukraine late last year, even as Volodymyr Zelenskiy immediately challenged the claim by making a video address from the town.

London police have arrested three more suspects in the arson attack that burned four ambulances owned by a Jewish charity. Police say they detained two British men, ages 20 and 19, and a

Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees struggling to survive in Bangladesh's overcrowded camps will see their food assistance slashed starting on Wednesday, raising alarm throughout the increasingly desperate community.