In Russian, the region is not called the Middle East, but the Near East, and Russia does not appreciate Washington’s footprint on what it considers its own battlefields.

Democracy is waning globally, and China might be to blame, a Belgian researcher visiting Israel says; an Israeli doula misses four births to surf in Sri Lanka.

The arrest took place in the suburb of Hjulsta, north-west of the capital.

A Palestinian boy was shot in the stomach and spine on his way home from school, his family says. After eight years in and out of hospitals, his leg has been amputated.

Putin might want to prove that an attack on Russia’s ally has implications for America’s ally. But Israel needs coordination with Russia over Syria’s skies

For the first time the group was allowed to hold the ceremony just a few hundred meters from the Mount − which is administered by a Muslim religious trust

For elite military men there’s apparently no greater blow than the cancellation of a mission they’re primed to carry out. This adolescent frustration, whether of a current or former officer, can determine the fate of millions

300 babies are abandoned in Israel each year. Sivan Almoz, director of an organization that sends volunteers to be with those often ill infants, talks about her work and her own rough start.