Gunmen opened fire on a vehicle carrying a general of Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, Gen. Hossein Almasi

With two tense weeks remaining until the end of Ramadan, Hamas is playing a duplicitous game by stoking Jerusalem flames and permitting rocket fire from Gaza – all the while saying it doesn't seek escalation

An unspecified projectile launched from the Gaza Strip landed in an open area in southern Israel, hours after the IDF reported two rockets launched by militants landed within the Strip after failing to make it past the border fence

The man, a resident of Israel's central city of Lod, arrived at a police station near his family home and told officers he had stabbed his mother to death

The rock iguanas of Exuma are experiencing sugar highs after being treated to alien fruit. Prolonged high blood sugar is no better for them than it is for you

Russian commander said Moscow wants control of southern and eastern Ukraine ■ Ukrainian forces pulled back from some settlements to regroup as an intensifying barrage pounded all cities in Luhansk region

The Sarmat, which Russia reportedly test-launched this week, is capable of carrying 10 or more nuclear warheads and decoys, and of striking targets thousands of miles away in the United States or Europe

Israel limited the amount of the worshipers for the Easter ceremony at the Holy Sepulchre, fearing a repeat of the Mount Meron stampede which left 45 dead, but Christians say the move infringes on freedom of worship and threatens Jerusalem's precarious status quo