Nine rounds of UN peace talks between the warring sides of the Syrian Civil War have made little progress toward ending the civil war in which hundreds of thousands have been killed and 11 million.

The 26-year-old, who made aliyah in 2016, has stopped at nothing to achieve his goal of representing Israel at the Winter Olympics.

The war hero has become a draw for tourists– and a tool of moral education in rural Japan.

Holocaust denial has proliferated for decades in the Arab and Muslim worlds, sometimes encouraged by official government bodies, including in the past by Saudi Arabia.

Poles have fought for years against suggestions Poland was at least partly responsible for camps where millions of people, mostly Jews, were killed by Nazi Germany.

The Taliban have dismissed suggestions that they have been weakened by a new strategy to push back insurgents from major cities.

The National Security Index shows how Israelis feel about major challenges to the country each year.

US President Donald Trump vowed to stop waiving US sanctions unless the Europeans agreed to strengthen the deal's terms.