An Israeli couple was shot to death Thursday in the West Bank by Palestinians while driving in their car with their four young children, according to the Israeli military and emergency services. The children — ages 9, 7, 4 and 4 months — were in the back seat and were unharmed, the Magen David Adom ambulance service said. The victims ...

President Obama forcefully denounced Russia on Friday for its new bombing campaign in Syria and said the United States would not cooperate, declaring that Moscow’s actions will lead it into a “quagmire” and make the crisis in the Middle East worse not better. Even as the Kremlin widened its bombings in Syria, striking Islamic State territory for the first time, ...

A 26-year-old man opened fire on a community college campus here in a rampage that left 10 people dead and seven wounded and turned this rural stretch of southern Oregon into the latest American locale ravaged by a mass shooting. Students described scenes of carnage concentrated in a public speaking class that was underway in a college humanities building, and ...

French authorities have launched a criminal probe against the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad for alleged war crimes committed between 2011 and 2013, sources told AFP. Paris prosecutors opened a preliminary war crimes inquiry on September 15, a source close to the case and a diplomatic source said. The investigation is drawing in particular on evidence provided by a ...

A day after an Obama-Putin summit at which the White House said it had reached “clarity” on Russian intentions in Syria, Barack Obama’s defense chief instructed his staff to establish a communication channel with the Kremlin to ensure the safety of US and Russian military operations. Ashton Carter, the US defense secretary, seeks to “avoid conflict in the air” between ...

Australia is to launch another bid for a seat on the United Nations Security Council, just a year after its last term on the council expired. The spot Australia is seeking will be open in 2029. Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop is expected to announce the bid in her address to the General Assembly in New York on Tuesday evening. In opposition ...

Arab and Yemeni human rights defenders and activists have condemned in the strongest possible terms the brutal atrocities, crimes and violations committed by the Houthi militia and group of deposed president Ali Abdullah Saleh against the women in Yemen. Speakers condemned these human rights abuses terming them as “bereft of human sense” and said the perpetrators had no regard for ...

There have been clashes over Israeli riot police and young Palestinian protesters at a holy site in Jerusalem early Sunday. A small group of masked young Palestinians threw stones and firecrackers at Israeli police at a main entrance, according to officials. Police responded with stun grenades and fired tear gas and then the crowd was quickly dispersed. Fortunately, no one ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani talked up ties between their two nations on Monday at the 70th United Nations General Assembly. Putin called for the formation of a “broader, general” coalition to fight Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. “I would like to note that our relations are developing quite actively,” Putin told Rouhani at a ...

There are more than 100,000 people who are homeless in Australia. Chief executive of Mission Australia, Catherine Yeomans said that housing affordability crisis put extreme pressure on people who try to keep a place to live. Ms Yeomans said “we have a housing affordability crisis, so there are many Australians who are in housing stress, they’re spending over 30 per cent ...