The plan to allow Jewish prayer at Islam’s third holiest site is threatening to plunge the entire region into great conflict

Elementary school teacher attended private robotics classes to learn how to develop and assemble customised humanoid robots

Pictures show “apocalyptic scenes” inside camp left devastated by eight-month siege as thousands queue for aid

Chancellor Angela Merkel said Monday that she is visiting Israel with most of her new cabinet in order to show Germany's friendship with the Jewish state and that her country is working to secure the future of Israel.

The Alawites of northern Lebanon adore President Assad but they are a minority surrounded by Sunnis who send their sons to fight with the rebels. Now Syria’s conflict is tearing their city apart. Fernande van Tets reports from Tripoli

The Taliban commander is said to have been killed in an ambush by gunmen on Monday - but no one has claimed responsibility

The wife of an Anglo-Iranian citizen who disappeared in Dubai and is feared to have been taken to Iran and murdered has blamed British authorities of “putting his life in danger”.

With just two months to go before the deadline expires for reaching a framework that would enable the continuation of US-brokered Israeli-Palestinian peace diplomacy, the two sides seem as far apart as ever on the core issues of their dispute.

World View: Assad cannot deliver a knock-out blow, the rebels can't unite, Moscow will not back down and the West lacks a strategy

UN Security Council calls on Assad and opposition to allow help for millions 'in desperate need'

At least a million Syrian refugees are now living in Lebanon, almost half of them children. They are being put up in tents, shacks and nine to a room – but 'no one cares', says British photographer Ed Thompson, who spent six days moving among the camps

Construction company proposes the demolition of a small library near the Grand Mosque to make way for the imam’s residence and an adjacent presidential palace

Divestment resulting from deadlock with the Palestinians is a hot political issue

500 people from Saudi Arabia and other Gulf countries were said to have signed up for a spot on the Mars One mission

Tracing the current conflict in Syria back to the year 632, when the Prophet Mohamed died