An Israeli human rights group says many more Palestinian civilians were killed in the Israeli military’s campaign this year in Gaza than the army admits.

A Palestinian minister and an Israeli Arab member of parliament have stoked a row over allegations that Israel has taken organs from dead Palestinians. Issa

A former Israeli military commander has told the BBC that Palestinian youngsters are routinely ill-treated by Israeli soldiers while in custody, reports the BBC’ s

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected a reported US request that a building project in Jerusalem be halted. The project involves building 20 apartments

A group of soldiers who took part in Israel’s assault in Gaza say widespread abuses were committed against civilians under “permissive” rules of engagement. The

French youths set 317 cars on fire and wounded 13 police officers overnight during a series of riots on the eve of the Bastille Day

Israel committed war crimes and carried out reckless attacks and acts of wanton destruction in its Gaza offensive, an independent human rights report says. Hundreds

The UN special rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories has said Israel’s policies there amount to a crime against humanity. Richard Falk’s statement

People protesting against the death of a teenager shot by Greek police have attacked banks and shops in Athens and the northern city of Thessaloniki.

People are not starving in Gaza but there is what the aid agencies call “food insecurity”. To see what this means we visited the family

Pork from the Irish Republic and Northern Ireland should not be eaten due to contamination fears, the Food Standards Agency has said. The advice follows

Iran says it has launched its second space rocket, the Kavosh 2, in a successful follow-up to the first launch in February. State media said

The BBC has seen evidence of serious overcrowding and poor living conditions in one of Iraq’s prisons. In Baghdad’s Rusafa facility, about 150 prisoners were

When Roqaya Khalili wants to visit friends or relatives, or do the weekly shopping at the supermarket, she picks up the phone and dials a

US economic, military and political dominance is likely to decline over the next two decades, according to a new US intelligence report on global trends.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has told Israeli PM Ehud Olmert he is deeply concerned about humanitarian conditions in the blockaded Gaza Strip. In a telephone

People in Gaza may be without UN food aid from Saturday, after Israel refused to allow in emergency supplies. The territory has been sealed off

Fawzia al-Kurd, 52, raises her black cloak to show the bottoms of the pyjamas she is still wearing several days after she and her wheelchair-bound

Palestinian medical workers say a member of a militant group has died in an explosion in the Gaza Strip. Another militant is said to have

Eight people have been killed in a suicide bombing near the city of Ramadi, in Iraq’s Anbar province, west of Baghdad, Iraqi police say. Several

Police in Iraq say that at least 11 people have been killed in two separate explosions in the capital Baghdad. Seven people died and a

Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has offered his congratulations to Barack Obama on his presidential win. It is the first official message of goodwill presented to

For the past three years, he has been the lucky president. Everything seems to have fallen the right way for Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran. There

US Defence Secretary Robert Gates has warned of “dramatic consequences” if Washington and Baghdad do not agree a security deal on US forces in Iraq.

Supporters of Shia cleric Moqtada Sadr have staged a mass demonstration in Baghdad in protest against plans to extend the US mandate in Iraq. An