A 100-day war between Israel and Hamas unfolds, rooted in a historic conflict over territory. The struggle, spanning seven decades, involve...

Hamas, which rules Gaza, has stockpiled weapons, missiles, food and medical supplies, according to the people, who declined to be named due...

Israel's founding father David Ben-Gurion proclaimed the modern State of Israel on May 14, 1948, establishing a safe haven for Jews fleeing...

The conflict between Israel and Palestine has a long history, spanning seven decades. It originated from Israeli demands for security in a ...

The Masjid al-Aqsa, or simply Al-Aqsa, means “the farthest mosque” or “the farthest sanctuary,” and refers to the lead-domed mosque within ...

Hamas fighters rampaged through Israeli towns as the country suffered its bloodiest day in decades on Saturday. Israel battered Palestinian...

The military wing of Hamas, Al-Qassam Brigades, launched a surprise attack on Israel, claiming it was in defense of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, a h...

At the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, a walled esplanade above the Western Wall, hundreds of Palestinians performed prayers as part of observance...

Itamar Ben-Gvir, an extremist lawmaker who has called for the death penalty for Palestinian attackers and who is set to become the minister...

Police said the violence took place near an entrance to a contested flashpoint shrine known to Jews as the Temple Mount and to Muslims as t...

Egyptian mediators have been shuttling between Israel and the Gaza Strip, which is ruled by Hamas, to try to sustain the ceasefire and have...

Since the latest war erupted last week, Palestinian militants have fired more than 3,200 rockets at Israeli cities. Most were intercepted o...

At the core of the violence that has left dozens dead are tensions between Israelis and Palestinians over Jerusalem, which contains sites s...

The difference between the reactions to the 1992 demolition and last Wednesday’s bhoomipuja would indicate that India has changed very sign...

A subsidy for religious pilgrims amounts to discrimination against rationalists and atheists, violating Constitutional guarantees of equali...

Most pilgrims in Uttarakhand weren’t like this but as the number of affluent Indians have been increasing, so has their desire to go on pil...

Think Israel and two cities immediately spring to mind: ancient Jerusalem (which is now the country’s capital) and Tel Aviv, the commercial...