Russia compared to Nazis in UK Syria debate

Aftermath of attack on aid convoy in Urum al-Kubra, Syria (20 September 2016)

Aftermath of attack on aid convoy in Urum al-Kubra, Syria (20 September 2016)

A former cabinet minister has likened Russian bombing in Syria to Nazi attacks in Spain in the 1930s during an emergency Commons debate on the humanitarian situation in Aleppo

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Israel slams ‘politically motivated and morally flawed’ UN Gaza report

Israeli soldiers seen at a deployment area near the border with the Gaza Strip on August 25, 2014 (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israeli soldiers seen at a deployment area near the border with the Gaza Strip on August 25, 2014 (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Foreign Ministry says investigators ‘lacked much of the relevant information’; Netanyahu concludes ‘report is biased’

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Group files war crimes lawsuits against Palestinian leaders

PA President Mahmoud Abbas and PA Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah during a ceremony to mark the tenth anniversary of the death of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in the West Bank city of Ramallah on November 11, 2014. (photo credit: AFP PHOTO / ABBAS MOMANI)

PA President Mahmoud Abbas and PA Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah during a ceremony to mark the tenth anniversary of the death of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in the West Bank city of Ramallah on November 11, 2014. (photo credit: AFP PHOTO / ABBAS MOMANI)

Israeli NGO seeks to prosecute top PA heads following Abbas’s request to join the International Criminal Court

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