Just outside the Tbeish family home, people began to gather at sunset. Some carried flags, but most held posters of the town's native son, Ayman. A child carried a placard depicting a young man in chains; "Ayman is dying" read another sign, held by an elderly man. 　　In what has... More

　　Evidence is emerging of reprisal killings of 50 Sunni detainees in the custody of Iraqi forces as retaliation for predominantly Sunni militant group, ISIS's take over of parts of Iraq in the last three weeks, say Amnesty International. 　　Survivors and relatives of the victims said that the detainees were extra... More

　　The clock above Gaza Strip resident Ahlam Abed chimed 6:00am and in that hour there was strong knocking on the door of her house. The knocking was one of fear. 　　Behind the door there was a Palestinian family that sought safety from Israel's ceaseless rocket and bomb attacks on the... More

　　On September 16, 2012, at three in the morning, Mohammad Zahir Shah, received a phone call. 　　There were air strikes in the mountains near his home in Lagham province. 　　For the next two hours, Shah and fellow villagers waited for the shelling to come to an end. Then they set... More

　　Amr was arrested in March while having a cup of tea with two friends at a coffee shop in downtown Cairo. 　　Four months later, the 17-year-old remains in jail, accused of involvement with Ansar Bait al-Maqdis, an armed group in the Sinai that has claimed responsibility for a number of... More

　　Before Israel's invasion of Gaza last July, Farah Baker was an ordinary Palestinian teenager growing up in the besieged strip of land by the Mediterranean Sea. But a compelling Twitter feed catapulted her to international fame. 　　"I'm the modern Anne Frank Gaza-Palestine, 16 years old," is the description of Baker's... More

　　At a steep rocky hillside by the road that winds down to the Dead Sea, children of this Palestinian Bedouin community run up and down the rugged slopes, as goats graze on thorny weeds and sheep bleat nearby. 　　The encampment falls on a bare ridge between Jerusalem and Jericho, almost... More

　　Shia militias have abducted and murdered scores of Sunni civilians in Iraq in crimes committed in retribution against the actions of ISIL, according to a new report by Amnesty International. 　　The London-based rights group on Tuesday published what it said was evidence that Shia militias abducted civilians in Baghdad, Samarra... More

　　Israeli police have detained more than 100 Palestinians in East Jerusalem since July for allegedly "throwing stones" at trains. 　　In a Tuesday statement, police said that more than 100 Palestinians had been arrested since July – when a Palestinian teenager was murdered by suspected Jewish settlers – for pelting passing... More

　　Seven Palestinians were killed and 350 others, including three journalists and an ex-female prisoner, detained by Israel during October, a Palestinian NGO said Saturday. 　　Ahrar Center for Prisoners and Human Rights Studies said the seven dead victims included four teenagers less than 15 years of age. 　　The center added in... More

　　A staggering 1,917 people have died of torture, starvation and lack of medical treatment in Syrian prisons this year, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has said. 　　The Britain-based observatory said on Sunday it had documented nearly 2,000 deaths since the start of 2014. 　　The dead include 27 children under... More

　　For months, the streets of mainly Arab East Jerusalem, in the shadow of the Old City but where tourists seldom venture, have been ablaze, with daily clashes between armed Israeli police and Palestinians throwing rocks and Molotov cocktails. 　　The roots of the unrest are many: from the killing in July... More

　　After months of unrest, municipal officials in Jerusalem have begun a widespread crackdown on the Palestinian residents of East Jerusalem, enforcing the finest points of the law in what rights groups have dubbed an act of "collective punishment". 　　Small businesses have been shuttered for unpaid bills, or for lacking the... More