Middle East News

In a speech to the Knesset, the Israeli Parliament, Prime Minister David Cameron claims to have "some sense of connection" to the Israeli people, saying his great-great-grandfather was a Jewish man from Germany

Britain's ambassador has come under fire from striking fellow diplomats for failing to urge David Cameron to postpone his trip to Israel

If passed, the bill would have the Israeli public vote on land withdrawals in East Jerusalem and occupied Golan Heights

Save the Children report says Syrian health system is on the brink of collapse with the absence of basic medical necessities and many doctors having fled the country to avoid harassment from waring factions

As new allegations emerge about the Lockerbie disaster in which 270 people died, The Telegraph charts the key dates in the investigation since 1989

Ex-CIA agent Robert Baer says former colleagues stated that Iran bombed Pan-Am Flight 103 in retaliation for the downing of an Iran Air passenger plane by a US Navy ship in July 1988

A BBC Persian report says that the two Iranians on the Malaysia Airlines plane had bought the fake passports in order to migrate to Germany and Denmark

Benjamin Netanyahu criticises the international community for failing to condemn a deadly weapons shipment he says was organised by Iran and bound for Palestinian militants

Opinions in Beit Shemesh are sharply polarised between secularists and ultra-Orthodox as voters prepare for an election that is being restaged after allegations of fraud

Move is unlikely to soothe the fears of many Syrian Christians that their ancient minority is in danger should rebels come to power

Amnesty International has accused government forces of starving the population and targeting doctors in Damascus' Yarmouk refugee camp

The grim conditions endured by thousands of people jailed by Egypt's new military government have been revealed in footage smuggled out of one of the country's maximum security prisons

Benjamin Netanyahu has told the EU foreign policy chief to challenge Iran about a consignment of rockets, which Israel says Tehran ordered shipped to militants in Gaza

A suicide bomber driving a minibus packed with explosives has killed at least 32 people and wounded 147 in the southern Iraqi city of Hilla

Libya threatens to bomb a North Korean-flagged tanker at an oil terminal in the restive east if it does not leave, saying it was loading illegally

Our faith is under mortal threat, in danger of being driven into extinction, the same pattern we have seen in neighbouring Iraq, says Antoine Audo

Abdullah Azzam Brigades said they are sorry for deaths of orphan children in a Beirut blast, which they saw was caused by a 'technical fault'

British PM and Pope may be forced to call off scheduled visits as Israeli diplomats strike

Airline says son of Iraqi's transport minister threatened to prevent plane from landing if it did not come back to get him

This hard-hitting video charts how a British child's life would change if the country were to descend into civil war