The sniper barrel juts out of the ancient wall above Jerusalem’s Damascus Gate, pointing down towards a young Palestinian being searched by Israeli policemen. A key tourist site and one of the ...

As protests continue across Jerusalem against the forced evictions of Palestinian families in the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood, armed Israeli forces have descended on the Old City's Damascus Gate.

Opposition fighters are closing in on Syria’s capital in a swiftly developing crisis that has taken much of the world by surprise. Syria's army has abandoned key cities with little resistance. Nervous ...