There has been public uproar in Israel and abroad following a verdict of guilty of manslaughter at a military tribunal for a young army medic, Elior Azaria.

A flight recorder from the Russian military plane that crashed into the Black Sea is on its way to Moscow for analysis.

The Belgian army has taken to the streets of Brussels.

The Iraqi military says around a hundred decapitated bodies have been found in a mass grave in the recently-retaken town of Hamam al-Alil. Most, they say, were reduced to skeletons.

Israeli forces have shot dead a Palestinian who they say stabbed and wounded a soldier in the West Bank.

The main body representing Syrian opposition groups has set out its plan to end the war under which President al-Assad would step down after six months of talks.

Eight Turkish soldiers who fled to Greece after last month’s failed military coup in their homeland, say they fear execution if they are sent back.