Noel Baker travels to Lebanon, where as many as 1.5m Syrian refugees find themselves in limbo on the fourth anniversary of the outbreak of the conflict

Gunmen targeted three senior Hamas officials in the West Bank, kidnapping one, torching the car of a second and shooting in the air as a third emerged from a mosque, officials said today.

Two Palestinian gunmen, including a local militia leader suspected of sending two suicide bombers to Israel last month, were killed early today in what witnesses said was an Israeli helicopter attack.