United Nations human rights experts today urged Switzerland to repatriate two Geneva sisters from a squalid camp in north-eastern Syria five years after the girls were allegedly abducted by...

A brief but revealing press statement marked the meeting of US Ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield with the Commissioner-General of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine...

Iran has installed extra advanced centrifuges at its underground uranium enrichment plant at Natanz that was hit by a blast last week, a report by the UN atomic watchdog showed...

The European Union announced on Wednesday that it will continue to fund an education project for Syrian children in Turkey. The project known by its acronym PIKTES — Promoting...

The Palestinian Ministry of Religious Endowments in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday condemned the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA)'s exclusion of religion from its digital...

The West Darfur state, in the far west of Sudan, yesterday declared Geneina a disaster-stricken area and requested urgent humanitarian intervention from the federal government as a result of tribal fighting...

Turkey, Qatar, and the UN have agreed to postpone the Istanbul Conference for the Afghanistan peace process, a joint statement issued today has revealed. The high-level conference hosted by...

There has been a 300 per cent rise in executions in Egypt, which has become the third most frequent executioner in the world, according to a new report on...

Syria was today stripped of its voting rights at the global chemical weapons watchdog by member states after its forces were found to have repeatedly used poison gas during...

Turkey has been criticised heavily over the past few years for what some see as a series of foreign policy blunders, from its military intervention in northern Syria to...

Talks between Iran, the US and four world powers aimed at restoring the 2015 nuclear agreement will reconvene next week, senior officials said in Vienna on Tuesday, Anadolu Agency reported. "Progress...

Yemen's COVID-19 vaccination campaign began in government-held areas on Tuesday three weeks after the first shipment from the global COVAX vaccine-sharing scheme arrived in the war-torn country, Reuters reported. Yemen on...

Sudan's foreign minister on Tuesday said she briefed the UN Security Council on the failure of the Kinshasa talks on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) project, Anadolu Agency reported. In...

UN experts today demanded the United Arab Emirates (UAE) provide information about a daughter of Dubai's ruler and release her, two months after the BBC aired a video it said was...

According to a source in Washington, "he Biden administration will look with understanding at the possibility of postponing the elections for some time. Washington would not object to...

Ethiopia is threatening Sudan's national security with its intention to begin filling the Renaissance Dam's reservoir in July, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mariam Al-Sadiq Al-Mahdi, said in a statement...

The Vaclav Havel Human Rights Prize is awarded by the PACE to figures who actively defend human rights in civil society

Ankara filed a complaint against Riyadh at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) over the semi-official Saudi boycott of trading with Turkey, Arabi21 reported yesterday. Reporting the Turkish Sabah newspaper, Arabi21 said that Turkish officials had...

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Yemen yesterday warned that more than one million displaced Yemenis are at risk due to the ongoing fighting in the Marib Governorate....

A member of Fatah's Central Committee is pressuring Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails to call for postponing the upcoming elections if Israel bans them in Jerusalem, Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar revealed yesterday....

The UN nuclear watchdog and Iran on Monday started talks aimed at obtaining explanations from Tehran on the origin of uranium traces at found at undeclared locations in Iran,...

Iran has asked Interpol to arrest a man suspected of carrying out the attack on its Natanz nuclear facility in the name of Israel earlier this month, according to reports. Iranian...

PalMed Europe yesterday launched an Endowment Fund to help fund pioneering medical aid programmes in Palestine. Speaking to attendants, head of the Palestinian Physicians' Association in Britain (PalMed), Dr Riyad...

A number of US congressional staffers are pushing for removing allegedly "anti-Semitic" content from the curricula taught to Palestinian children in schools run by the United Nations Relief and...

Member of Fatah's Central Committee and the PLO's Executive Committee Azzam Al-Ahmad yesterday reiterated that the PLO and Fatah will not accept carrying out elections without Jerusalem. Speaking to Voice...

Iran has started the process of enriching uranium to 60% fissile purity at an above-ground nuclear plant at Natanz, the UN nuclear watchdog said on Saturday, confirming earlier statements...

The Bashar Al-Assad regime used nearly 82,000 barrel bombs in nine years of attacks on civilian settlements under the control of the opposition in different parts of Syria, a...

Libya's High Council of State on Saturday welcomed UN Security Council Resolution 2570, which calls for timely presidential and parliamentary elections in Libya scheduled for December 24 this year,...

UN human rights experts have warned that violent attacks against Palestinian civilians in the occupied West Bank, including physical assaults and property demolitions carried out by Israeli settlers, have...

President Joe Biden's U-turn on ending US support for offensive operations in Yemen earlier this week with the resumption of arms sale to the UAE has been condemned as a "disastrous"...

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has recommended the Security Council to refer cases of conflict-related sexual violence in a number of countries to the International Criminal Court (ICC). The countries...

The United Nations (UN) Secretary-General's Special Representative for Iraq Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert warned on Thursday that the drone attack at the Global Coalition Against Daesh's headquarters at Erbil International Airport...