The United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) has warned of an impending conflict in southern Libya amid military incursions and statements by opposing parties. The mission called in...

Russian Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov said yesterday that more efforts are needed to facilitate the return of Syrian refugees to their country. The Russian minister made the remarks during...

In the past few years, Israel, the alien state in the region, has been sleeping in peace in a way that it has never dreamt of since it was...

Secretary General of the Arab League Ahmed Aboul-Gheit said on Sunday that half of all refugees “come from our Arab world,” agencies reported. At the opening session of the...

The European Union yesterday imposed sanctions against nine Syrian and Russian officials for their involvement in chemical weapons attacks in war-torn Syria. The decision was made during a meeting...

The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in the occupied Palestinian territories (OCHA) released statistics on Monday showing that 254 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since...

Israeli occupation authorities are planning to force Palestinians out of Jerusalem by threatening to close UNRWA schools, Insan Centre for Democracy and Rights said yesterday. Recent news reports revealed...

More than 250 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli army fire and over 23,000 injured since the start of the “Great March of Return” protests in the besieged Gaza Strip on...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Monday that migrants and asylum seekers end up in “nightmarish detention,” and accused the EU and Italy of contributing to the cycle of...

Western newspapers have talked about the fierce political and security rivalry between France and Italy over Libya, amid a hindered political process due to the contradicted US project, which...

The ‘State of Palestine’ has officially been handed the Chairmanship of the G-77, the United Nations largest block. This is particularly significant considering the relentless Israeli-American plotting to torpedo...

Demonstrators took to the streets of Sudan again with the intention of submitting a popular petition to parliament calling for President Omar Al-Bashir to step down. In the city...

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR ) said the number of Saudi asylum seekers has increased by 318 per cent in 2017 compared with...

Arab leaders who met in the Lebanese capital Beirut yesterday reaffirmed their support for Jerusalem, refugees and stressed on the importance of supporting the UN Agency for Palestine Refugees...

Arab countries are facing an urgent need for a plan to fight poverty in light of the world’s changing balances of economic powers, Mahmoud Mohieldin, senior vice president of...

Amnesty International called yesterday for the Egyptian authorities to immediately release Egyptian human rights activist Hoda Abdelmonem. In a tweet, the rights group wrote that Abdelmonem had been forcibly...

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said Friday the Human Rights Council has the capacity to probe the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, Anadolu Agency reports. “The Human Rights Council...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) said yesterday that 24.4 million Yemenis are in need of humanitarian assistance, 80 per cent of the country’s 28-million-strong population. Writing on Twitter, the...

Chair of the UN Security Council’s Sudan Sanctions Committee, Joanna Wronecka, yesterday accused Sudan and armed groups in the Darfur region of violating the arms embargo imposed on the...

The Iraqi government has not fulfilled its promises of providing aid to displaced persons returning voluntarily, compensating them and rehabilitating their homes, a spokesman for the Office of the...

Yemen’s warring parties hope to deliver final lists of prisoners to the United Nations after talks in Amman on Thursday under an exchange agreement, a government delegate said, Reuters reports....

The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) has been able to make up the deficit in its budget following the US move...

The head of a UN mission tasked with overseeing a peace deal in Yemen’s Hudaydah port city is safe after an armoured car in his convoy was hit by...

The Palestinian Authority (PA) continues to measure its purported success by international standards. After assuming the presidency of the Group of 77 (G77), new plans are underway to launch...

On 19 December, the Sudanese government decided to triple the price of bread, prompting a wave of anti-government protests which swiftly escalated into demonstrations calling an end to the...

A crisis surrounding three Italian security guards thought to be undercover Israeli forces operating in the Gaza Strip has ended. In a statement issued yesterday, the spokesman of the...

Malaysian Foreign Minister, Saifuddin Bin Abdullah, stressed yesterday that his country will not backtrack on its decision to deny entry to Israeli athletes seeking to participate in an upcoming...

A United Nations agency has stated humanitarian operations in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) are being “undermined by delegitimization, access restrictions, and administrative constraints”. According to UN OCHA, “attempts...

The Israeli-US war declared on the Palestinian boycott movement is coming to a head, culminating in a well-orchestrated effort aimed at suffocating any form of tangible protest of the...

Rival militias clashed in the Libyan capital Tripoli on Wednesday and at least five people were killed and 20 wounded, the health ministry said, splintering a four-month-old, UN-brokered ceasefire, Reuters...

Yemen’s warring sides started talks in Amman on Wednesday on how to implement a prisoner exchange that will allow thousands of families to be reunited as part of UN-led...

The Arab League said yesterday that it has not been asked to mediate between Libya and Lebanon following Tripoli’s recent announcement that it is boycotting the Arab Economic Summit...