Thousands of people were evacuated from the last rebel-held enclave of Aleppo on Monday in return for insurgents allowing people to leave two besieged pro-government villages in nearby Idlib...

The United Nations Security Council today unanimously called for UN officials and others to observe the evacuation of people from the last opposition-held enclave in Aleppo and monitor the...

Nearly 50 children who were trapped in an orphanage in the opposition-held Syrian enclave of east Aleppo were evacuated today, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said. “This morning,...

The United Nation’s envoy for Libya Martin Kobler has congratulated the Libyan people for reclaiming control of the city of Sirte from Daesh but reminded them to remain “vigilant”...

France’s Ambassador to the United Nations, Francois Delattre, on Saturday said the international presence prevents Aleppo from turning into another Srebrenica, where thousands of Bosnian men and boys were...

Around 100,000 people have been displaced from Mosul since a major offensive was launched in October to recapture the Daesh-held city in northern Iraq, the UN mission in Iraq...

Official Egyptian media sources said that Mahmoud Shafik Mohamed Mostafa, a 22-year-old suicide bomber who was allegedly declared by President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi to had been responsible for the...

Videos posted on social media showed men with guns cheering after torching the green buses before they were able to reach the villages.

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) hopes to resume the evacuation of civilians and wounded from the Syrian enclave of east Aleppo on Sunday, a spokeswoman said....

The United Nations Security Council is due to vote Sunday on a French-drafted resolution aimed at ensuring that UN officials can monitor evacuations from besieged parts of the Syrian...

Iran has shown commitment to the deal on its nuclear programme agreed with world powers, the head of the United Nations atomic energy watchdog said on Sunday, following complaints...

Outgoing UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon reiterated on Friday that there is no alternative to the two-state solution and ending the Israeli imposed siege on the Gaza Strip, Turkish...

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) asked Syria’s warring parties to agree quickly on a plan to evacuate people from east Aleppo and provide “solid” safety guarantees...

The UN Committee Against Torture has condemned Morocco for retrieving a confession under torture. Naama Asfari, who is currently serving 30 years in prison, was arrested in 2010 with...

The head of the atomic energy watchdog agency of the United Nations will travel to Iran on Sunday for meetings about the country’s implementation of its nuclear agreement with...

France said today it is pushing for the United Nations Security Council to ensure the evacuation of Aleppo is coordinated by international observers, that humanitarian aid is allowed in...

Outgoing United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon today urged Israeli lawmakers to reconsider a bill to legalise Israeli settlements built on private Palestinian land as Arab states mull putting forward...

The evacuation of Aleppo has been suspended as blasts were heard at departure points, the Guardian newspaper has reported. Citing a Syrian state run TV station, the paper stated...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called on the Algerian authorities to release Hassan Bouras, the journalist who was sentenced to a year in prison last November for posting a...

Saudi Arabia has imposed a temporary ban on the import of poultry livestock, meat, eggs, chicks and their products and equipment from Tunisia and Poland, an official source at...

Samantha Power's little drama fooled no one this week

A network of campaigners has warned of a chilling effect posed by a definition of anti-Semitism recently adopted by the British government. In a statement published this week, Free...

UN envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura warned on Thursday that without a ceasefire or political agreement the opposition-stronghold of Idlib risked becoming a new Aleppo after the evacuation...

Russian air strikes in the Aleppo, Syria, region have killed some 1,207 civilians, 380 of them children, the Syrian White Helmets civil defense group told United Nations war crimes...

A group of oil guards in Libya said on Thursday they had reopened a long blockaded pipeline leading from the major oil fields of Sharara and El Feel, but...

Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) are illegal, constituting a grave violation of the Geneva Conventions. They are also an impediment to a long-term negotiated deal, in...

Many of the historic city’s ancient structures and world-famous landmarks have been devastated.

A United Nations report released this week has criticised the levels of rape, torture and enslavement migrants face when arriving in Libya. “The situation of migrants in Libya is...

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) has called on Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to stop his normalisation meetings with Israel. The movement described the president’s...

Palestine’s BDS National Committee (BNC) leads and coordinates the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement. It has been the biggest year yet for BDS, but it has also been a...

Protesters blockading pipelines to Libya’s Sharara and El Feel oil fields have promised to reopen them and production could restart in the coming days, security officials and an oil...

The Grand Mufti of Al-Azhar Ahmed Al-Tayyeb has sent a clear message on the preservation of historical heritage whose destruction is being threatened by terrorist groups “swarming” around the...