The UN Security Council will vote today on a draft resolution which calls for those involved in Yemen’s Shia Houthi insurgency to be blacklisted, diplomatic sources said. If adopted,...

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon yesterday called on the Egyptian authorities to stop using violence against their people and to listen to their aspirations instead. Ban, speaking in Doha...

Israel is increasingly jailing Palestinians without charge or trial, according to the office of a senior UN human rights official. A spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human...

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon described attempts by Shia Houthi rebels and their allies in Yemen to control territories by force and to undermine the government’s legitimate authority as...

A senior member of Hamas political bureau said the Islamic resistance movement was ready to deal with any investigation initiated by the International Criminal Court, stressing at the same...

Two corrupt entities – FIFA and Israel, have teamed up to ensure another request from Palestine to an international organisation is ridiculed and rejected. As the Palestine FA stated...

A United Nations official said the Israeli recent war on Gaza Strip left nearly 7,000 unexploded ordnances and demanded for them to be defused as a result. The U.N....

The European Union yesterday re-imposed sanctions on an Iranian bank and 32 Iranian shipping companies using new legal justifications after a European court overturned the sanctions. The decision comes...

So relentless has the violence convulsing the Middle East become that an attack on yet another Arab country and its descent into full-scale war barely registers in the rest...

A meeting reportedly takes place in New York today to decide whether or not to include the Israeli military on a list of serious violators of children’s rights, amid...

The International Criminal Court (ICC) has begun its investigation into the crimes committed by Israeli forces during the military attack on Gaza last summer, known as Operation Protective Edge....

The head of the Palestinian Football Association, Jibril Rajoub, has held discussions with the secretary general of the Arab League (AL), Nabil El-Araby, regarding ways for the AL to...

Trapped civilians in Yarmouk are “more desperate than ever” amid fighting in the camp, the head of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) said...

A record number of foreign fighters from more than half of the world’s countries are joining Islamist and Al-Qaeda linked groups, claims the UN. A new report from the...

Israeli occupation forces injured 64 Palestinians in just one week, UN figures have revealed. Most of the injuries during the period 24-30 March took place in the context of...

‘As Palestine formally becomes a State Party to the Rome Statute today, the world is also a step closer to ending a long era of impunity and injustice’ is...

Now that Palestine has formally become a member of the International Criminal Court (ICC), its political forces can no longer afford to delay national reconciliation. It has been overdue...

The efforts of Amnesty International are undeniably significant in monitoring the developments in Palestine and other regions of the world. Nonetheless, Amnesty’s latest report on the events of summer...

The United Nations has evacuated its international staff from Yemen after Saudi Arabia continued its crackdown on Houthi rebels and their allies there. Deputy spokesman for Secretary General, Farhan...

Deputy Spokesman for the United Nations Secretary General, Farhan Haq on Tuesday refused to comment on the Palestine ICC membership going into effect on April, 1 2015. During a...

Dr Dimitris Bouris is a Research Fellow at the European Neighbourhood Policy Chair, at the College of Europe (Natolin). He holds a PhD from the University of Warwick and...

The Palestine Liberation Organisation’s chief negotiator reiterated on Monday that the International Criminal Court (ICC) has already opened an initial investigation into Israeli settlements and alleged war crimes committed...

‘here is no doubt that the conclusion made by Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states that they had to take part in “Operation Decisive Storm” was the toughest they have...

Preparations are underway as The Hague gets ready for the State of Palestine to become the newest member of the International Criminal Court (ICC). Palestine’s Ambassador to the Netherlands...

The European Union’s foreign policy chief on Saturday said they had never been closer to a deal in Iran’s nuclear negotiations, while there were still some critical points to...

The European Union decided on Friday to keep Hamas blacklisted despite a December court ruling that said it should be removed from the “terrorist” list. The Palestinian Islamic Resistance...

The United States has praised Israel’s decision to release Palestinian tax revenues which have been frozen since January. A spokesman for the US state department called it “an important...

The far-right Dutch MP Geert Wilders has called for European countries to allow “jihadists” to travel to Syria and Iraq, Anadolu has reported. The leader of the Party for...

2,312 Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces. 56 of those Palestinian fatalities were killed in the West Bank. 2 Palestinians were killed by Israeli settlers. 67 percent of the...

The outgoing UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process has warned that halting the security cooperation between the Palestinians and Israel “may be the final nail in...

Humanitarian needs in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) are driven by practices related to Israel’s prolonged occupation and recurrent escalations of armed conflict, the UN Office for the Coordination...

UN’s top relief official Valerie Amos says Assad regime has allowed UN access to just three of 33 locations requested for aid delivery since Jan. 1. NEW YORK (AA)...