The United Nations Security Council on Friday slapped targeted sanctions against a former Yemeni president and two Shia tribal leaders for threatening the stability of the country and impeding...

Since 2008, Gaza has been the scene of three immensely destructive wars. A strict Israeli blockade on materials coming in and out of Gaza means that in each instance,...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) Executive Director Kenneth Roth has said that during the rule of the Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, who led last year’s military coup, Egypt has...

The Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) has forecast that the global demand for oil will rise to 96 million barrels per day in 2019, an annual average increase...

Head of Hamas Political Bureau Khalid Meshaal yesterday called for the Arab states and all the Palestinians to move towards saving Al-Aqsa Mosque, saying it is not only the...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan confirmed to Palestinian leaders that Turkey will start an initiative at the UN Security Council to stop the Israeli aggression in Al-Aqsa Mosque compound....

The EU’s new foreign policy chief, Federica Mogherini, strongly condemned on Wednesday Israel’s continued settlement activities in the occupied Palestinian territories. Mogherini particularly condemned the construction of 500 new...

Seven human rights organisations decided not to take part in the UN session to review Egypt’s human rights file yesterday. The organisations decided not to send representatives or to...

An official source in the Egyptian foreign ministry has expressed “extreme surprise” over the UN’s decision to deduct $30 million in administrative costs from the aid donated for the...

“Israel’s latest decision for settlement expansion in Jerusalem is not only a slap in Secretary Kerry’s face, but it’s a blow to the entire Palestinian...

Human Rights Watch has called for the review at the UN Human Rights Council to condemn “the most dramatic reversal of human rights in Egypt’s modern history under President...

The Arab draft resolution regarding setting a timeframe for ending the Israeli occupation will be presented for voting at the UN Security Council before the end of the month,...

The International Criminal Court (ICC) is expected to officially declare that Israel is guilty of “war crimes” on Thursday for the attack on a Turkish aid ship bound for...

The twentieth session of the Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Working Group has concluded its review of Egypt’s human rights situation which was held in Geneva. The...

There was hardly any mention of the Rabaa Al-Adawiya massacre in Egypt’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) at the UN today. Only Iceland remarked on the massacre saying it is...

The United States and other countries on Wednesday slammed the human rights situation in Egypt at a United Nations meeting reviewing the country’s record for the first time since...

Spokesperson for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Jens Laerke said on Tuesday that the UN in Iraq is calling for an additional $173 million to...

Turkey’s GDP will move steadily higher from 2015 through 2016, a European Commission forecast said. Turkey’s GDP grew at a surprisingly fast rate at the beginning of the year,...

The Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas has opposed the United Nations plans to reconstruct Gaza, a senior leader said. In a statement published on Facebook, Mousa Abu-Marzouk said that the...

Below is the text of the press statement released by ITN Solicitors, acting on behalf of Egypt’s Freedon & Justice Party. On 5 November 2014, Egypt is to have...

Spokesman of the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) Joel Millman said on Friday that about 3,200 migrants died in the Mediterranean en-route to Europe this year. “An estimated 3,200...

The number of Israeli settlements on occupied Palestinian land have doubled in the last 54 months, UN Commission on Human Rights member Cees Flinterman said today. Flinterman presented the...

The Universal Periodic Review Working Group (UPR) which works on reviewing the human rights record of UN member states was preparing to review Iran’s human rights record this morning....

The European Union’s Ambassador to Egypt, James Moran, has refused to link the bombings in the Sinai that occurred last Friday to the Muslim Brotherhood. Rassd News Network quoted...

A UN panel of independent experts in Geneva has urged Israel to end a host of practices violating Palestinian human rights. The UN Human Rights Committee, which monitors implementation...

Head of the Egyptian Human Rights Council Abdel-Ghaffar Shokr said that the UN Human Rights Council will discuss three reports about Egypt on November 5, the Anadolu Agency reported....

The European Union expressed its deepest regret over the execution of the young Iranian woman Rehanna Jabbari and sent its “deepest condolences to Jabbari’s family especially her mother”. The...

The European Union expressed its deepest regret over the execution of the young Iranian woman Rehanna Jabbari and sent its “deepest condolences to Jabbari’s family especially her mother”. The...

The above clip taken from a Fox News broadcast aired last week shows the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) spokesperson Christopher Gunness and anti-Palestinian activist David Bedein debating...

Gulf countries should make economic reforms, International Monetary Fund Managing Director, Christine Lagarde, said at the opening of an IMF-Middle East Center for Economics and Finance in Kuwait City...

Algerian authorities have refused to open an office for the International Red Cross in Tamanrasset Province on the border with Mali in order to take care of African refugees,...

At last, it appears that the United Nations General Assembly’s (UNGA) 138-9 majority vote in November 2012 to accord Palestine observer state status might finally be bearing fruit. Sweden’s...