Amnesty International yesterday called for ousted Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi to receive a fair retrial in a civilian court in line with international standards or to be released. The...

Syrian armed opposition groups have rejected accusations made against them by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon of committing sexual violence in Syria during the period of Januar-December 2014, the...

The Egyptian government said on Sunday that it has asked five EU countries and the United States to freeze the bank accounts of 30 opposition figures living abroad, Anadolu...

United Nations denied that it had mediated between the Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas and Israel in order to reach a long-term truce and to agree on using the cement...

UN envoy to Libya Bernardino Leon said Sunday that 80 percent of a UN draft proposal to resolve the Libyan crisis has been agreed to by the country’s warring...

On Friday, 17 April 2015, a massive demonstration was held in front of the European Parliament in Brussels to commemorate both the 10th anniversary of the popular Ahwazi uprising...

Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif submitted on Friday a letter to UN Secretary-General Ban ki-Moon proposing a four-point peace plan for the conflict in Yemen, Anadolu reported. “I would...

Egypt has asked the EU to freeze the assets of two Muslims Brotherhood leaders however they have not received a response yet, an official revealed yesterday. Speaking to the...

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif urged UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to put an immediate end to Operation Storm of Resolve in Yemen and provide humanitarian aid to the...

Members of the UN Security Council held a closed meeting yesterday to hear testimonies related to the use of chlorine gas in Syria. During the meeting, a video showing...

Some 16 European foreign ministers have called on the EU to push forward the process of labelling goods sourced from illegal Israeli settlements. The ministers signed a letter addressed...

Some 12 million children in the Middle East are out of school as a result of poverty, sexual discrimination and violence, in spite of efforts to increase the education...

The United Nations official charged with coordinating the Middle East peace process yesterday reiterated his demands to the Israeli authorities to the release millions of dollars in tax revenues...

The United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday accused Syrian regime forces and six armed groups of committing rape and other acts of sexual violence in Syria during the...

The Libyan General National Congress (GNC) warned that it would suspend participation in the United Nations (UN) backed national dialogue in the Moroccan city of Skhirat, Anadolu news agency...

The United States yesterday called on Iran to respect the United Nations Security Council’s newly passed arms embargo on Yemen and stop supporting Shia Houthi rebels there, the Anadolu...

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has said it expects economic growth in the Middle East and North Africa countries to drop by 1 per cent to reach 2.9 per...

Surviving life in the Islamic State (ISIS) held Palestinian refugee camp of Yarmouk in Syria is a “miracle”, UNRWA Commissioner-General Pierre Krähenbühl said, describing life there as “hell”. In...

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...