The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, OCHA, has revealed that the Israeli authorities have demolished a number of buildings in six populated districts in Area...

Former UN secretary general Kofi Annan said in an interview with the Guardian Saturday that the international community has let down the Syrian people by failing to prevent the...

The UN Secretary General’s Special Representative in Iraq, Nikolay Mladenov, has voiced his concern about reports of increased armed activities in Fallujah in the Anbar province and its devastating...

The following is a statement from UNRWA spokesperson Chris Gunness: Since the beginning of 2013, UNRWA has observed a sharp increase in the number of Palestine refugees killed and...

Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman has called for Israel to make efforts on all levels to acquire at least observer status in the Organisation of African Unity. Al-Quds news...

The United Nations Support Mission in Libya, UNSMIL called on Monday for all Libyan parties to immediately cease all military actions and address differences through political means instead of...

In an escalation of the attacks on the UN’s Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), Israel’s Ambassador to the UN Ron Prosor speaks...

The Palestinian Ministry of Prisoners and Freed Prisoners is to hold a meeting on Monday with the EU representatives and ambassadors from other countries, in Ramallah to give update...

Head of the Palestinian Anti-Corruption Commission Rafik Natsheh has revealed that Jordan would soon hand over three Palestinian officials accused of embezzling public funds, Arab media reported. An informed...

The United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has condemned the water cut to the Syrian city of Aleppo and called on “all parties to ensure the return of water supplies...

The European Union announced Saturday it will not dispatch observers to the upcoming presidential elections scheduled for May 26-27 due to the lack of guarantees that would protect their...

Iran’s deputy foreign minister for legal and international affairs Abbas Araghchi announced on Friday the failure of the fourth round of talks with the P5+1 over his country’s nuclear...

Amidst expectations of a Russian and Chinese veto, the UNSC is to vote on a French draft resolution calling to bring Syria before the International Criminal Court (ICC.) Russia...

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in Sudan, OCHA said Thursday that the number of South Sudanese refugees fleeing the conflict in their country has...

Reiterating the right to memory has sustained Palestinian tenacity towards reclaiming their land and the right of return. However, their adamant statements on each Nakba commemoration are threatened by...

The secretary general of the Arab League said on Wednesday that he deeply regretted the resignation of the joint UN-Arab League special envoy to Syria. Nabil Elaraby said that...

More than three years into the Syrian war, during which well over 100,000 people have been killed and torture has become commonplace, a sense of impunity still persists on...

No one will ever forget that the blockade imposed by the occupying power in Gaza, in cooperation with international and regional powers, is the longest siege in modern times....

International Criminal Court prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda demanded on Tuesday the Libyan authorities to immediately hand over Saif al-Islam Gaddafi to face crimes against humanity charges. Saif al-Islam, the son...

26 former European leaders, including former Presidents, Prime Ministers, Foreign Ministers and European Commissioners, have written a letter to EU President Van Rompuy and High Representative Catherine Ashton, calling...

The Haaretz Newspaper has obtained a copy of the draft resolution that the Palestinian Authority will present to the United Nations, calling for condemnation of Israel over its actions...

The EU-Israel Association Agreement is the legal framework upon which relations between Israel and the European Union are based. It was signed in 1995 and came into effect in...

Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu has said that peace in the Middle East is not achievable because Israel continues to occupy Palestinian lands. Speaking at the opening ceremony of...

The Council of the European Union has adopted the EU Guidelines on Freedom of Expression online and offline, adding to the EU’s Human Rights Guidelines. The EU hailed the...

The Muslim Brotherhood praised the Brussels Declaration which was announced last week by a number of leading Egyptian political figures. The initiative seeks to unite all the revolutionary forces...

Prince Nawaf Bin Faisal Bin Fahd, General President of Youth Welfare authority in Saudi Arabia, said in an interview with the Saudi Sabq electronic newspaper that the Federation Internationale...

The EU move to upgrade formally its Association Agreement with Israel, giving the latter even greater preferential access to European markets, has come under criticism since its announcement...

Egypt’s next president could not have made himself clearer. In two sessions of television interview that marked the start and mostly likely the end, too, of his election campaign,...

They could have gone to another friendly city in the Middle East or Europe, but a group of leading Egyptian opposition figures chose Brussels to launch their initiative to...

The International Union of Architects (IUA) discussed on Wednesday a call for expelling the Israeli Association of United Architects (IAUA) from the union against the backdrop of the association’s...

The African Union’s Peace and Security Council rejected the union’s participation in monitoring the upcoming presidential elections in Egypt. The PSC recommended Monday that the AU does not dispatch...

American and Arab sports activists in the United States have launched the Red Card Israeli Racism campaign calling for Israel to be expelled from the Fédération Internationale de Football...