Israeli Foreign Minister Yisrael Katz announced yesterday that Israel and Switzerland will work on finding an alternative to UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), the Jerusalem Post reported. These...

More than 1,000 civilians were killed in Syria’s northwestern city of Idlib over the past four months, the United Nations (UN) announced yesterday. The UN High Commissioner for Human...

Amid widespread speculation and anticipation by football fans, Doha has launched the official logo of FIFA World Cup “Qatar 2022.” The emblem was started by simultaneously being displayed on...

On Wednesday, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) announced having to close 175 health facilities in Yemen in September due to lack of funding. In September, UNFPA will be...

Amnesty International has called on Saudi Arabia to reveal the whereabouts of a Qatari father and son who allegedly disappeared during a visit to the kingdom last month, the...

Turkey’s exports to the UK are expected to drop by $2.4-3 billion, in the event of a no-deal Brexit, Turkish Trade Minister Ruhsar Pekcan said on Wednesday, Anadolu reports....

The UN Children’s Agency on Wednesday announced it had launched a vaccination campaign in Yemen to combat diphtheria, Anadolu reports. UNICEF’s health campaign has already started in Al-Hudaydah, Al-Cavf,...

International human rights organisation Amnesty International has slammed the treatment of Arab-Israeli Knesset Members (MKs), accusing the Israeli parliament of routinely discriminating against its Palestinian representatives. Released today, the...

Celine Lebrun-Shaath, wife of detained Egyptian-Palestinian politician Ramy Shaath, has written an impassioned letter to her husband on their wedding anniversary which has been published in Mada Masr. “We...

These are dire times for UNRWA, the UN agency established to care for refugees displaced from Palestine at the creation of the state of Israel in 1948. As the...

Iran yesterday declared its willingness to sign a non-aggression agreement with regional countries, Anadolu reported. Iranian news agency IRNA said the announcement came during a meeting between Iranian Ambassador...

At least 35,000 people in Yemen are facing an early death due to the lack of adequate cancer treatment, the World Health Organisation (WHO) announced on Tuesday, Anadolu has...

Turkish and Russian humanitarian organisations signed an agreement Tuesday to increase aid, especially in Syria’s Idlib province, reports Anadolu Agency. The memorandum of understanding was signed by Turkish Red...

Iraq complained in an official letter to the UN Security Council about the State of Kuwait, accusing it of pursuing a policy of imposing geographical changes in the maritime...

Yemen can expect substantial swarms of locusts in coming months as its war hinders pest control measures needed to prevent devastating plagues, the United Nations said on Tuesday, reports...

The United States, Britain and France may be complicit in war crimes in Yemen by arming and providing intelligence and logistics support to a Saudi-led coalition that starves civilians as a...

Despite financial setbacks caused by political agendas and misconduct allegations, the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) ensured that its schools opened on time for the new academic year....

A petition to keep reuniting child refugees with their families is circulating after the Home Office said it was preparing to end the current system of family reunification for...

Up to 120,000 Palestinian refugee children have returned to 169 UNRWA schools in Jordan for the start of the new academic year. The Hashemite Kingdom hosts 2.3 million registered...

Chief of Staff of the Israeli army Aviv Kochavi has called on UNIFIL Commander Stefano Del and Lebanon to stop Hezbollah’s precision missiles, the Shehab News Agency reported yesterday....

On Monday the Yemeni Minister of Transport, Saleh Al-Gibwani, declared that “dialogue with the UAE militias will only be through weapons,” referring to the secessionist forces of the “Southern...

The EU on Monday voiced concern over Sunday’s airstrike in Yemen‘s southwestern province of Dhamar, claiming dozens of lives, reports Anadolu Agency. “This attack, which takes place amidst a...

The Libyan Ministry of Transportation of the UN-recognized Government of National Accord (GNA) has announced on Monday that the aviation at Tripoli’s Mitiga International Airport has been temporarily suspended...

The International Criminal Court (ICC) has ordered its prosecutor to reconsider whether Israel should face charges over the deadly 2010 raid on the Turkish aid ship heading to the...

Over 100 people died after a series of air strikes carried out by the Saudi-led coalition on a detention centre in Yemen yesterday, the International Committee of the Red...

Read part 1 and part 2 Honestly, why should we blame the West, which claims to defend human rights, for their crimes against Muslims when the blame and all...

The New York-based Human Rights Watch has reported today that at least three Syrians deported by the Lebanese authorities have already been arrested by the Syrian regime upon their...

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Saturday that his country would sell its oil “to any party willing to buy.” This came in a tweet posted by...

Libya’s Mitiga International Airport was attacked yesterday by warplanes loyal to the Libyan general Khalifa Haftar forces as pilgrims land home. Local media reported that the airstrikes have left...

The number of bodies recovered from the rubble of the Dhamar prison in northern Yemen, which is being used as a detention facility by the Houthi militias, rose to...

As Canada approaches a federal election next month, there appears to be little difference between the two main rival parties – the Liberals and the Conservatives – when it...

A senior Iranian official said on Saturday the United States had shown flexibility on the licensing of Iranian oil sales and this was a sign that Washington’s “maximum pressure”...