Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other politicians in the occupation state have insisted again that the International Criminal Court (ICC) has no jurisdiction to investigate possible war crimes...

The Palestinian people are paying the price of the UN Security Council's inability to implement its resolutions in relation to putting an end to the Israeli occupation and illegal...

Israeli settlers have increased their harassment of Palestinian worshippers during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan. The Israeli extremists usually carry out their attacks with the full protection of...

Gen. Scott Miller, the top US commander in Afghanistan, announced on Sunday that foreign troops have begun vacating military bases in the war-ravaged country, Anadolu Agency reported. Commander of the NATO-led...

Iran the world's 2nd most frequent executioner accounted for 56% of all recorded executions in the Middle East followed by Egypt which has witnessed a 300% rise in the implementation of the death penalty

The United Nations (UN) has reiterated the importance of all Palestinians in all occupied Palestinian territories participating in the elections, Stéphane Dujarric, spokesperson for the UN secretary-general, told journalists...

According to the United Nations (UN), 172 migrants are believed to have drowned off the Libyan coast in the past few days. This came in a tweet by the...

Tunisia's representative in the United Nations (UN) Security Council has stated that despite the decisions issued by the UN, Israel continues to occupy Palestinian territory and inflict injustices on...

Human rights groups have accused Oxford University of "celebrating" a military occupation for politicising figures collated on its website tracking coronavirus vaccine delivery, which excludes Palestinians on Israel's vaccine...

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN OCHA) said Israeli authorities have demolished or confiscated 20 structures owned by Palestinians in Area C of the...

United Nations human rights experts today urged Switzerland to repatriate two Geneva sisters from a squalid camp in north-eastern Syria five years after the girls were allegedly abducted by...

A brief but revealing press statement marked the meeting of US Ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield with the Commissioner-General of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine...

Iran has installed extra advanced centrifuges at its underground uranium enrichment plant at Natanz that was hit by a blast last week, a report by the UN atomic watchdog showed...

The European Union announced on Wednesday that it will continue to fund an education project for Syrian children in Turkey. The project known by its acronym PIKTES — Promoting...

The Palestinian Ministry of Religious Endowments in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday condemned the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA)'s exclusion of religion from its digital...

The West Darfur state, in the far west of Sudan, yesterday declared Geneina a disaster-stricken area and requested urgent humanitarian intervention from the federal government as a result of tribal fighting...

Turkey, Qatar, and the UN have agreed to postpone the Istanbul Conference for the Afghanistan peace process, a joint statement issued today has revealed. The high-level conference hosted by...

MENA region accounts for 88% of executions worldwide in 2020

Syria was today stripped of its voting rights at the global chemical weapons watchdog by member states after its forces were found to have repeatedly used poison gas during...

Turkey has been criticised heavily over the past few years for what some see as a series of foreign policy blunders, from its military intervention in northern Syria to...

Talks between Iran, the US and four world powers aimed at restoring the 2015 nuclear agreement will reconvene next week, senior officials said in Vienna on Tuesday, Anadolu Agency reported. "Progress...

Yemen's COVID-19 vaccination campaign began in government-held areas on Tuesday three weeks after the first shipment from the global COVAX vaccine-sharing scheme arrived in the war-torn country, Reuters reported. Yemen on...

Sudan's foreign minister on Tuesday said she briefed the UN Security Council on the failure of the Kinshasa talks on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) project, Anadolu Agency reported. In...

UN experts today demanded the United Arab Emirates (UAE) provide information about a daughter of Dubai's ruler and release her, two months after the BBC aired a video it said was...

According to a source in Washington, "he Biden administration will look with understanding at the possibility of postponing the elections for some time. Washington would not object to...

Ethiopia is threatening Sudan's national security with its intention to begin filling the Renaissance Dam's reservoir in July, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mariam Al-Sadiq Al-Mahdi, said in a statement...

The Vaclav Havel Human Rights Prize is awarded by the PACE to figures who actively defend human rights in civil society

Ankara filed a complaint against Riyadh at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) over the semi-official Saudi boycott of trading with Turkey, Arabi21 reported yesterday. Reporting the Turkish Sabah newspaper, Arabi21 said that Turkish officials had...

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Yemen yesterday warned that more than one million displaced Yemenis are at risk due to the ongoing fighting in the Marib Governorate....

A member of Fatah's Central Committee is pressuring Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails to call for postponing the upcoming elections if Israel bans them in Jerusalem, Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar revealed yesterday....

The UN nuclear watchdog and Iran on Monday started talks aimed at obtaining explanations from Tehran on the origin of uranium traces at found at undeclared locations in Iran,...

Iran has asked Interpol to arrest a man suspected of carrying out the attack on its Natanz nuclear facility in the name of Israel earlier this month, according to reports. Iranian...